Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father knew them all and taught me their names . |
| 2 | ‘ There are a hundred and seven passengers on that plane , Ambassador , and my Government wants them all alive , ’ Helen answered quietly . |
| 3 | kept the children in bed , told them not to move and the boy , the gi erm , what 's her name , I ca n't think of her name now , she erm , she woke her , her husband chased them both downstairs , tell you where they live , you know Lawrence Hill ? |
| 4 | The intensity of their relationship surprised them both . |
| 5 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 6 | Workers looked to the national state , over which democracy gave them some influence , to protect them against the ravages of an unregulated world economy . |
| 7 | He went on , more to her father now than to her , in his light drawling voice she had to listen to in church every Sunday of her life telling them all what was what because he had the God-given power to do so and they had to listen and obey . |
| 8 | ‘ Thank goodness , it 's almost dark , ’ thought Mildred , tagging on to the end of form three as their form-mistress counted them all . |
| 9 | The identifiable failures of school science — the anti-science anti-technologists who can see science only as domination rather than that science as domination is itself a historical product , and the mass of people whose schooling teaches them that science is a specialized activity over which they neither have nor could have any control . |
| 10 | Such was not the condition of Scotia , whose disparate regions , lacking the same resources and manpower , had begun to knit together under a King whose descent embraced them all . |
| 11 | She said his name , the sound of it muffled against the pressure of his lips , and he murmured something back to her , moved with sudden fierceness , and the final thrust of his body sent them both tumbling down and down into a completely new dimension . |
| 12 | His generosity moves them both . |
| 13 | The Prime Minister gets his chance to pull them all together on Friday … it could be John Major 's judgement day or the jackpot . |
| 14 | Youngest son Joe made some dramatic accusations that his dad terrified them all with his violent behaviour . |
| 15 | What fun to have them all lined up for inspection … |
| 16 | Only when the children feel less threatened will they be able to relax , and it 's up to you and your husband to give them that security . |