Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could make it worse by insisting on the sort of minimum conditions put forward by the Labour party , conditions that would disadvantage the very people whom Labour says they are designed to protect . |
| 2 | Last night we celebrated the defeat of Italy — our brigadier ordered a rum ration to all ranks in honour of the occasion — yet I ca n't help feeling just a bit sorry for the Italians , and have never found it in my heart to dislike them as I do the Germans . |
| 3 | Someone else has n't done my story have they ? |
| 4 | I suppose I 've done my part to help them by writing extensively about laser weapons for New Scientist and other magazines . |
| 5 | My Mum screwed them up . |
| 6 | Well I must admit I I was bought , my sister saw them in er . |
| 7 | The older woman and two younger work while the three girls dance around , jump on and off walls , till my presence quells them . |
| 8 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 9 | Tim Pigott-Smith and his team have not to my mind found them . |
| 10 | But something in my mind hated them . |
| 11 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 12 | My great-uncle brought them from Italy ; he was terribly proud of them . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’ |
| 14 | If in the event there were plenty of ideas then my plan to seek them would become redundant . |
| 15 | My charm wins them all over in the end . |
| 16 | My only wish is that my winning shows them that there is always hope , and all battles can be won . |
| 17 | Does my child understand them ? |
| 18 | Amanda , paralysed with fright , managed to stutter , ‘ My m-m-mummy likes them . |
| 19 | but my body rejected them , for only in the present |
| 20 | My failure to identify them is doubly frustrating because of the likelihood that most of them were copied from published anthologies . |
| 21 | ’ My husband asked them why they did n't take a statement from me four years ago . |
| 22 | My husband thought they were a failure and felt embarrassed about them , and for a long time he would n't let me see them . |
| 23 | Yes , my husband wanted them exactly as the old ones . |
| 24 | It was part of my job to give them a crash course . |
| 25 | 'Cos he took them boots and it was my job to take them to the big house for the gentleman . ’ |
| 26 | They were the school caretakers but my job helping them did n't last long . |
| 27 | Well I work as a psychotherapist and it seems to me that for some people change is impossible and when that is the case then its my job to help them to come to terms with who they are and what they are and how there going to remain , but the other side of it is helping people to change and I have to say usually its to loose weight , that 's the biggest reason people want to change . |
| 28 | I do n't see it as my job to help them . |
| 29 | And I see it as part of my job to help them to be able to judge their own work … |
| 30 | Then she added with an air of responsibility , ‘ It 's my job to keep them in order . |