Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean them let's face it one out the three of us should of thought a bit more . |
| 2 | You go into the bedroom , checking the position of the mirrors ; none of them ought to show you to anybody in the bathroom . |
| 3 | 4 to 5 is relatively easy and if someone starts off at 5 they do n't need any persuading at all ( attempts to persuade them may irritate them so much that they start to move to the left ! ) . |
| 4 | The most energetic of them may form themselves into pressure-groups of a not wholly child-centred kind . |
| 5 | A phone call or a letter to them may set your investigations off on a completely new heading and give you further experts whose evidence would be helpful to you . |
| 6 | ‘ These are enormously strong roots and the melding of them may give us an organisation far more formidable than either could be on their own . ’ |
| 7 | The roar of applause when it later rids itself of them may boost its popularity at a critical moment . |
| 8 | Different people will notice different things and some of them may surprise you . |
| 9 | One or two of them may grab your arms while a third gets ready to hit you from the front . |
| 10 | One of them must do it . ’ |
| 11 | To them must go our warmest thanks . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , this suggestion by Rees does contain one useful pointer : if managers are non-altruistic , controls on them must influence their pay in order to affect performance . |
| 13 | This means that each one of them must know what human experience they each must share when it comes to the time of evocation . |
| 14 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
| 15 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
| 16 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 17 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |
| 18 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 19 | The hovering clerk at Hussey 's back was watching them narrowly every moment , as though one of them might elude him when he came to gather them up again . |
| 20 | The heel of one of them might massage his arm or the rough texture of his cheek . |
| 21 | As for the pieds noirs , his attitude was tinged with more than a little contempt : he did not think that " southern types " like them could threaten his regime . |
| 22 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 23 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 24 | He ran across the wet road and over to the hospital entrance before any of them could answer him . |
| 25 | Most of them could express themselves with a lilting eloquence which left the English spellbound . |
| 26 | We will see , in Part Two , how much better stopping them could make you feel . |
| 27 | Two of them could handle it but the other one … |
| 28 | He moved up to kiss her while his hand continued to stroke her aching body , then , when neither of them could bear it any longer , he thrust into her , and she arched back , drowning under wave after wave of mounting pleasure . |
| 29 | If there were enough of them , none of them would dare to pin him down , none of them could claim she was anything special . |
| 30 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |