Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought it unlikely that he would marry again , but nothing between them would change , however many wives entered , or attempted to enter , his life . |
| 2 | Nursing agencies have often been the means to re-entry in the past , and they too are having to adapt to new forces at work which for them could represent a consumer boom . |
| 3 | At the early end of parenting women can spend literally years in a state of near exhaustion , which for them can make sexual relations very unattractive . |
| 4 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 5 | In considering the issue of legitimacy in relation to our constitutional arrangements and the exercise of governmental power , what has to be done is to examine a range of practices , decisions , actions ( and non-practices , -decisions and -actions ) statements and policies which between them can amount to a portrait of power , so that we can form a judgment or an assessment of that power set against the principles of limited government outlined and discussed so far . |
| 6 | Naked women cycled energetically round an indoor track as spectators placed bets on which of them would reach orgasm first from the rubbing of clitoris on saddle . |
| 7 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
| 8 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 9 | Consider the variety of ways in which humans spend their time and ask which of them would have value if they occurred , miraculously , in a kind of vacuum . |
| 10 | Let's look in this bucket and see which of these things will float and which of them will sink . |
| 11 | Every seven years representatives of the eight magical colleges in Altdorf meet to decide which of them will reign as the Supreme Patriarch for the next seven years . |
| 12 | First , is it inevitable that political parties , not voters , should rank candidates on their lists , and thus decide which of them will have the best chances of being elected ? |
| 13 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 14 | As the four-man squad loped , half-crouching , along the space station 's strangely-twisting corridors , Ace and Daak were squabbling about which of them should guard the other 's back . |
| 15 | In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders . |
| 16 | The roar of applause when it later rids itself of them may boost its popularity at a critical moment . |
| 17 | Earlier , and none of them might have survived the ritual of the tunnel of terror … |
| 18 | Funnily enough , none of them would drink and drive or not wear a seatbelt . ’ |
| 19 | I mean , I did , but I also had ‘ up ’ and ‘ down ’ , and none of them would do . |
| 20 | But none of them would do for today . |
| 21 | This was now attempted , but I got nowhere near finding out , because none of them would estimate over the phone . |
| 22 | ‘ I bet my friend , who commands the 4th Battalion of the Presidential Guard , that he could deploy 50 men and that none of them would lay hands on you . |
| 23 | in a trot but er I might just have this and none of them would win , I 've only , I would only praise them guessed up or that way or |
| 24 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 25 | Without the traffic-free tranquillity of the town centre , none of them would have been noticeable . |
| 26 | There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained . |
| 27 | None of them would have any formal local attachment other than to the large constituency as a whole . |
| 28 | I knew perfectly well that if ever that crowd got hold of them none of them would have been left to tell the tale and took immediate steps for them to escape by the windows at the rear of the premises . |
| 29 | ‘ None of them would have provided any kind of challenge to your tightly guarded female bastion . ’ |
| 30 | They were trapped in each other 's company , each one wanting to break away , to do anything rather than stay there together , but none of them would risk being thought unfeeling , or odd . |