Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] they [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I met them leeward of the middle vehicle , where they lent a hand to tip the wheelbarrow into a stable position .
2 I delighted them once with a return invitation to dine at The Pightle .
3 Not wanting to offend , I gave them a try and ended up almost throwing the box away , but instead I put them aside in a small corner of my studio .
4 I filed them neatly in the waste basket and helped myself to a cigarette .
5 If they are knitting successfully I leave them alone ; if they do n't knit successfully I select them manually to the holding position ( with the holding levers set to knit ) to help them knit .
6 Ralemberg insisted on meeting de Macon first , saying he wished to discuss some secret matter , so I joined them later in a small tavern on the corner of Vintry and La Reole .
7 Realising that the canal is scheduled as an Ancient Monument , I contacted them well before the event and received an application form for consent .
8 One Scottish observer noted that " both parties are angry to a higher degree than ever I saw them even in the Exclusion time " .
9 They are staying in a hotel in Durham and I saw them yesterday in the bar .
10 I bought them just for the bag though .
11 I did not dare risk Pollock and young Duncan Pugh and so I left them firmly on the bench .
12 I found a lens in an old box and I used , I got another two lenses , and I fitted them together in an a tube , I had no tubing but there was an old bicycle at the house and I cut up the frame and put one lens at the one end of the frame and the seat pillar , I used the seat pillar for focusing .
13 ‘ I realise the European Tour will not be too happy but I blame them anyway for the clash of dates , ’ Faldo said .
14 I pushed them away with a shudder , but when I looked up I saw , lying on a shelf opposite , an infant or Cupid carved in black marble .
15 But the ones who went into it professionally , I see them often on the telly advertising things and I do n't really want to do that .
16 They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material .
17 He is not just the Pope of the Roman Catholics but a symbol of human beings striving to create institutions and practices which bring them closer to the ways of God .
18 It was the little amulet which told them most about the girl .
19 There was even a smudgy photograph , apparently taken at a party , which showed them together over the canapes .
20 An Ornaments Rubric included in the 1559 Prayer Book ordered the use of vestments and the alb and cope during the communion service ; and the 1559 injunctions required the clergy to wear the surplice during services , as well as their distinctive outdoor dress which set them apart from the laity .
21 The single-deckers became known appropriately as railcoaches , a name which placed them firmly to the forefront of modern transport .
22 The gentlemen-aristocratic nature of angels with guns is defined by their elegant dress , which relates them directly to the ruling viceregal aristocracy .
23 The use in the emperor 's reply of the expression verba precaria is revealing , for it shows already a tendency to treat precatory words as characteristic of trusts , as something which sets them apart from the dispositions of the civil law .
24 So far as observation and knowledge of the world is concerned , the beliefs of the northern peoples have been dismissed equally by the Russian Orthodox Church and by the Communists as benighted superstition which imprisoned them mentally in a fear of evil spirits .
25 Video is a good medium with which to move them away from the beginner 's preoccupation with individual words to an attempt to follow the general drift of a message .
26 ‘ The speed humps will be built in a special way which makes them less of an inconvenience to buses , ’ said Mrs Standing .
27 I me , well you can never find anything if you got them all over the place !
28 She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large ,
29 She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site .
30 She wiped them away with the back of one trembling hand .
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