Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [prep] them [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , talking to these teachers , I ca n't for the life of me see what motive any of them can have . |
| 2 | ‘ One day one of them will take over from me . |
| 3 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 4 | The spread of population , the numbers of visually handicapped pupils in a particular area and the range of educational provision available to them will influence the way in which the advisory service is organised and implemented . |
| 5 | We , however , are required to crouch in the heather , and so the attention is drawn through necessity to the things sharing that heather with you , in case any of them might take a fancy to your bottom and jump into your pants . |
| 6 | My father would rage and storm , not so much at my mother as to her , and against Helen and Pat in their absence , but in the end neither of them would say anything to either of my sisters . |
| 7 | He could n't mean she belonged to him — that would be the last thing either of them would want — but the predatory gleam in his eyes said differently , and an involuntary spark of anticipation was born deep inside her . |
| 8 | As for the countryside , the main complaint of the wage labourer was of underemployment and at certain seasons of the agricultural calendar many of them must have wished they did not have time on their hands . |
| 9 | Bank loans and , particularly , credit cards may account for a much greater volume of spending than the total debt outstanding on them might suggest . |
| 10 | There was no way either of them could have worked out what was going on . |
| 11 | I 've got five or six people here who have been water-skiing all their lives , and there 's no way any of them can do it . ’ |
| 12 | Although bureau primarily exist to simply output your files direct to bromide or film most of them will make sure that the output is what you were expecting before they send it back . |