Example sentences of "they [conj] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Many people value their group award certificates , such as HNC or HND , highly and wish to display them or present them to prospective employers . |
2 | Send me letters here still and I shall ask my new friend Mr ( wall-eyed ) Wood ( prop. ) to sit on them or speed them to another valley by pigeon post . |
3 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
4 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
5 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
6 | The first such coins were made from electrum from the rivers that flowed down from the Troilus Mountains , but advantage was soon taken of the different status in the traditional value system of the gold and silver components to separate them and use them for different denominations . |
7 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
8 | Well obviously they would look after them and keep them in good order , and what have you , so that there was no hold up with them trying to make a wage or whatever . |
9 | If females are concentrated together then it is much easier for a single male to herd them and defend them from other males . |
10 | Oh you 'll dro If you write to i If you write to them and drop it in that 's fine then . |