Example sentences of "[prep] those [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our trained workers find that some of those we care for want to talk through emotional and spiritual issues . |
| 2 | Tragically , more are becoming HIV infected , and many of those we care for with AIDS today were infected as teenagers . |
| 3 | The mathematical techniques for doing this were invented fairly recently , and , unlike most of those we have so far mentioned , were developed from scratch to solve a particular archaeological problem . |
| 4 | Onetti never fully fleshes out his characters since in life we can never really know what lies behind the faces of those we meet or pass on the street . |
| 5 | May the lives of those we meet become richer for having known us . |
| 6 | As a self-sufficient economy we are spared the valuable advice of those we could have done without ; we do employ those we need where local capability does not exist ( medical staff , technicians , etc ) . |
| 7 | However , there are some themes which recur in the evidence of those we consulted and which were first sounded in the Bullock and Swann Reports . |
| 8 | All these species are common migrants which appear in Shetland every year , and I could n't help wondering if any of those we were hearing and seeing may have been feeding in the bushes in my garden a short time before … |
| 9 | Our need for ties of mutual affection — our desire to please , and our fear of hurting , or losing the affection , of those we care about — provides the earliest and one of the most potent sources of control of our deviant motivations . |
| 10 | Luckily he had been one of those we had briefed and he remembered the name . |
| 11 | A. The Green Terror , or Aeguidens rivulatus , is a South American species , but unlike most of those we keep in our tanks it is not an Amazonian fish and comes from more neutral waters . |
| 12 | It would be unwise to come to any firm conclusion , remembering that the majority of those we know about are amongst the sandhills which are constantly being eroded by the winds which expose them , that the eastern part of the island down to Kildalton is largely deer forest which is rarely visited except by stalkers , that there are probably many more cists to be discovered . |
| 13 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 14 | If we replace them by , instead of those we 're just going to have one resistor . |
| 15 | Words about words tend to float off into a mysterious space of their own — though I hope most of those we have used have been firmly pinned down . |
| 16 | Some adjectives — notably superlatives , comparatives , and ordinals — appear to give a grammatically acceptable result when they occur in predicative position accompanied by an article : ( 16 ) Larry 's answer was the rudest Waddington Junior was a third [ e.g. boy caught cheating ] the rat was the other [ e.g. animal which solved the maze ] Analogous sentences with most adjectives would be quite ungrammatical , even though it would sometimes be easy to see what the sentence " ought " to mean , as in the first case of ( 17 ) for instance : ( 17 ) Larry 's answer was the rude [ e.g. out of those we received ] a red coathanger was the noticeable The reason for these facts is , ultimately , that the superlatives , comparatives and ordinals are unlike other adjectives in being inherently restrictive , and always presupposing what we may call an extraction set , within which the restriction is exercised . |
| 17 | We arrived safely on the 19th [ 18 September according to the Hobart Town Courier ] of September in excellent health , and but for the thoughts of those we left behind should also be in good spirits as our prospects here are in many respects cheering . |
| 18 | See the back page for details of those we 'll be attending . |
| 19 | Most of those we can answer straight away . |
| 20 | So out of those we should be able to manage a hundred surely . |
| 21 | But many of those we can imagine , like the abortion solution , are not particularly inefficient , and in any case our instinct suggests that these compromises are wrong , not merely impractical . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that it was exceptionally arduous this year , nut we did survive , whereas many of those we seek to help will not ; and whereas we had bread and cheese to fortify us and homes to return to at the end of those long days , there are millions with none of these things . |
| 23 | When we have one of those we shall have to chop it into little bits to eat wo n't we ? |
| 24 | I mean to my mind you might just as well spend your money on , what are you doing idiot , on a well made piece of furniture today like some of those we 've seen in , in |
| 25 | Get one of those we got in , particularly in favour of those . |
| 26 | It took as long again for their theories to be discredited , despite the fact that almost none of their Hollywood idols would agree that they were the sole auteur of the films they made ; while the greatest weakness of their belief was that the most flawed work by one of their preferred film-makers was of more interest than a major piece by one of those they did not rate . |
| 27 | Moreover , neighbourhood police expressed a sensitivity to the effect which these casual encounters might have on the safety of those they talked to ‘ for you do n't know who 's watching ’ . |
| 28 | There are also very many Christians who , while not wishing to engage in holy war in the literal sense , are perfectly prepared to crush to powder the cultures of those they convert , and millions more who would condemn those of other faiths as false , if not idolatrous , and who would wish to have nothing to do with them . |
| 29 | Especially in the early 1930s , notwithstanding the pay-cuts , police officers in the city had a job secure from redundancy — which was more than you could say for most of those they policed . |
| 30 | They are often already experienced in the needs of those they are looking after , and a close relationship can build up between them and the whole family . |