Example sentences of "they as [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the territories were captive , Israel could develop them as its second largest export market ( after the United States ) , with an export value of $800 million annually by 1986 . |
| 2 | As predicted ( UX No 418 ) , the machines are to be manufactured by Minneapolis , Minnesota-based Tricord Systems Inc which will offer them as its K2 series , though Sequent has exclusive distribution rights for NT versions of the systems , which will ship with a ‘ Sequent skin . ’ |
| 3 | Hanson 's head-office managers , however , have no day-to-day managerial role : instead , they fix the business managers ' sights on shareholder returns , and reward or penalise them as their performance varies . |
| 4 | We have held the hands of our gallant fighters and prayed with them and for them as their life 's blood seeped slowly into the dark damp earth of the jungle . |
| 5 | A million families have insolvency hanging over them as their mortgage debts have grown greater than the values of their homes . |
| 6 | Their vestigial hands grope around them as their blind , closed-eyed faces press forwards against a thin film of ectoplasm which seems to shield them from the outside . |
| 7 | More typical , perhaps , were the modest gains of a group of Cheshire archers who divided £8-12-6 amongst them as their share of the proceeds of a silver ship belonging to the Ring of France and seized at Poitiers . |
| 8 | This appealed to them as their grocery listing had been long ticked to exhaustion and their husbands were all unsympathetic pathetics . |
| 9 | Our expectations of teachers have as significant an effect on them as their expectations have on pupils . |
| 10 | The white boys impute an imaginary position of advantage to blacks , which allows them not only to deny the actual conditions of black oppression , but to claim them as their own , in order to justify exclusionary practices which keep blacks ‘ one down ’ and themselves ‘ one up ’ . |
| 11 | Then the habitations fell away behind them as their ascent began between thorn-spattered banks and hangers of oak . |
| 12 | … the men in the café sit transfixed by the flickering local variation in the presentation of opposite viewpoints on every aspect of an instant world through faceless men who have no doubt acquired faces for them as their arch-priests of actualitá that zooms flashcuts explodes to OMO ! |
| 13 | If the girl noticed that he did n't refer to them as her parents she gave no sign . |
| 14 | ‘ Although it 's not so much I who has to please them as my ideas , since a lack of support would hamper or even prevent their implementation — but those I 've already mooted have met with even less resistance than I anticipated . ’ |
| 15 | In fact , I 'm as closely related to them as my mother is , if you think about it , because I share half my genes with my four siblings and my mother shares half her genes with my four siblings . |
| 16 | Well , to clarify , I have a season ticket for Ibrox and I also ‘ support ’ leeds united , but since I see Rangers play every week , I would probably class them as my number one team — this does not mean I do nt like Leeds — its all a matter of prioritising the teams . |
| 17 | You can use them as my brother does , to put pictures of your loved ones in , to remind yourself what you 're working for , personally I find that rather tacky . |
| 18 | Over time we absorb them as our own and the culture shock retreats as we internalize the values and beliefs ( I discuss this in some detail in Chapter 6 ) . |
| 19 | Er I would n't be as generous with them as our landlord was with us . |
| 20 | We realise they are complex and detailed , but we believe it is better to give maximum information at the start of the new system of teaching , and modify them as our needs dictate . |
| 21 | He stood and looked at them sway , feeling a unity with them as his body swayed to the same light breeze . |
| 22 | He bared her breasts ; put his tongue to them as his hands went down to the belt of her skirt , to find that she 'd changed for the trip , and was wearing jeans . |
| 23 | The honour and status of the realm was a matter of concern to the nobility , and Edward 's military humiliations in Scotland were as much an affront to them as his lavishness towards Gaveston and the Despensers . |
| 24 | This was a time of real communion , and it was not long before his parishioners began to think of him , as well as to address him , as Father Brendan rather than as Father McGiff , and he began to look on them as his family , and on Cork , their city , as his only home . |
| 25 | The words echoed like a warning bell in her mind , but she was helpless to heed them as his dark head bent over her , his mouth warm against one nipple , the gentle tug of his lips sending curling fingers of desire deep into the pit of her stomach . |