Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the moors O'Hara had endeavoured to summon up Heathcliff , and a gust of wind from beyond the grave had blown the cycle off course and toppled them both into a ditch . |
| 2 | She gave a loud , bitter shout of laughter that made them all stare . |
| 3 | The girls were , however , very much alike : wide-eyed , glossy-haired , with a hunch of shoulder and ease of hip that made them all the sisters they longed to be . |
| 4 | What lends the work a more than merely programmatic cohesion is , I think , the extreme sensitivity of Mason 's ear for harmony : the strangest agglomerations of texture have a vertical consistency in terms of pitch that identify them all as integral parts of the same piece . |
| 5 | Yet , their frame of mind was always streaked with anxiety that caused them both to be forever on the watch . |
| 6 | Following the instructions , I filled my saucepans and kettle with water and set them all to boil . |
| 7 | Now that you have a vague idea what is going on , you could be forgiven for throwing up your hands in disgust and letting them all get on with it . |
| 8 | We all know the well-worn apocryphal stories of Soviet nail manufacturers told to maximize tons of nails produced per man and making them all large in order to do this most easily . |
| 9 | He came out on stage and called them all down to the orchestra pit right in front of him . |
| 10 | When practising a complete and complex system drill it is of course not possible to place all the separate drills side by side and drill them all in one go . |