Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] they in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I tied a wasp to the striking-surface of each of the copper-coloured bells on the top , where the little hammer would hit them in the morning when the alarm went off . |
| 2 | Victory for Old Kingstonians at home to Oxford Hawks , the Peroni South League champions ( 2pm ) , will take them into the Pizza Express while defeat will put them in the South League , which has absorbed the London League . |
| 3 | ‘ If they continually try to buck the system , the system will destroy them in the long run . |
| 4 | Premature babies are more susceptible to illness in the first days of life than full-term babies , and being fed exclusively on breast milk can help them in the fight against infection . |
| 5 | So you your Mam could shove them in the oven and roast them for you , take your own bucket . |
| 6 | Zoshchenko could caricature them in the 1920s , but by the 1930s it became too dangerous to ridicule what had solidified into a standardized bureaucratic mode of oppression . |