Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] they [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 On Oct. 25 France announced the suspension of aid , and the last French troops were withdrawn on Oct. 30 in spite of calls from the opposition for them to remain to prevent more killing .
2 This is all the more necessary because , although some facilitating devices such as information agreements may be made the subject of prohibitions , the majority of them appear to escape these .
3 Solihull teachers were strongly so , but it should be recalled that only a relatively small proportion of them had had any direct experience of the process .
4 Nevertheless they do represent different ways in which psychotic vulnerability can manifest itself and reference to them helps to provide some clues as to which of its aspects might mediate any association that exists with creativity .
5 They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise .
6 A lot of them failed to reach that desirable goal .
7 And a lot of them do waste that time .
8 ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play .
9 Erm they were talking about moving it and everything there was a big fuss about it last week well now there 's a fuss about they want to pull all the trees down around it as well .
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