Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gives me the opportunity to see God in young people and watch them develop in their faith in the short time that they are here . |
| 2 | And do it now rather than them pounce on you later and accuse you of hidin' her . |
| 3 | Most of the councillors seem to be hand in glove with each other ; you ca n't make any one of them speak to you , let alone give an interview . ’ |
| 4 | In the absence of official sanction , however , the ground already covered in the development of school-based consultative in-service programmes may itself offer the wanted training opportunities for special needs post-holders and those who could give them support in their turn . |
| 5 | Some of them wait for it — Tory names ! |
| 6 | Have , in the classic phrase of Raymond Chandler , a man come in the door with a gun , make your detective them run for his life or chase the gun-toting man . |
| 7 | As we saw when considering the interactionist critique of positivism , there are two particularly important reasons for this : first , the processes of definition and application produce the data specifying the nature of , and the trends in , crime , and the characteristics of criminals that are subsequently used by criminologists to construct their theories and explanations ; second , these processes of definition and application have consequences for the meanings , implications and justifications that those ‘ labelled ’ by them give to their own actions . |
| 8 | Two of them look at their leader , waiting for it to say something suitable for this historic occasion . |
| 9 | ‘ There were all these groups or whatever , and none of them look like us on TV . |
| 10 | Mrs Prentiss , the wife of the American consul in St Pierre wrote a letter home : ‘ The smell of sulphur is so strong that horses in the street stop and snort , and some of them drop in their harness and die of suffocation . |
| 11 | But , she thought , I might be called back and I would not know what to say , I do not want to go amongst mad people , to have them stare at me , to see the unpleasantness of a lot of geriatric cases . |
| 12 | He was damned if he was going to let any of them know of his present predicament . |
| 13 | He watched them disappear from his view , his father still waddling along with that bloody basket . |
| 14 | The loss of our semi-professional status would bring about a mass exodus of players as many of them rely on their match fees to bolster dole cheques . |
| 15 | Tens of millions of people take part in its ceremonies from time to time , or have neighbours who do , and many of them rely on it to uphold and promote traditional English values . |
| 16 | It 's in verse eleven , as a result of the anguish of his soul he will see it and be satisfied , he 'll be satisfied with the rescue operation , he 'll be satisfied with what he has accomplished , Isaiah says , and Jesus uses , perhaps , even more extravagant language , there in Luke fifteen , when he says in verse six , in verse mm mm , in verse seven , when he comes home with that sheep that he 's rescued with that lost to but it now has been found , when he brings it home he says there wi , he says he calls together his friends and his neighbours , saying to them rejoice with me ! |
| 17 | The Hebrew scriptures contained prescriptions that enforced a separateness and particularity of the Jewish people , in tension with the universalism of monotheistic belief : if there is but one God , he is Lord of all peoples , even if some of them feel after him more coherently than others . |
| 18 | In contemporary English neither *Most enzymes can not make a reaction to occur nor * Raising the temperature of some solid and liquid compounds causes them decompose into their elements are possible . |
| 19 | Some of them smile at him , and wave . |
| 20 | Guest houses , inns , farmhouses and B&Bs have all been improving in the same way as the rest of the industry , so that the best of them compare in their own category with say , AA red star hotels . |
| 21 | But most women would prefer not to trust to that special ‘ glow of happiness ’ to give them sparkle on their special day . |
| 22 | You can then watch them go through their larval and pupal stages before finally hatching out as adults . |
| 23 | Go up them go up them |
| 24 | Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on . |
| 25 | If any of them apply to you , it is possible that you are deficient in the vitamin , mineral or trace element indicated . |
| 26 | Excessive alcohol , obesity , lack of exercise and stress are other important factors and if any of them apply to you , you 're at risk . |
| 27 | Midnight tensed , seeing James Lambert try to push between ; seeing two of them turn on him . |
| 28 | It must be like loving someone from afar only to have them turn to us one day , recognizing the love we have held for them and the secret things we have done for them , and returning our love with their own . |
| 29 | I 'm not having them stay at my house , it 's not big enough anyway |
| 30 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |