Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors will not need to be reminded that for them to continue to act despite a conflict of interest is a breach of their duty to the court . |
| 2 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 3 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 4 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 5 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 6 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 7 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 8 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 9 | SINCE the first police forces were founded 150 years ago , everything about them has changed except the way they are organised . |
| 10 | Thus , sometimes a seller will find himself still in possession of goods after the ownership in them has passed to the buyer . |
| 11 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 12 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
| 13 | No , no no this is them wanting to get off a course off the ground |
| 14 | The Typical Chinese Dishes with plenty of good hot coffee on top of them seemed to combine with the heating in the place to make me sleepy . |
| 15 | But it was said and the barrier was back between them , built of suspicions neither of them dared bring to the surface … though Trent had intended asking her about her grandfather . |
| 16 | Er well there was none of them got married during the time that I was there . |
| 17 | They either end up in stalemate , or one of them gets dragged over the line . |
| 18 | Both were equally unsteady platforms for a marksman but that did n't preclude one of them getting killed by a chance shot . |
| 19 | OFF-LICENCES all over Ulster will be handing out free measures to customers next month — to help stop them getting sozzled on the sofa ! |
| 20 | Although many of them feel cheated by the government 's refusal to hold a referendum over Maastricht , that is not the defining issue . |
| 21 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 22 | BRITISH motorists face higher road taxes under an EC plan to make them pay according to the number of miles they drive . |
| 23 | Some of them become trapped beneath the thatch , and whirl above me as diminutive galaxies of light . |
| 24 | The two of them went to stand in the bow . |
| 25 | He confronted Julie Stott , 27 , and her companion , Peter Ellis , 27 , forced them to lie spreadeagled on the ground , and apparently shouted for them to hand over their money and watches . |
| 26 | They failed to agree on a design , but the ‘ modern ’ image of electric cooking , particularly among young housewives , led to a gradual expansion of cooker sales . |
| 27 | This particular America 's cup bears no comparison to the trophy they failed to capture at The Belfry . |
| 28 | Commentators claimed that the UN would implement its threat of economic sanctions against the Khmers Rouges if they failed to comply with the deadline . |
| 29 | If the union struggle was to have any success it would need to have the complementary support of a political party , but as the ‘ parties ’ were preoccupied with the fight for short term gain and not permanent principles , they failed to capitalise on the situation . |
| 30 | In the light of our discussion in Chapter 2 , it could be argued that in so doing they failed to get to the root of the problem . |