Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Different people will notice different things and some of them may surprise you . |
| 6 | One of them must do it . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 14 | He ran across the wet road and over to the hospital entrance before any of them could answer him . |
| 15 | We will see , in Part Two , how much better stopping them could make you feel . |
| 16 | Two of them could handle it but the other one … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If there were enough of them , none of them would dare to pin him down , none of them could claim she was anything special . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Masculine intuition , he thought ; these two , perhaps you should n't trust it , but these two between them could stitch me up . |
| 21 | ( 27 ) Not one of them dare support you . |
| 22 | A lot of them used to catch it . |
| 23 | ‘ And the places that knew them shall know them no more . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Any of them would make you a better wife than I could . |
| 25 | However , doing them would make us feel better and re-energize us ! |
| 26 | Even when I said I was family — well , yes , I know it was n't true but it seemed near enough the truth to use to persuade them neither of them would give her away . ’ |
| 27 | And Phoebe was so relaxed that it actually amused her to realise that everyone who saw them would assume they were a boring married couple , English middle-class tourists . |
| 28 | Obviously he had thought that the mere sight of them would frighten her into standing quietly and listening , but he was wrong . |
| 29 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 30 | Reversing the polarity of both thrusters would bring the vessel to a rapid halt ; swapping the polarity of just one of them would let it turn on a sixpence . |