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

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1 Before the war she had gone out with those fishers and watched them spear their quarry by torchlight in the early hours of the morning .
2 More significantly , it counterpoised the acquisition of land by the church — ‘ whereby the services which are due from such fees [ i.e. freehold ] and which were provided from the beginning for the defence of the realm are unjustifiably withdrawn and chief lords in respect of them lose their escheats ’ — with the good of the realm , for which the present ban is imposed .
3 If climbers hugged themselves in delight in the knowledge that they had the monopoly on daft , death-defying behaviour , their hearts must have sunk to see people above them launch themselves off cliffs , strapped to a parachute .
4 Some of them fear he 's now deliberately avoiding them .
5 And you know with huskies , if one of them drops dead , the rest of them eat him .
6 Yeah , she gave me a Crunchie and I thought I bet it 's poison so I broke it in half gave them a bit , watched them eat it , gave it five minutes and then eat mine !
7 Then the fore and hind wings , bending under the additional stress of the turn , beat against one another making an audible rattle that you can easily hear as you sit watching them make their circuits over a pond .
8 The most interesting thing for me was walking alone and quietly in the forest and listening to the birds singing , watching them make their nest and feed their chicks .
9 they have a tendency to open them make them wider apart
10 The diversification of the sciences and the theoretical changes within them make it extremely difficult to locate a unique set of principles by which harmony could be guaranteed .
11 The sheer numbers of them make it spectacular although there are no huge centrepiece fireworks .
12 Poppa says I can go to London or Paris and have them make my trousseau if I want . ’
13 Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water .
14 And next they all all three of them mean what size all three .
15 I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling .
16 Erm I know for a fact that Peter who who 's the supervisor erm is a staunch Labourite and er union man , same as Geoff but neither of them push it .
17 I 've never known them change their minds before .
18 Many of them say they 'd like rather more variety .
19 I do n't know , people l I 'm of them say they ca n't afford to pay the kids , and get the food for the kids , and they 'll have to give them chips a couple of , every day of the week or whatever , but th there 's no need for that .
20 Hearing dogs for the deaf have become increasingly popular over the past ten years — now the staff who train them say they ca n't cope with the demand .
21 Most of them say they 've learned from the experience .
22 ‘ Some of them say they have lost £1,000 in revenue since the scheme was implemented . ’
23 But relief workers walking with them say their naivity , their innocence is also their strength .
24 Yeah , but the trouble with it there is that very often you get , you get half of them say we ca n't come Tuesday , but we can come Wednesday
25 Some of the wise men say it is not painting , some of them say it is .
26 ‘ You are not going to have them say you are some kind of dickhead . ’
27 These proud people who carry all their possessions with them pity us for our rooted existence in cities .
28 I wo n't let a one of them touch you again . ’
29 The performance of Castlereagh must attract the envy of many councils and ratepayers alike but I wonder how many of them realise its hidden costs ?
30 His main concern is that although eight million people in the UK have the herpes virus , only half of them realise they are infectious .
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