Example sentences of "they and [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , a Norfolk farm boy ‘ used to spend a lot of time ’ with his labouring grandparents : ‘ a dear old cupple , and I was very fond of them and they of me , and would never hear anything wrong of me ’ , although he was already in trouble with the authorities . |
| 2 | Shanti and Chris have stayed with them and they with us ; in fact we have added four more people to our extended family ! |
| 3 | He held his audience all through his speech you felt he was in touch and in sympathy with them and they with him . |
| 4 | Even the fishermen knew that cormorants must be left to do as they please : you share your catch with them and they with you . |
| 5 | He spoke to them and they to him of books and girls and other things . |
| 6 | The tree houses them and they in return protect it from creepers and other crawlers . |
| 7 | oh yeah the people , matey 's walking along and he 's going like this and he 's pulling it as he 's doing it , he says and he 's doing it in proper time like that , but with one arm going he 's twiddling it , he 's doing it , he says no my feet are exactly like that , very effective but you can actually get fined for loosing them , you have to pay for them and its like a real , shooting sticks as well , you do n't tend to carry erm , these pay sticks you carry them like the old shooting sticks , the old you know ? |
| 8 | I told the group a story , to keep them entertained , to laugh preferably and not to weep , hiding reality from them and myself with metaphor and rhythm , my face without makeup is vulnerable out on the street . |
| 9 | There was no elasticity in them and nothing at all of the swelling sap , rising around him . |
| 10 | Obviously nothing in what the parties may write binds them and nothing in what the parties write confines the boundary of their independent review . |
| 11 | Fires set to control weeds on degraded pastures also spread , particularly to selectively logged areas as in Para , Brazil , as the gaps left have tracks connecting them and plenty of fuel : such have had devastating effects in Borneo during seasonal droughts ( see section 2.2.2 ) . |
| 12 | I firmly believe that if we study animals as animals including their struggles with their internal and external environments , we can liberate them and ourselves from the obfuscation of terms such as pain and turn instead to definable values . |
| 13 | See them and lots of wildlife ; as you explore Cook Country . |
| 14 | They wanted big increases on mortgage interest tax-relief , less tax for them and lots of help for the building trade and the NHS . |
| 15 | The couple , however , seem confident that the problem is behind them and anyone with a love of the distance can not help but hope they are right , particularly in Olympic year . |
| 16 | But an exchange puts both them and us into a geographical funnel towards the meeting point . ’ |
| 17 | There is then no longer them and us , for the mind has expanded to include them and us in one larger us . |
| 18 | By not uttering a word to the audience , then keeping the stage shrouded in smoke , lit only from the back in lurid purple , orange and red , and reducing the band to shadowy figures looming out of a fog , he put so much distance between them and anybody past the regulation front-of-stage pogoers that attention easily wandered . |