Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case . |
| 2 | If they know nothing upon the question , is that nothingness still to be respected ? ’ |
| 3 | I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl . |
| 4 | He may have shown indifference with his remark that Christians need not be ashamed if they knew nothing of the number and properties of the elements . |
| 5 | Mrs Anne Lennox , whose husband , Sqn Ldr Garry Lennox , was shot down and killed over Iraq , said that the three RAF widows would have to undergo ‘ demeaning means tests ’ years from now if they wanted something from the fund . |
| 6 | I could read ‘ Nike ’ quite clearly on his trainers until they disappeared one after the other into the Shogun . |
| 7 | ‘ Having decided to make it a musical , ’ wrote Alexander Stuart in Films and Filming , ‘ William Sterling should have had his team work on the songs until they were really worth including until they added something to the tale . ’ |
| 8 | The definitions are , at this early stage of our knowledge of Myrinian culture , valuable in themselves , not only because they reveal something of the inadequacy of our own language , but because they throw some light on to the mysteries of an alien culture . |
| 9 | I 'm sure you can appreciate that people are wary about big-city developers coming in and turning everywhere upside-down because they know nothing about the area . ’ |
| 10 | At first she had complained to Aggie , saying they were stupid because they taught nothing but the abc and counting , and that most of the time was spent singing hymns and listening to stories from the Bible . |
| 11 | ‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’ |
| 12 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
| 13 | As they contribute nothing to the signal , it would seem to be advantageous to remove them from the fountain . |
| 14 | But Araminta is given a curious grace of movement and a gift for surprising which , as they owe nothing to the intellect , must have been excessively difficult to achieve . |
| 15 | This mixture of fish gets on fine in my tank , except when a week after buying them , the Rainbows spawned which caused chaos as they pushed everything to the other end of the tank . |
| 16 | ‘ There was no Albert Bridge then , ’ recalled Ben Bellaser , ‘ to span the river and ride over the ancient town with its oppressive grandeur , and the moon was rising and lighting up the shore and houses as they rose one over the other in terrace fashion against the dark blue starry sky ’ . |