Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only at the Opéra do they beat time without obeying it ; everywhere else in Europe they obey it without beating it . |
| 2 | It is not true that elsewhere they obey it without beating it , since one beats time wherever choruses are sung . |
| 3 | Now , the recent boom in advanced home computer games has meant that fool boys like me do n't sit at home flicking the channels for blood , guts and gore : they recreate it by playing silly silicon war games . |
| 4 | Additions such as these certainly enrich the idea of the longue durée ; but at the same time they complicate it by broadening the notion of constraint on which it depends and obscuring its relationship with conjonctures . |
| 5 | They usually deal with the situation in one of two ways — they patronise you and try to take control on the assumption that you must need their guidance to do a decent job ; or they undermine you by making obscene remarks and deliberately causing problems . |
| 6 | For 11 years they stopped me from coming back here . |
| 7 | the school are doing nothing , okay what did they do , they stopped the money , yeah , they stopped him from having money , they made him pay money back which I 'm pleased about that he got |
| 8 | They solve it by using some of their numbers as jars . |
| 9 | They criticise me for getting a new curtain or taking a holiday . |
| 10 | They warm them by pressing them against brood patches , areas of skin naked of feathers which a bird may develop specially for the breeding season or have permanently on its breast concealed by the long feathers growing around them . |
| 11 | They caught them by taking statements . " |
| 12 | They amazed us by leaping high out of the water and somersaulting two or three times before nosing beneath it again without missing a beat . |
| 13 | ‘ They stop you from tightening up . |
| 14 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
| 15 | Well , skirmishes over language are a certainly a distraction , they prevent you from pursuing other national goals . |
| 16 | Telephone message forms are even better than a pad as they prevent you from forgetting to ask relevant questions . |
| 17 | feelings such as anger , worry and guilt are only worth having if they provoke you into doing something effective . |
| 18 | They advised him against trying . |
| 19 | Did they see it as working themselves out a job occasionally ? |
| 20 | Do they use it for dating ? |
| 21 | Referring expressions fulfil a dual purpose of unifying the text ( they depend upon some of the subject matter remaining the same ) and of economy , because they save us from having to repeat the identity of what we are talking about again and again . |
| 22 | They blamed her for splitting up the family and on many occasions were abusive to her . |
| 23 | They do anything to avoid choosing , and if events force them to make a choice , they question it by raking over the ashes of the decision until it is dead and cold . |
| 24 | But after extracting the bone from the stream they cured it in jading substances . |
| 25 | They thanked us for coming . |
| 26 | They fined him for doing something stupid |
| 27 | The woman sent her surprise to PCs Rob Barrett and Phil Hogan at Brighton police station a week after they arrested her for stealing shoes . |
| 28 | And this er oh dear what was the name of it , they had a special title for the man that sort of ran the stall as they called it for getting the coal out and he he chose who he wanted to go to work . |
| 29 | They solved it by getting you to leave the bottom half of the Spectrum case attached to the PCB , hardly the neatest of ways around the problem . |
| 30 | she said who do you pay the bill to ? , to I says the post office , well do n't they pay you for having their telephone |