Example sentences of "they [conj] [vb base] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Wallpaper them or cover them with fabric : felt , hessian , sacking , lining fabric or printed cotton . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | You can align and rotate objects , group or ungroup them or move them to the front or back . |
| 8 | It is more difficult to keep within the powers they confer , to change them or interpret them on a pragmatic basis . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation . |
| 11 | It was suggested that some existing pensioners , who may not have drawn the sum due to them on leaving the Bank , could now claim the sum due to them and donate it to the Fund . |
| 12 | Thomas Buchanan had to hit them and push them to the top of the rock . |
| 13 | Acknowledge encouragement and assistance from them and support them in return . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | so you can go to them and ask them for advice and they ca n't give it , because there 's not that link back to where you know |
| 16 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 17 | Actually my son 's rather disappointed , he was hoping to farm them and train them into a novelty act . |
| 18 | The best way to deal with them is to unbalance them , trip them and throw them to the ground . |
| 19 | We expect the people to be like them and presuppose it in dealing with the people themselves . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had to acquiesce in the seizure of Church plate and in the appropriation of common lands by the nobility , who enclosed them and put them under pasture . |
| 23 | And dried them and put them on the rack again . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He blanched and I would chill and bag them and put them in the freezer . |
| 26 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 27 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 28 | After she had gone upstairs Carolyn collected them and put them in a jar on the mantelpiece . |
| 29 | He even took them and put them in the litter-bin . |
| 30 | I like to look at them and show them to my guests . |