Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 2 | I could read ‘ Nike ’ quite clearly on his trainers until they disappeared one after the other into the Shogun . |
| 3 | In other words teachers and schools will readily seek to improve their practice if they regard it as part of their professional responsibility , whereas they are likely to resist change that is forced on them . |
| 4 | Airdrie 's league status is now threatened by relegation and Falkirk could make matters worse for the club if they take anything off St Johnstone tonight and move closer to the third bottom team , Motherwell , who are only three points above them . |
| 5 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 6 | They would have nothing to do with recognised ‘ sinners ’ such as tax-collectors because they considered them to be immoral . |
| 7 | They declared their hostility to apprenticeship since they regarded it as a delay in ridding the colonies of slavery . |
| 8 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 9 | THE Roux brothers ' former restaurant in Old Bailey , renamed Le Sous Sol after they sold it in 1989 , is in administrative receivership . |
| 10 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 11 | The central figure is the child , Little Nell , who deeply engaged the sympathies of contemporary readers as they followed her through the hardships of her pilgrimage , made in company with the senile grandfather whom she strives to protect , from the London curiosity shop to the sanctuary of a village where her sufferings end in a peaceful death . |
| 12 | He was dressed in a wide-sleeved ceremonial gown of dark silk and a soft hat embroidered with coloured threads partly hid his face from Lan and her brothers as they followed him through the doorway , walking barefoot between their father and mother . |
| 13 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 14 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 15 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 16 | Then she heard all of them , crashing through brush and low branches as they followed her towards the road . |
| 17 | By way of illustration , let us take an example from the development of Newton 's theory that we have considered several times before , and consider the situation that confronted Leverrier and Adams when they addressed themselves to the troublesome orbit of the planet Uranus . |
| 18 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 19 | ‘ The few who decide to stay on board can still attend normal surgeries if they feel it to be necessary , and the likelihood of a real emergency developing in the meantime is pretty remote . |
| 20 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 21 | In his letter to shareholders introducing the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative , JM Chairman David Davies said : ‘ Your Directors are recommending this proposal because they believe it to be in your interests as well as those of the company . |
| 22 | The council have objected to the proposed replacement dwelling because they feel it to be ‘ disproportionate ’ in size to the original building . |
| 23 | His hands dangled over the sides of the wheelchair as they took him to the salon to meet the Bishop . |
| 24 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 25 | And the reps on the holiday co coach when they take you from airport , sometimes say yes and sometimes say no . |
| 26 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
| 27 | North themselves had contributed to Ballymena 's fate when they beat them by runs on Saturday at Eaton Park . |
| 28 | Mind you , some do a double-take when they see me in the flesh . |
| 29 | It squeaked and jingled on its hinges as they swung it behind them . |
| 30 | I tell you what 's nice stuffing if they have it in Ulster Paula , is the chestnut one |