Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 2 | They reveal to us the astonishing cultural achievements and spirit of our ancestors ; they also document the power struggles , intrigues and invasions that have shaped English history . |
| 3 | Their retail branches are a fixed cost , so the more business they put through them the better . |
| 4 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 5 | They took with them the 16-year-old Jane as interpreter . |
| 6 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
| 7 | Unlike the Scandinavian seafarers , however , the sixteenth-century Russians enjoyed an enormous military advantage over the indigenous people they encountered by having guns , and in addition they had behind them the organized power of the centralized state of Muscovy . |