Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember the other month , it was in the papers , was n't it ? about them tearing the clothes off that one who tried to queer their pitch ? |
| 2 | And erm they 're loyal to the society because it , they know really it 's partly through them supporting the Guilds that we are able erm I do n't know whether I would get the membership there if you 've got , you see we pay a subscription to , see it costs five Pound a year at the moment to be , to be a member of the Womens ' Guild , which we , we send dues as I say to these three sections you see . |
| 3 | Crystal Palace1 ARSENAL , back to the form which earned them two championships in three years , will use the rest of what has been a disappointing season for them to lay the foundations for future challenges . |
| 4 | While the first group of dogs feeds — it takes just a few seconds for them to finish the bowls , right down to the lick clean — I huff on my fingers , more hopefully than knowingly . |
| 5 | And that produced a spin off effect , because the people who actually lived in properties or the shopkeepers in the properties , they could see that the outsides were improved , and that provided a spur for them to provide the insides . |
| 6 | He managed to detain her long enough for them to tether the horses , because there would be no sense in coming out of the Workshops ( with , or without the prisoner ) and finding that the horses had turned their heads for Tara and that they had to walk the rest of the way to the Fire Court . |
| 7 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 8 | As with support in the other direction , although it is widely regarded as legitimate for parents to look to their children , it is also possible for them to overstep the boundaries , and the way in which support is requested and delivered is important . |
| 9 | Callières urged that young Frenchmen , if they could not meet the cost themselves , should be able to see other countries as members of the entourages of French ambassadors or envoys " according to the practice of the Spaniards and Italians who look upon it as an honour for them to accompany the ministers of their master in these sorts of voyages " . |
| 10 | However , as pilots become more confident about their landings , it is very important for them to develop the skills needed to co-ordinate the stick and airbrake during the final hold off , so that an even more accurate touch down can be made . |
| 11 | In the end he is proved both right and wrong : Merry and pippin between them rouse the Ents , save Faramir , kill the Ringwraith . |
| 12 | Freddie Fox , Graham Smith and Phillip Somerville are great individualists who between them dress the heads of the entire Royal Family , among countless other notables . |
| 13 | It assumed so much — as if the link that was between them needed no words … |
| 14 | The chariot-teams stand quiet , attendants sitting or crouching around , and between them stand the principals : Oenomaus with his wife Sterope , Pelops with Hippodameia . |
| 15 | Suger and Odo of Deuil between them established the norms for the house 's long tradition of royal historiography ; of these the chief was that whatever the Capetians did should be presented in the most favourable light possible . |
| 16 | The prahu 's very short timbers — designed to give flexibility — were now moving so violently against each other that the water pouring between them required the hand-pumps being manned round the clock . |
| 17 | After them come the foragers whose job it is to collect the spoils and carry them in the great baggage train . |
| 18 | All of them know the rules . |
| 19 | Neither of them understood the words but the music represented all that was fair and just . |
| 20 | None of them were ready to die , but all of them knew the odds stacked against them . |
| 21 | Perhaps the papers must be examined twice by two different examiners in different parts of the country ; the marks must be sent in to the central body by a certain date ; there may be not only scores of examination papers but hundreds , each of them containing the attempts of several questions . |
| 22 | Of the seven wars with France that can be counted between 1690 and 1815 , only one was indisputably a war about colonies , but of course all of them affected the colonies and their inhabitants . |
| 23 | The attacking column disappeared along the road , some of them entering the fields in the area of the No. 6 Commando . |
| 24 | There are nearly twenty co-ops in the city now , all of them involving the tenants in deep and detailed commitment both to the planning and to each other . |
| 25 | Some of them carried the guns which were the tools of their trade . |
| 26 | ‘ And was n't it kind of them to leave the things to Anne and myself and the nice messages ? ’ |
| 27 | Despite the weather , however , 17 of them braved the elements to play the one round Stableford competition . |
| 28 | The consequences of them wanting the drafts to be turned down . |
| 29 | One of them had the bagpipes , another a violin and the third a flute . |
| 30 | One of them had the carcasses of wolves and grypesh , leathery and stinking , littering its yard . |