Example sentences of "they in [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This lesson had been reinforced as far as the railways were concerned each spring from 1918 to 1920 , when urgent orders went out from the highest level to rehabilitate them in order to cope with the influx of vital foodstuffs and fuel to the towns . |
| 2 | Consider a fictitious part that might be made on them in order to go through the network . |
| 3 | And not for Descartes either , who expelled them in order to concentrate on the immediate mechanical causes of natural phenomena . |
| 4 | As Pawley and Syder point out , the number of such formulaic or composite expressions runs into very many thousands and the ability to apply them in use accounts for the fluency of the native speaker . |
| 5 | From the extracts to which I have ventured to refer it is clear that equity would have been unlikely to have considered that there was any duty upon the creditors and their solicitors to do more than they in fact did in the circumstances of that case . |