Example sentences of "they [subord] they [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will collect some leaves , chew them until they form a crude sponge , then soak the sponge in the pool so that it can squeeze the water into its mouth . |
| 2 | You might also ask them if they had a big hi-jacking at the end of May . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were loath to attract adverse publicity by criticising headhunters for an unsuitable or even disastrous appointment , or felt it might be a reflection on them if they chose an unsuitable firm . |
| 5 | it costs me a bomb for phone calls to them cos they put the long , wrong address on |
| 6 | Normally she looked down her nose at men and then ignored them unless they needed the sharp edge of her tongue . |
| 7 | The Jamaican with the gun follows them while they cross the gloomy concrete floor . |
| 8 | Harvey stared down at his toes and watched them while they did a little dance . |
| 9 | Well some some of them will be removable , because they remove them whilst they do the second phase . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The problem Lotus and WordPerfect face is how to persuade existing users to stick with them when they buy a better machine bundled with Windows . |
| 12 | Then coral pink walls of rock closed about them as they took the deep cut into Wells . |
| 13 | Caroline stared at them as they began a rapid , incomprehensible exchange in Malti , sickened by her own feelings of painful rejection . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Manningham , a burly fifty-year-old with an aggressive manner and a paunch , met them as they descended the far side of the bridge . |
| 16 | There was no contact between them as they toured the magnificent sixth-century shrine . |