Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 2 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 3 | Either you stand outside your community , see them as non-Indians see them , which means , often enough , identifying with racist opinion , or you learn to hate people who say these things . |
| 4 | Retreat for marchers fleeing them was blocked by a cordon at the other end of Duke Street , where police also charged the demonstrators . |
| 5 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 6 | A total of 1,681 left-wing guerrillas , representing about 20 per cent of the forces of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , reportedly handed over their weapons to members of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) on June 30 in return for certificates identifying them as ex-combatants eligible for bank loans and training programmes . |
| 7 | Some people had to wait for parents to pick them up . |
| 8 | Ways of maintaining and improving communications include : a ) establishing a management structure within the Partnership , with clear lines of communication into the schools and into employment ; b ) circulating minutes of management meetings to schools and employers so they know what is being discussed and what is being decided ; c ) bringing teachers and employers together at both Partnership and school level to plan , discuss and review the progress of the Compact ; d ) establishing School Compact Teams with regular meetings ; e ) circulating Compact documents , including such things as pupils ' Work Experience reports widely ; f ) holding Open Evenings for parents to brief them on Compact developments ; g ) producing a regular Compact Newsletter . |
| 9 | POLICE are appealing for shopkeepers to help them trace an axe and a sledgehammer thought to be the weapons used in the murder of Liverpool couple Jean Larkin and Garry Pettitt . |
| 10 | It did not take long for engineers to realise they could use more than one microphone , and ‘ balance ’ the music internally . |
| 11 | Pat Nevin 's fifth goal for Rovers earned them three crucial points at Leicester City . |
| 12 | All of them volunteers with nothing but a rudimentary knowledge of psychology and , possibly , their own experience as parents to help them , they grappled with problems that challenged the skills of the best doctors and psychiatrists . |
| 13 | And when the law actually penalises people who inflict punishment outside the law through sheer frustration with its inadequacies , has not the time come for judges to realise they are dealing with real-world situations and sentence accordingly ? |
| 14 | ‘ The British told the soldiers to lay down their arms and gathered the civilians into a church and contacted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to evacuate them , ’ a source said . |
| 15 | However , assuming the properties are significant assets , a full investigation of title is to be preferred to either reliance upon a certificate from the vendor 's solicitors that the vendor has a good and marketable title ( since certificates of title are qualified and their benefit depends upon the status of the firm of solicitors providing them ) or reliance upon warranties and indemnities alone since the purchaser would rather have problems disclosed before the purchase than have to rely upon a right to sue under warranties which will be subject to general limitations . |
| 16 | The small group of riders spied them and altered their course to meet the patrol . |
| 17 | Enormous mossy roofs of houses awaited them , and stables , sheepfolds , barns . |
| 18 | And what sort of activities do they actually engage in ? |
| 19 | Anglian Water Authority refused to attend the meeting of residents in Oakham because of rules preventing them discussing matters that might depress the share price during privatisation , and because there was little information available . |
| 20 | This rent in the tribal fabric was torn wider by Dr Elijah White , Superintendent of Indian Affairs , who presented the Nez Perce with a set of rules to govern them , and demanded that they appoint a head chief . |
| 21 | Students are often uncertain whether they are taking the right kind of notes to help them survive and succeed at college . |
| 22 | If they get there the men plot all kinds of strategies to get them out of such posts . |
| 23 | Carpets , tiles and flooring , the Steamatic helps revive all sorts of surfaces leaving them more hygienic , cleaner and brighter . |
| 24 | Non-abusing parents — mainly women — in the majority of cases stated they had no prior knowledge of untoward sexual behaviour prior to investigation . |
| 25 | It 'll take us a couple of hours to reach them , and at least twice as long on the return , plus whatever time we have to spend getting the patient stable enough to move . |
| 26 | What sort of hours did they have ? |
| 27 | A warning system of whistles tells them when soldiers enter the camp . |
| 28 | First , he advises the user of accounts to read them backwards . |
| 29 | She recognizes cultural and race differences in these patterns , and acknowledges the political limits of programmes to change them . |
| 30 | Only in the case of skills do they actually list what they think are the appropriate elements of learning . |