Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes children like to list the names of the members of their family and in this way we can help them to count how many there are , and help them to remember to include themselves in the count ! |
| 2 | Barbara Newington from Connecticut remembered shaking hands effusively with Reagan at the beginning and end of her audience , and each of them saying thank you to the other ; but precisely what she was thanking him for , and what he was thanking her for , neither said . |
| 3 | Without them having to ask us for the address . |
| 4 | And if they somehow suspected that I was picking up something valuable , why would any of them try to kill me before the pick-up ? |
| 5 | They failed to make anything like the sort of headway the following day when they met the Wallabies in the rain at Newlands . |
| 6 | The problems with unwanted feelings are that they tend to hinder us in the here and now even though the feelings are often associated with past or future events . |
| 7 | They tend to consider themselves as the true bearers of Islam , forgetting that four out every five Muslims are not Arabs . |
| 8 | Well , I see they 've instructed you in the story of your birth , since you had so thriving a grudge against me . |
| 9 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 10 | Comrades , it 's time that this union , along with other trade unions , made it absolutely clear to the Labour leadership , we are the Labour Party , it is us that gives resources , our time , our money , everything to try and get them elected and it 's time they stopped kicking us in the teeth at times such as this . |
| 11 | They , they stopped having them on the , the seafront anyway . |
| 12 | seven o'clock , well I thought I 'd come a bit earlier forget that they want a tidy living room , they want to get the toys out of the way , they want to present themselves in the best possible light so they 'd be more forgiving if you 're late than if you 're too early to be on time . |
| 13 | Fleischmann 's entry reports ‘ music , cooking , skiing , walking ’ — nothing very remarkable here perhaps , but they helped to bring him to the most intense period of his scientific career . |
| 14 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 15 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 16 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 17 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 18 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 19 | Therefore , in order to avoid panic attacks , they stop placing themselves in the situations in which they had previously experienced these feelings . |
| 20 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 21 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 22 | They were adamant that it had been clear all along , they 'd suspected something from the start . |
| 23 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 24 | By the time they 'd stowed everything in the boot of the Ferrari and driven to a hilltop where , Nicolo said , they would have the best view , the sun was a fiery ball low on the hills . |
| 25 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 26 | They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days . |
| 27 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
| 28 | Something seemed to have excited them , they 'd found something on the foreshore . |
| 29 | The two biffos would have come sneaking through the door , rubbing their hands and telling themselves they 'd got me by the balls , and I 'd have pointed the extinguisher and put out their fire . |
| 30 | Once dormant , however , their metabolism slows down so much that the pineal is virtually switched off , and how they manage to rouse themselves at the correct time remains a mystery . |