Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] they [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Shamen are a tad pissed off that nobody seems to write about them without dropping in a few drug references . |
| 2 | The Shamen are a tad pissed off that nobody seems to write about them without dropping in a few drug references . |
| 3 | ‘ Service Quality Development are happy to work with them in determining the service needs of the branch network and to encourage feedback through regular service surveys . ’ |
| 4 | Children can find out these differences and we might encourage them to talk about them by posing such questions as : |
| 5 | I tend to get to hear about them from seeing the Post Office . |
| 6 | Julia let them haul her up and stuff extra pillows behind her head , but the pain sharpened and she was hard put to it not to swear at them for hurting her . |
| 7 | You will need to cooperate with them without losing the initiative . |
| 8 | Such a treaty would help reassure the Government of India that , within what is possible under the laws of the United Kingdom , we are anxious to co-operate with them in dealing with terrorism . |
| 9 | ‘ They were pretty threatening but we tried to reason with them by offering free meals to children . |
| 10 | It 's quicker for me to clear up/wash up and so on than to argue with them about doing it . |
| 11 | She sighed heavily as she realised that either she had to confess or , much worse , she was going to have to continue to lie to them by inventing , when asked , things which she and Cara had done together while touring Czechoslovakia . |
| 12 | There s not much in the way of creation to be done against a blanket defence … all you can do is try to get behind them by getting it wide … which we did until the final ball . |
| 13 | Often the vendors and the purchasers each appoint a firm of chartered accountants to act for them in determining the relevant amount and reference to a third accountant occurs only if the two firms can not agree on that amount . |