Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 2 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 3 | So , whilst they may encourage an atmosphere of informal comradeship and sociable learning , college teachers are not your equals and you should not expect them to treat you as such . |
| 4 | But there 's one one fault really it takes approximately fifteen to eighteen months for them to pass anything like that and that could be one |
| 5 | If we decide er , at each point of the committee meeting I , I think we should be processing any and suggestion forms that procedure owners have received , in a reasonable time , in order for them to process it before that meeting . |
| 6 | I count them put them into little money bags . |
| 7 | Oh that 's erm your objection er was nobody had seen me and you did n't really answer the question clients by coming in to their homes you know , Martin made the comment er that in actual fact nobody had seen them seen them in six or seven years so I thought that was a possibility for a just er oh n maybe not as deep a but nevertheless erm there was a good , good pause er er how did you er come to be with Friends Provident er you , it was good that you asked er er if the wife would be attending the second meeting , that was an important thing . |
| 8 | They must have longed for quiet and solitude , for space to shed their tears in private , or even to vent their anger , but none of them showed it in public . |
| 9 | To ask them to do something about that mess . " |
| 10 | The beer orders did not require them to do anything of this sort . |
| 11 | Well the people who make them sell them for forty P er twenty P rather . |
| 12 | Ask them to send me in some coffee . ’ |
| 13 | Now they may have their own reasons for that and it may be difficult for them to send someone at this precise moment , but I do n't think that they 're necessarily geared up to dealing with the sorts of things that you want them to deal with . |
| 14 | Her parents were still concerned about her and she had asked them to accompany her for this first appointment . |
| 15 | Apart from the physical size of the fish , their territorial requirements make a large tank desirable , and essential if you are going to ask them to share it with other cichlids . |
| 16 | 16.3 Reading takes pupils beyond first-hand experience : it enables them to project themselves into unfamiliar environments , times and cultures , to gain sympathetic understanding of other ways of life and to experience joy and sadness vicariously . |
| 17 | Among the reasons are greater mobility before retirement , which enables them to acquaint themselves with alternative residential locations , and the financial advantages of moving from larger to smaller houses , perhaps in less expensive areas ( Law and Warnes 1976 ) . |
| 18 | Bartering enables them to swap it for other things they need without paying . |
| 19 | It arose most acutely in the United States which welcomed immigrants but also put pressure on them to turn themselves into English-speaking American citizens as soon as possible , since any rational citizen would wish to be an American . |
| 20 | It does n't prevent them being ambitious and idealistic for themselves , or stop them comparing themselves with other students in their class , their school , in other parts of the country or the world . |
| 21 | Even an optimist like Alix found people depressing when they revealed themselves in this manner . |
| 22 | He turned to face her then , his eyes intent as they met hers for one long minute , and she had the strangest feeling that he was trying to look inside her soul . |
| 23 | ( Opposite ) Venomous snakes do not bite their victims — they stab them with open mouths , injecting their venom through hollow teeth in the upper jaw . |
| 24 | Yes and er I er they got me on that and I 'd er seen a bit on it before hand one way or another , but I went to a place and , and asked them if I could er see and er they showed me and explained it , the er the way to er . |
| 25 | They got me in 1979 when Eamonn Andrews hosted the show . |
| 26 | Or , they maybe replacing some of these but they got plenty of these , or they 're replacing some of these but they 've got plenty of these ? |
| 27 | With some , like Tony Jacklin or Susan Hampshire , it is perfectly obvious they got it through hard work in their particular calling . |
| 28 | They had you by your short and curlies the minute they got you into that uniform . ’ |
| 29 | But they got us into this mess , it 's up to them to get us out of it . |
| 30 | Ronni cast him a glance , as they seated themselves at opposite sides of the table . |