Example sentences of "[prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 2 | Back in Italy , after his departure from Auschwitz and his wanderings through Europe , he found that ‘ the things I had seen and suffered were burning inside of me ’ , and that he wanted to write about them . |
| 3 | And props ; what do you do about them at your audition ? |
| 4 | Or anything about them . |
| 5 | You may have thought I had thrown them away , or merely , forgotten about them , and I was entitled to do either , since you explicitly said I was to do exactly whit I liked with them , that you washed your hands of them completely . |
| 6 | I should think we 're all agreed about them . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Carry on with your own life and forget about them . ’ |
| 8 | Compass errors are an awful nuisance and it is well worth finding out a little about them . |
| 9 | Try talking about them when you talk to your child about growing up , relationships and sex . |
| 10 | And all parents need to know something about them in order to help protect their children from danger , now or in the future . |
| 11 | If you are worried about them , talk to your doctor , midwife or health visitor . |
| 12 | Mythological stories about them suggest they are necessarily seen in this simplistic way to reaffirm to ‘ real polises ’ that it is they who are the true inhabitants of the pragmatic world of conflict and action . |
| 13 | I was n't sure about them once I arrived . |
| 14 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 15 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 16 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 17 | The child sees them and talks about them ; but this does not affect his beliefs . |
| 18 | We said nothing about them |
| 19 | From 1 November 1991 , under the Access to Health Records Act 1990 , individual patients will have the right of access , subject to certain exceptions , to all health information recorded about them . |
| 20 | The Dockerty family have been growing hops since Tudor times and know a thing or two about them . |
| 21 | Repeatedly , he says that to brush a vicious old woman aside like a swatted fly and get on with life is to prove oneself a Napoleon — not Napoleon himself who lost whole armies and forgot about them , but a Napoleon . |
| 22 | What the students want her to do is to give them some basic facts that will enable them to read the novels as simple straightforward reflections of ‘ reality ’ , and to write simple , straightforward , exam-passing essays about them . |
| 23 | His aim is simple : to write a series of commentaries on the novels of Jane Austen which would say everything that could be said about them , from every conceivable angle : |
| 24 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 25 | The terrors which Mr Cash expresses about our future in the community have a familiar ring about them . |
| 26 | Would-be investors would need their wits about them , he said . |
| 27 | ‘ Was it not an instinctive reaction to break and see if you could help them , just in case you had to stop to do something about them ? ’ |
| 28 | This means that only the 20,000 readers of British Standards Institution publications hear about them : so much for public comment . |
| 29 | Advanced societies are distinguished from backward ones by , among many other features , the reliability of the information which can be obtained about them . |
| 30 | If only the markets and the media would get over their obsession with the current account numbers then the Government too could forget about them . |