Example sentences of "they [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people value their group award certificates , such as HNC or HND , highly and wish to display them or present them to prospective employers . |
| 2 | Send me letters here still and I shall ask my new friend Mr ( wall-eyed ) Wood ( prop. ) to sit on them or speed them to another valley by pigeon post . |
| 3 | the ruins of peoples which are still found here and there and which are no longer capable of a national existence , are absorbed by the larger nations and either become part of them or maintain themselves as ethnographic monuments without political significance . |
| 4 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 5 | The Conclusions are circulated very promptly after Cabinet , and up to that time , no minister , certainly not the prime minister , asks to see them or conditions them in any way . ’ |
| 6 | If we now consider the relations he posits between them we find ourselves facing a comparable problem ; although he posits numerous interconnec-tions between the components of social formations , he neither explains how he arrives at them nor describes them in any detail . |
| 7 | Ruth would retire behind her screen to read them and stored them in one of her drawers . |
| 8 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 9 | Poets had found their way over ( and sometimes back , to tell the tale ) ; so had a good number of priests over the centuries , and hermits , meditating on their essence so hard the In Ovo enveloped them and spat them into another world . |
| 10 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 11 | As a change and to provide more nourishment , try pouring yogurt over them and topping them with fresh fruit . |
| 12 | The first such coins were made from electrum from the rivers that flowed down from the Troilus Mountains , but advantage was soon taken of the different status in the traditional value system of the gold and silver components to separate them and use them for different denominations . |
| 13 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 14 | Well obviously they would look after them and keep them in good order , and what have you , so that there was no hold up with them trying to make a wage or whatever . |
| 15 | He placed a little white enamel cup before each of them and filled it with strong black tea . |
| 16 | But he gave much of his time to them and showered them with expensive gifts . |
| 17 | If females are concentrated together then it is much easier for a single male to herd them and defend them from other males . |
| 18 | Simon was convinced that the only way to gain power over his nightmares , to rid himself of them forever , was to defy them and steep himself in further acts of intimidation and violence . |
| 19 | Oh you 'll dro If you write to i If you write to them and drop it in that 's fine then . |
| 20 | The correct policy with respect to them was thus not to abolish them but to subject them to constructive supervision . |