Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] they [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Every time I got them involved with the story , ’ Hopper explained , ‘ I 'd come back at them and say , ‘ Ha , ha , it 's only a movie … ’ ’ |
| 2 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 3 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
| 4 | I welcome them both to the Board . |
| 5 | I put them all in the dustbin before Susan can decide to keep them . |
| 6 | I put them all in the deep freeze . |
| 7 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |
| 8 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 9 | I congratulate them all on the quiet dignity and courage that they have displayed in recent weeks while vile , vicious and baseless allegations were made by a proven liar . |
| 10 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 11 | Equally unsatisfactory is the decision that Harold Newstead , a bachelor hairdresser living in Camberwell , was libelled by a perfectly accurate court report that another Harold Newstead , also a Camberwell resident , had been gaoled for bigamy ( " I kept them both till the police interfered " ) . |
| 12 | I reminded them both of the force of ancient ceremony , the ley-lines of hymeneal fortune , the gilded corrugations of the sacred text . |
| 13 | See I do I get them right in the class |
| 14 | But I think I resented them both for the same reason , that is , that something was happening to me , or rather to my body , which was completely outside of my own control . |
| 15 | ‘ But they won through in a dour encounter and I wish them well in the next round . |
| 16 | They were situated in positions which made them visible from the pests on each side . |
| 17 | as their political and moral equals by signing an agreement which committed them all to the same values . |
| 18 | Proposals made by way of change to a deposit copy have a relatively stronger affect against emergence , owing to the lesser public consultation which attends them prior to the enquiry stage . |
| 19 | The blubber which keeps them warm in the water acts as an overly-effective insulator on land , and they can literally cook in their own fat if they are not kept cool . |
| 20 | When have they ever had a reasonable pay deal which puts them level with the private sector ? |
| 21 | SCOTLAND will bid to lift their third Triple Crown in nine years when they travel to Twickenham on Saturday week with the same line-up which did them proud in the 20-0 victory over Wales . |
| 22 | The realisation that this is a racist society , a society which wishes them dead for the colour of their skin , accentuates their loneliness , and their isolation in turn makes it harder for them to fight against racism . |
| 23 | Durham revival ended with an 18–12 defeat at home to which left them third from the bottom of Division Four North . |
| 24 | With your wonderful knowledge of the Bible , Mr. Deputy Speaker , you produced the Lazarus motion which revived them all from the dead and they eventually passed on their way through the House . |
| 25 | Area 7 champions Royal Berkshire had to work had for their 3–0 victory over Riverside , Chiswick , which makes them unique in the event with maximum points from four matches . |
| 26 | It is indeed a nice irony that two of the most famous characters in Scottish history , Mary and Knox , were united in their preference for countries other than Scotland , and that it was Elizabeth 's eventual , reluctant decision to have Mary executed , and her earlier unrelenting hostility to Knox , which catapulted them both into the realm of Scottish fascination and Scottish legend . |
| 27 | Then further on you found them high in the trees where the water had swept them . |
| 28 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 29 | From large carpet areas to those tricky areas which you may have thought impossible to get really clean — the Steamatic enables you to clean them all with the minimum of fuss . |
| 30 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |