Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 2 | Notice that it is customary to indicate the parameters best varied to achieve balance by drawing an arrow through them where they appear in the double balance equations , as done here . |
| 3 | He drew her against him , linking her arm in his as they walked along the track . |
| 4 | My parents once told me that they lived on the Canary Islands for a little while but I do n't think I was born just yet . |
| 5 | They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia . |
| 6 | ‘ Tell them that they waited in the dark for us ? ’ |
| 7 | They would perhaps like to buy it , but they ca n't sell their property and also if they can sell theirs and they look at the cost of the property and they work out how much they 've got to pay for the mortgage then they find they ca n't afford it . |
| 8 | ‘ The guards , they showed the paper to me and they pointed at the photograph and said : ‘ He is with us ’ . ’ |
| 9 | If you start with small frogs , make sure the fish are too small to eat them if they fall into the water . |
| 10 | As far as most Sussex people were concerned , it was probably a struggle which only affected them if they got in the way of one of the opposing forces . |
| 11 | It is usual to have a closing pleasantry , but you should only use them if they add to the letter in a positive manner : Please let me know if I can be of further assistance . |
| 12 | What it basically means is that an extrovert tends to tends to have a wide area of interests but wo n't investigate them as much as perhaps that that deeply , and that includes friends as well , and that includes people around them and they look at the wideness rather than the depth . |
| 13 | The woman handed her what was left of Donald , and Angelica said , ‘ People feed them and they wander into the road … it 's not surprising they get hurt . |
| 14 | The breakers sometimes overturn them and they lie in the sand , with their legs waving , their stiff tails slowly swivelling , in an effort to lever themselves back . |
| 15 | I would birch them like they do on the Isle of Man , and not give them time off for good behaviour . |
| 16 | The more information they have about you before they come through the door , the more comfortable they will feel about that process . |
| 17 | General Lu Han had 180000 troops with him and they lived off the country in the traditional Chinese manner , looting and exporting industrial plant to China . |
| 18 | She looked up at him and they kissed on the lips , this time not frivolously , but full of heat and passion . |
| 19 | He slipped his arm around her and they walked through the park to sit on a secluded seat there . |
| 20 | She found herself searching back to her youth for reasons to explain the blind and selfish obsessions which had taken hold of her since they arrived in the French tropics and she wondered if her father 's ruin and death by his own hand in the Louisiana cotton slump of 1989 , when she was only two years old , was the root cause . |
| 21 | Alain looked down at her as they came into the hall . |
| 22 | They married in June 1789 , and a month later , in despair and rage , he murdered her as they walked in the darkness to the Castle of Comfort Inn . |
| 23 | In a temperature of nearly ninety degrees , Lindsey was glad she had thought to bring a hat with her as they strolled along the palm-strewn promenade , stopping at one of the many bars to drink a refreshingly cold iced lemonade . |
| 24 | His arm tightened around her as they stepped off the kerb again . |
| 25 | Jack Bryson , the chief cameraman , told her as they waited for the director 's ‘ OK ’ to strike the set , a quizzical grin seaming his weather-beaten face . |
| 26 | Eve , picking up on some of Ari 's melancholy without understanding the cause , hugged her as they thundered along the straight , smooth road that led to the city . |
| 27 | A noisy group of young people passed her as they turned into the cinema . |
| 28 | As he fell into step beside her he took her arm , gently guiding her as they turned into the main street . |
| 29 | ‘ Frightfully kind of you , ’ he said to her as they stood by the kerb . |
| 30 | When he conveyed Sam 's request to her as they sat around the table at tea-time , he was bewildered by his daughter 's reaction ! |