Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Find some of them insist on finding their own cage and er so you do then have to er have a flexible approach .
2 If undue influence in the full sense is not made out but the element of pressure , surprise , misrepresentation or some or one of them combine with or cause a misunderstanding or failure to understand the documents or transaction , the final question must be whether the grounds upon which the creditor believed that the document was fairly obtained and executed by a woman sufficiently understanding its purport and effect were such that it would be inequitable to fix the creditor with the consequences of the husband 's improper or unfair dealing with his wife .
3 Most of them refrain from spitting at their one-party state — so long , that is , as President Yoweri Museveni stays in charge .
4 It gives me the opportunity to see God in young people and watch them develop in their faith in the short time that they are here .
5 The animals within them are therefore extremely vulnerable , mainly because the populations within them tend to be too small for safety .
6 Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’
7 Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations .
8 Although the tyranny of ‘ promotion examinations ’ has mercifully decreased in the past decade , in many countries yearly and termly examinations and preparation for them account for a quite disproportionate amount of school time and teachers are virtually ignorant of how and why and when to test .
9 And do it now rather than them pounce on you later and accuse you of hidin' her .
10 Then dropping not one , but two balls will be an effective strategy because the gravitational forces acting on them converge toward the centre of the Earth as in Fig. 2.1 .
11 Day after day many of them sit at desks confined by four walls , their eyes glued to figures , their minds hassled by the problems of business .
12 Without doubt , close and loving physical contact between child and mother , or surrogate mother , promotes both physical and emotional well-being in the infant ; while cursory and uncomfortable handling , lack of communication and the signs of " non-loving " implicit in them make for the opposite .
13 Studies of such drugs in food-intolerant patients have shown that a large proportion of them suffer from these minor enzyme deficiencies ( see p 233 ) .
14 It also times the transfer of its eggs extremely carefully so that most of them hatch in the hosts ' nests at exactly the right time .
15 However , to the extent that our assumptions for thinking about them remain within the framework which derives from Weberian thought , we may well not recognize them for what they may be .
16 I step on a few and watch them crack in the middle like a sheet of glass .
17 A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’
18 Most of them correspond with the list your boys drew up at the UN .
19 You know because we often talk to artists and we ask you know how it happened and and most of them say like topsy it just grew er that that there 's no planned career but with you with the tours er set and the album set it it seems to be more of a controlled career with you two .
20 Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts .
21 Note has been taken of these and some of them appear in the panel 's revision .
22 Some of them appear in the above list , for a hard line can not be drawn .
23 At times in the past there must have been tenderness between the members of this family ; the old lady had conceived and given birth to two children , nursed them and watched them grow into adult life .
24 And , as subscribers with decades ' worth of Punch purchasing behind them testify on pages 56–59 , the effect was a bit like the first plunge into an icy pool : shocking at first , but pleasantly bracing once you got used to it .
25 ( David Rockefellers older brother Nelson , who had recently died , had been almost a friend of the Shah ) Would either of them fly to Morocco and tell the Shah that the US government preferred that he did not come to America right now ?
26 Both of them want to be close and both need to repair their inner confusion about what they can allow themselves .
27 A lot of them want to just talk , to feel secure that they 've seen a policeman .
28 I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before .
29 This facet of the culture is perhaps the reason why the British administrative and academic élites have obliquely indicated to the police that they do not consider them fit to be allowed to take charge of police research .
30 He watched them walk towards the car .
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