Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 2 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
| 3 | If an employer does not prevent them availing themselves of the opportunity to learn business secrets how can he later seek to restrain an employee from using the same information . |
| 4 | What 's probably happening is that you are trying to tell them you are annoyed but also saying you still want them to like you at the same time . |
| 5 | then go on to the ones you marked as " different " and listen to them read one after the other . |
| 6 | Erm , if erm , if one of them contradicted me in the class , I burst into tears , I think you 'd think something was seriously wrong with me , would n't you ? |
| 7 | He had a feeling that Maidstone mentioned them to vindicate himself in the eyes of others . |
| 8 | Though they are what is commonly called our enemies , yet , if they make proper use of what I have laboured for , let them enjoy it with the blessing of God . |
| 9 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
| 10 | Michelle , who was taking the drug Epilim , said at her home in Whyteleaf , Surrey : ‘ None of them told me about the risk of having a handicapped baby . |
| 11 | I I like writing them writing them on the nodes like that . |
| 12 | Anyone who had drugs on them dropped them to the floor . |
| 13 | In return she showed them the Daimler and invited forty of them to visit her on the Dockers ' yacht , Shemara , where pink champagne was served amid costly fitments which were often detailed in the newspapers . |
| 14 | Oh the peedie ones did it four or five or six acre you cut the and bag it the barley to them put it in the er the bagger on the machine you see . |
| 15 | And handed them handed them to the people . |
| 16 | ‘ Now that we have killed off Rex and Woodbum , we seem to have killed off our chances of having them lead us to the Presley hoard . ’ |
| 17 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 18 | We 've got to persuade them to invest in us — to make them see us as the means by which they can topple the Seven . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Then tomorrow , you can take it down to the oven and tell them to put it at the bottom , so it -cooks really slowly , to keep it moist . ’ |
| 20 | Naturally the two officers protest that their girls are different , but Alfonso persuades them to put it to the test . |
| 21 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 22 | Rather more than 20 years ago , over a lunch in Staff House , I was persuaded by three eminent lecturers of this University to allow them to nominate me for the Council of Consumers ' Association . |
| 23 | I know it sounds mad but I suddenly had an image of them doing it on the carpet in the office like a couple of dogs . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If they do n't do it in training I ca n't see them doing it on the park . ’ |
| 25 | Now why , what made them take it to the stage |
| 26 | ‘ I knew that they were n't students and I began to resist but one of them hit me over the head with a gun . |
| 27 | George , at one stage , tried to get up , but one of them hit him over the head with his rifle . |
| 28 | I see 'd them sell them in the streets lots of times but I ai n't never tasted them like . ’ |
| 29 | It would be professionally improper for them to interest themselves in the social or leisure activities of their pupils ; and it would be unsuitable to their professionalism if they were involved in purely supervisory or ancillary duties , which are carried out , where necessary , by unqualified assistants . |
| 30 | He gave the impression of telling the detectives what had happened and asking them to believe it on the authority of his charm and personality . |