Example sentences of "they on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He conversed with them on all matters connected with their business and had his trouble often many times repeated with the useful wrinkles he gained . |
| 2 | They leave them on all night , even when the shop 's shut . |
| 3 | When they discover a shoal of smaller fish , they will harry them on all sides , driving them into such a dense concentration that the technique has been called ‘ meat-balling ’ . |
| 4 | We never did persuade them , but for six valuable hours we managed to hold them on that course far out into the Flores Sea , until finally they came to their senses , noticed the distant and almost invisible shore , and hurriedly tacked towards it again . |
| 5 | He seemed to resent them on that occasion and will not wear them today . |
| 6 | He seemed to resent them on that occasion and will not wear them today |
| 7 | Is not it important that the Northern Ireland Office should ensure that full information is available to the public on the extent of the deadly arsenal that the terrorists had with them on that occasion , which included AK47 assault rifles and Dsh heavy machine-guns ? |
| 8 | I was just reaching out to get the bottle — I keep them on that sideboard just behind me chair — when I heard this noise … . ’ |
| 9 | Contemporary audiences would have understood that the film appealed to them on that level but were also aware that the tragedy of the film consisted of an ordinary innocent American being hounded by external events and being forced into failure and crime . |
| 10 | within the first-aiders and the , and obviously to try and try and drive it to them on that issue . |
| 11 | And erm oh just put them on that table over there . |
| 12 | And there 's them on that side . |
| 13 | Almost all of them had crude magic swords , whose unsuppressed harmonics on the astral plane played hell with any delicate experiments in applied sorcery for miles around , but Rincewind did n't object to them on that score . |
| 14 | Fathers took pleasure and pride in their sons ' successes , but did not publicly defer to them on that account . |
| 15 | of Stafford , in full county court , faithfully to serve the King in his office of verderer , therefore judgment shall be pronounced on them on that account . |
| 16 | Erm , another reason why I ca n't give you the whole story of course is because then there 'd be no reason to take this baby rather than this baby at the hospital , you know , so their histories are exactly identical , I E nil , erm , nothing individuates them on that account . |
| 17 | But whereas Edouard loved cars for their design , and their beauty , and collected them on that basis , Grégoire loved them for the engines under their gleaming bonnets . |
| 18 | Practical jokes were the order of the day during the making of The Jokers ; everyone played them on each other . |
| 19 | They were arguing about whose fingernails were longest , thinnest and sharpest and thought that the only way to see would be by testing them on each other 's bony arms . |
| 20 | As he put the glass to his lips to wash out the thought , his eye caught the soldierly portraits all around , the Divisional insignia above the mantelpiece , the roll of battle honours flanking them on each side , and he had a sudden vision of the mess walls decorated not with these trumpery monuments to man 's stupidity but with the torn and mangled limbs of countless unfortunates and , in the place of honour , Corporal Byford 's shattered , still bleeding leg . |
| 21 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 22 | They also run various events and shows throughout the year and you can visit them on most days of the year . |
| 23 | They are morally no worse on the whole than the lecherous men who inhabit these tales , and intellectually much superior to them on most occasions . |
| 24 | As they rose upwards into the damp air the site spread out before them on either side . |
| 25 | Before you oil your hands , place them on either side of your partner 's head . |
| 26 | Gon na ask you to do an exercise now er it 'll it 'll take us to four o'clock before we start talking about assertiveness what I 'm gon na ask you to do is in one , two three , one two in two twos and a three I want you to put on paper one side one sheet of paper to sum up all the things we 've done about communication so far today and it 's going to other people on this course , and it 's going to be marked by one of them on this course . |
| 27 | Well I used to the grindstone was in the cart shed , you see , and er I used to turn the handle whilst he ground his knives down and then he 'd take them in the slaughterhouse , after he got them ground , and put them on this stone to get them smooth , to get a fine edge on the knife . |
| 28 | Let's see if we can move them on this year so that they start to think it 's a charity I know I really want to support . |
| 29 | Indeed , she did not accompany them on this stroll along the Western Esplanade to the Dumpton Gap even in their thoughts . |
| 30 | Preceding them on this sett however was Richard Patrickson of Calder Abbey and Thomas Anison , Esquires . |