Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them fear he 's now deliberately avoiding them . |
| 2 | And you know with huskies , if one of them drops dead , the rest of them eat him . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | they have a tendency to open them make them wider apart |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The sheer numbers of them make it spectacular although there are no huge centrepiece fireworks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Many of them say they 'd like rather more variety . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Most of them say they 've learned from the experience . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of them say they have lost £1,000 in revenue since the scheme was implemented . ’ |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Some of the wise men say it is not painting , some of them say it is . |
| 16 | ‘ You are not going to have them say you are some kind of dickhead . ’ |
| 17 | These proud people who carry all their possessions with them pity us for our rooted existence in cities . |
| 18 | I wo n't let a one of them touch you again . ’ |
| 19 | His main concern is that although eight million people in the UK have the herpes virus , only half of them realise they are infectious . |
| 20 | Mythological stories about them suggest they are necessarily seen in this simplistic way to reaffirm to ‘ real polises ’ that it is they who are the true inhabitants of the pragmatic world of conflict and action . |
| 21 | When you send them send them Parcel Class but insure them for the top amount , |
| 22 | The school 's Head Master fears that if they were forced to make alternative arrangements , many parents could n't to give them send them there . |
| 23 | And that 's why we do n't make money on carriage forwards cos we do n't sell carriage forwards for the positive reasons , we say , well if they do n't want them send them back , or if they 're damaged send them back . |
| 24 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 25 | Hey we 're going out and be , we we 're going to have them build us one , I mean er my intention is I might get Stuart or somebody to put the bricks at the bottom . |
| 26 | IF Baroness Thatcher is feeling just a teensy weensy bit smug at the news that the Tories are in such a mess that a high proportion of them want her back as leader , well who can blame her ? |
| 27 | ‘ After chapel we used always to go down there and watch them battle it out , ’ he says . |
| 28 | There are such men in this city , and even to see them , never mind to touch them or have them kiss you , or see them just before dawn , or to have them as one of your dear friends , is one of the great pleasures of our life , and it is commoner than most people think . |
| 29 | I do n't know how many vote with their feet in going elsewhere , but few of them challenge us at home . |
| 30 | I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it . |