Example sentences of "[prep] they and [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have something of the character and purpose of propaganda about them and they therefore need cautious exegesis , but they at least manifest the king 's view of his subjects ' expectations and in doing so reveal the model to which he felt he should conform . |
| 2 | These secondary resources are so abundant , however , that competition rarely arises for them and they thus constitute a reserve when primary resources are few . |
| 3 | In those areas people can see what Labour councillors are doing for them and they only have to look at what Labour councillors are achieving locally and they will transfer their votes to labour for a national election ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’ |
| 6 | On the one side , the callers : individuals who have been deluded into believing that the prime function of a national government is to look after them and who therefore itemise their personal miseries in public ( unemployed , house repossessed , eldest son unable to claim benefit , one leg ) before asking the politician : ‘ What I want to know is , what you going to do for me ? ’ — for all the world as though asking a pretty sharp question . |
| 7 | His wife , Aunt Ann , was kept heavy with child most of the time , but she lost most of them and they only had the four . |
| 8 | There was the sound of a car behind them and it suddenly became very light . |
| 9 | But they had all their equipment with them and they just stood on the deck and underneath below deck were the people who rowed the boats over . |
| 10 | I told him that I did n't mix with them and it never came into my life or my conversation . ’ |
| 11 | But I 'm not very well with them and I just think they 're terrible . |
| 12 | The first thing they will then discover is that all the other grown-ups in the room tower above them and they actually have to crane their necks to look at their faces . |
| 13 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 14 | I think it 's true to say that we give it to them and we also drink it ourselves . |
| 15 | ‘ Piss orf , ’ I hissed at them and they calmly turned away and continued down the street , convinced I really was a genuine cabby . |
| 16 | Some people , all you need is one look at them and you just know their feet are going to smell . |
| 17 | The er his report has gone to the policy group it 's been talke discussed by them and it now goes to the policy advisory group . |