Example sentences of "they [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The women have become more feminist in their outlook and this has helped them to stand up against the men of the villages and take a firm stance in their lives . |
2 | And thirdly , his world contained a great number of Christian knights , professional warriors , lords of unrule : if he could but find a holy cause , a just war , God 's war , for them to engage in outside the frontiers of Europe , what might they not achieve , what peace might not come to Christendom ? |
3 | The horses could n't get inside the church , so the doors were left open for them to look in on the proceedings . |
4 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
5 | A court has been told that three men accused of killing twin sisters in a barn fire shouted to them to get out before the men themselves ran away . |