Example sentences of "they [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some furnishings , pot-holders and ornaments have a very strong-smelling varnish coating , particularly cheap bamboo products with a glossy surface If you have any items of this sort , banish them or put them in an airtight container . |
| 2 | You can align and rotate objects , group or ungroup them or move them to the front or back . |
| 3 | It is more difficult to keep within the powers they confer , to change them or interpret them on a pragmatic basis . |
| 4 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
| 5 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 6 | A corollary of this is that such industries are far from simple to understand and hence they demand experts both to run them and to explain them to the general public , e.g. microelectronics , nuclear stations , oil refineries , etc . |
| 7 | It was suggested that some existing pensioners , who may not have drawn the sum due to them on leaving the Bank , could now claim the sum due to them and donate it to the Fund . |
| 8 | I gave Becky to them and lowered myself into the water . |
| 9 | Thomas Buchanan had to hit them and push them to the top of the rock . |
| 10 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 11 | The case manager passes the reports to the lawyer who completes them and passes them to a supervisor . |
| 12 | Actually my son 's rather disappointed , he was hoping to farm them and train them into a novelty act . |
| 13 | The best way to deal with them is to unbalance them , trip them and throw them to the ground . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll leave the plans on the desk , ’ he said , rolling them and replacing them in the tube . |
| 15 | Zack took them and passed them to a man in the passage behind him . |
| 16 | Where were all those young hopefuls , who even in their crippled state had left death behind them and saw nothing but a future ? |
| 17 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 18 | And dried them and put them on the rack again . |
| 19 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 20 | After she had gone upstairs Carolyn collected them and put them in a jar on the mantelpiece . |
| 21 | He blanched and I would chill and bag them and put them in the freezer . |
| 22 | He even took them and put them in the litter-bin . |
| 23 | It was alleged that he touched the boys ' genitals , put his arm around them and kissed them on the lips . |
| 24 | By that time her clothes were dry , and we brought them in and I ironed them and hung them in the sun again , this time to air . |
| 25 | Ledwith and Crothers were described as window cleaners , and it was alleged that while one of them was inside a telephone box and the other was outside , P. C.s Roberts and Pearce arrested them and took them to the Bridewell . |
| 26 | Some mothers would avoid problems , distracting their child by talking to them and involving them in the shopping , while others would distract their child once they had started to be difficult . |
| 27 | One strategy is to take a statement from them and tender it under the Civil Evidence Act to see if the other side serve a counter notice requiring them to be called . |
| 28 | They arrived with a flourish , laid the cases on the floor , opened them and dragged them around the room to be oh 'd and ah 'd over by the guests . |
| 29 | Lady Macleod received the travellers in ‘ a stately dining-room ’ , fed them and led them into the drawing-room for tea to meet the family . |
| 30 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |