Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many more ants would need to go up into space for them to see themselves in perspective . |
| 2 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 3 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 4 | We allowed them to see us at our most absurd . |
| 5 | We will know in advance and will stop them using everything in our legal power . |
| 6 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 9 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 10 | Let everything out into the open and then let them hurt you with it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If climbers hugged themselves in delight in the knowledge that they had the monopoly on daft , death-defying behaviour , their hearts must have sunk to see people above them launch themselves off cliffs , strapped to a parachute . |
| 13 | He also added that Moore had never asked them to forgive her for throwing their lives into grief and chaos . |
| 14 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 15 | Some story about a raid , that was it , them finding ST with a stainless steel jig screwed to his pate , them sticking him in a sack , jig and all . |
| 16 | Then he added , with a sudden burst of frankness , ‘ I reckoned the news would seep out anyway in time and cause them to lose plenty of sleep . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
| 19 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 20 | Most of them applied themselves to their exercise books , their faces contorted with intellectual effort . |
| 21 | His plan for Bearwood ( Fig. 21 ) , executed in 1865–74 for John Walter , chief proprietor of The Times , and included in The Gentleman 's House , is an expression of what Mark Girouard describes as the Victorian ‘ genius for analysis and definition ’ , a genius which led them to classify everything from insects through households to societies . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | then go on to the ones you marked as " different " and listen to them read one after the other . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | In fact she almost expected them to accuse her of causing the conscience-prodding dip into their pockets . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | He had a feeling that Maidstone mentioned them to vindicate himself in the eyes of others . |
| 29 | These proud people who carry all their possessions with them pity us for our rooted existence in cities . |
| 30 | Moreover , although their new jobs were temporary , not all of them regarded them as a " stop-gap " . |