Example sentences of "they [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose she 'd managed to acquire personal things of Harry 's , his sunglasses , a pen , even a belt , and wore them or carried them with her , as young people do . |
| 2 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 3 | Sports heroes and pop stars provide images for teenagers , who may imitate them and style themselves upon them . |
| 4 | The Spirit who inspired their writing is perfectly well capable of taking some part of them and writing it on our hearts so that it becomes an inescapable pointer to a particular course of action . |
| 5 | ‘ Why are you showing me these documents ? ’ he asked when he had finished reading them and passed them to me . |
| 6 | The Thames was flowing full and furious , the water greedily lapping their feet as if it would like to catch them and drag them under its swollen black surface . |
| 7 | GUIL : We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us , with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke , and a presumption that once our eyes watered . |
| 8 | ‘ There is n't much loving in any of your kindnesses , Jane , ’ the middle-aged hero of John Osborne 's Inadmissible Evidence ( 1965 ) complains to his daughter in a long , unanswered diatribe against the younger generation — a new race of adolescents capable , for the first time , of subduing the earth around them and thinking nothing of it : ‘ not much kindness , not even cruelty , really , in any of you . ’ |
| 9 | The dreams were all in a mess on the top , so I got hold of them and put them underneath me to stop them blowing away ( not that there was any wind ) and hunted through the rest . |
| 10 | Such countries were allowed to buy non-military materials , provided that they paid cash for them and transported them in their own ships ( the " cash and carry laws " ) . |
| 11 | I like to look at them and show them to my guests . |
| 12 | The mind of the human observer is endowed with creative imagination ; this allows the scientist not only to make discoveries about the laws of nature but to tamper with them and exploit them to his own advantage . |
| 13 | When the people in the world awaken to the rights that are theirs , governments will no longer dare to defy them and set them at nought . ’ |
| 14 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 15 | Yes , erm I read up quite a lot of things about keeping pests away , but I do n't dad reads them and tells me about them , but I forget cos they have to go back |
| 16 | Then she took the discarded flowers in her hands , kissed them and touched them to her forehead , and reverently murmured to herself , ‘ Beloved of my heart . ' ’ |
| 17 | He spoke to them and persuaded them with his books and his paintings , through radio and television , by his speeches and his straightforward and trenchant statements to the press about the issues he believed to be so crucial for the welfare of the world . |
| 18 | Eventually I untangled them and muttered something to him about it having been a hair-raising experience … |
| 19 | We will be working alongside the base staff , encouraging them and assisting them in their work with local churches , ministering to the homeless in Hyderabad and working among a gypsy group in the country . |
| 20 | She had seen nothing of them and heard nothing except their horn in the recesses of the forest , a joyous and at the same time a melancholy sound which filled her captors with unease . |
| 21 | The rules of the game are that each person is allowed to turn over two cards and , if they are the same , to withdraw them and place them by their side . |
| 22 | Some person noticed them and hated them for what they were . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |
| 24 | But the patient was okay , it was a false alarm , please thank them and send them on their way . |
| 25 | Get full statements from them and send them on their way . ’ |
| 26 | John Stronge , the zoo manager , then collected them and flew them to their incubators in Belfast . |
| 27 | Why not discover them and weave them into your do-it-yourself material . |
| 28 | One or two books were missing from the study shelves ; perhaps guests had simply borrowed them and taken them to their rooms . |
| 29 | Nurse found them and cracked them between her fingernails the way Smallfry sometimes did when he was made to kneel with his head in her lap , breathing her perfume and savouring the rare closeness of her . |
| 30 | Besides , the Jews inspected the stars by night , turned their eyes towards them and invoked them in their prayers . |