Example sentences of "they [subord] [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was trying hard to listen to the music and not look at them so I picked the local paper up and opened it . |
| 2 | There would hardly have been harmony between them if they had the same desires , if their interests coincided , if they were a threat to each other . |
| 3 | it costs me a bomb for phone calls to them cos they put the long , wrong address on |
| 4 | Normally she looked down her nose at men and then ignored them unless they needed the sharp edge of her tongue . |
| 5 | We must close ranks with them because we talk the same language . |
| 6 | The Jamaican with the gun follows them while they cross the gloomy concrete floor . |
| 7 | Well some some of them will be removable , because they remove them whilst they do the second phase . |
| 8 | ‘ Get out now , ’ Shamlou ordered the other two terrorists and waited for them before he entered the makeshift cage . |
| 9 | Two solutions might occur to ingenious engineers , indeed did occur to them when they encountered the same problem , again in the analogous case of radar . |
| 10 | Celtic pressed forward — and Collins made it a memorable night for them when he shot the third goal eleven minutes from time . |
| 11 | Then coral pink walls of rock closed about them as they took the deep cut into Wells . |
| 12 | Athelstan gauged it to be about two o'clock in the afternoon and this was confirmed by a servant who bumped into them as they passed the great hall . |
| 13 | Manningham , a burly fifty-year-old with an aggressive manner and a paunch , met them as they descended the far side of the bridge . |
| 14 | There was no contact between them as they toured the magnificent sixth-century shrine . |
| 15 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 16 | Donald silenced them as he sang the first line , rather solemnly , in a rich baritone : |
| 17 | It is usual to have the boards running so that you look down them as you enter the main door of the room . |