Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] they [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are pruned back and wire can be attached to the branches to shape them into any design you want . |
| 2 | Kate 's voice was full of warm concern as though some conspiracy held them near each other . |
| 3 | The shame of it is we have the capacity to provide them with that peace but we 've decided it is n't worth it . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Goering and Ribbentrop keep bodyguards to protect them from each other . |
| 6 | Yesterday her husband Alan Atkinson , 47 , called on Darlington Council to move them to another house . |
| 7 | Meetings , all companies have them in some way one human being companies . |
| 8 | Their Citizen 's Charter spokesman Brian Wilson said : ‘ Ofwat 's failure to deal firmly with the greed of the privatised water companies leaves them with little credibility when alleging a need for huge further increases . |
| 9 | BSDI 's motion to dismiss , which makes significant use of the Xerox/Apple precedent , claims USL 's failure to sue them for any patent , trade secret or copyright infringement , or even allege such a violation , taints their case . |
| 10 | Even crystal beads , whose actual source is unknown , but whose type of geographic distribution places them with this group , has a similar fall-off with a peak at Sleaford . |
| 11 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 12 | Before she could break away one arm had snaked round her shoulders , pulling her towards him and crushing her face against his chest , then his dark head was obliterating the light , his hot lips seeking hers and to her shame finding them without any difficulty . |
| 13 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 14 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |
| 15 | The expression " breach of warranty " is often used in disputes about deferred consideration , when vendors are said in the agreement to " warrant " that the profits reach a specified figure , and the purchasers seek a repayment from the vendors to compensate them for that loss , in most cases calculated on a pre-agreed formula : if the profits exceed the specified figure , the vendors may be entitled to additional consideration . |
| 16 | Makarenko describes them in this way : |
| 17 | The second is that it is not the right allocation of available resources to use them for this patient . |
| 18 | The main reason for this lack of use appears have been uncertainty regarding the potential of such a source , a small number of companies indicated that cost was a factor deterring them from this type of information . |
| 19 | The distribution system of the library suppliers gives them in this sense a considerable advantage . |
| 20 | Wales had believed they were playing with the malevolent elements in the second-half , Armstrong 's kick disabused them of that notion . |
| 21 | ‘ Normally we do n't like people to see them at this stage . |
| 22 | Franks led them through some swing doors with a flourish and into another corridor , explaining that normally he would not waste money by taking them to a full editing suite . |
| 23 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 24 | The thing that I object to is that many old people and the disabled relied on taxis to get them into that area , and I would say that Hackney Carriage vehicles should be allowed in . |
| 25 | Stations throughout these areas invariably have their quota of migrants lying on the platforms waiting for trains to take them to another instalment of toil . |
| 26 | It is also possible that the tribal tattoos which Savage Orc Shamans paint onto the Orcs ' bodies protect them in some way . |
| 27 | They all knew that they had to go on fighting , and be strong for their children , and Mr Edwards commended them for that strength . |
| 28 | There are few caves in this part of the world today , and there is no record of snowy owls entering them at any time . |
| 29 | Many more women sought separations after the passing of the 1886 Act , which allowed them to do so on grounds of the husband 's unwillingness or inability to maintain , although in practice the legislation provided them with little material assistance . |
| 30 | And in the majority of those cases , that is a transient problem , and teacher assistance needs to be at a level of , of general support to get them over that period . |