Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] they [prep] " 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 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 . |
| 4 | Ivory tower allergists discount reactions to food unless an IgE mechanism has been proved , but denying them or attributing them to hypochondriasis is a sign not of scientific superiority but of a head in the sand mentality . |
| 5 | Some furnishings , pot-holders and ornaments have a very strong-smelling varnish coating , particularly cheap bamboo products with a glossy surface If you have any items of this sort , banish them or put them in an airtight container . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Wallpaper them or cover them with fabric : felt , hessian , sacking , lining fabric or printed cotton . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Canvassers for the main parties report ‘ white-hot indifference ’ mingled with ‘ raging boredom ’ as householders slam their doors on them or attack them with peashooters and water pistols from upper windows with a degree of commitment to the democratic process which experienced observers described as ‘ unprecedented ’ and ‘ profoundly conducive to thought ’ . |
| 10 | You can align and rotate objects , group or ungroup them or move them to the front or back . |
| 11 | It is more difficult to keep within the powers they confer , to change them or interpret them on a pragmatic basis . |
| 12 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
| 13 | They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli … |
| 14 | I 'll tell you what else you can do ; you can make half a dozen or so of those currant buns of yours and take them with you on Saturday as a kind of present for the lady . ’ |
| 15 | He held both her hands in his and brought them to his lips . |
| 16 | The man takes my hands in his and places them within the box and around the point of life . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ He used to buy slimming magazines for me and put them in my bag , ’ remembers Victoria , who lives in Manchester . |
| 19 | Lie down with me and cover them with my blanket . ’ |
| 20 | You will take my dyes , my remedies , my secrets away from me and use them for others . |
| 21 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
| 22 | I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about . |
| 23 | I took your violets home with me and have them in a vase in my room , and Mrs Gracie the housekeeper ( who owns the pug ) takes them out at night as she says they poison the air when one is asleep . |
| 24 | A corollary of this is that such industries are far from simple to understand and hence they demand experts both to run them and to explain them to the general public , e.g. microelectronics , nuclear stations , oil refineries , etc . |
| 25 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 26 | Ruth would retire behind her screen to read them and stored them in one of her drawers . |
| 27 | Thomas Buchanan had to hit them and push them to the top of the rock . |
| 28 | In May papal backing was given to her conditions for return ; two legates brought letters urging the younger Despenser to assist the reconciliation of the king and queen , virtually a request for him to abandon the court , but they got no further than Dover where the king interviewed them and threatened them with death if they dared to publish the pope 's letters . |
| 29 | Acknowledge encouragement and assistance from them and support them in return . |
| 30 | Parents may need to sit with their children during this learning phase to encourage them to stay seated and to talk to them and distract them with stories and play . |