Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big-spending Hollywood myth retains its influence and the Zombie cast were well looked after by Steenway Productions , with cars organized to get them to and from the set . |
| 2 | Literary representation enters a complex negotiation with history , a debate about ‘ things ’ ( institutions , actions , events ) and the words used to name them with an awareness that both the names and the things may be otherwise . |
| 3 | At midday six guerrilla fighters arrive to help them from a military base near to their village . |
| 4 | Richard Wiles went to meet them at home . |
| 5 | Most journals send the referees ' reports to the authors , and authors try to take them into account , assuming they are true . |
| 6 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 7 | When moderate areas , principally Nottinghamshire , failed to comply , Yorkshire miners tried to bring them into line by picketing their pits . |
| 8 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 9 | Conservatives voted to keep them at 10p , but were defeated . |
| 10 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 11 | Opinion polls suggested that about a third of the 8,400,000 people who had been issued vouchers intended to place them with funds set up by banks or private financial groups . |
| 12 | The BDA provides interpreters at party political conferences but the TV companies refuse to show them on screen . |
| 13 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 14 | Ministers have for many years seemed to regard them as a somewhat unnecessary alternative to the roads . |
| 15 | They are likely to stay for a long time with one organisation , and indeed many organisations seek to bind them to them by offering fringe benefits , particularly in the form of " loyalty bonuses " to encourage them to return at the start of each new banqueting season . |
| 16 | Several times a week throughout the cold war British pilots scrambled to intercept them over the North Sea . |
| 17 | So I would , I and a couple of the fellas went to pull them to the aeroplane graveyard . |
| 18 | It is worth pointing out that virtually all of the current best model helicopter pilots learned to fly them before the existence of a practical gyrostabiliser . |
| 19 | For one thing , the British people at that stage of history were not regarded as a nation still reliant on divine approval for their acts , and for another , they did not have any ancient writings purporting to endow them with territorial rights . |
| 20 | On the contrary , the light rail systems found in experimental services throughout much of this century , but maturing only recently with the use of modern technology , could have a very bright future if Governments come to regard them as a necessary investment to meet an increasing transport need . |
| 21 | The theory behind the sections is that , if an owner of goods agrees to sell them to someone and retains title but nevertheless lets the buyer have possession , that owner must bear the consequences ( i.e. loss of title ) if the buyer then sells and delivers the goods to an innocent sub-purchaser . |
| 22 | The study 's author , Michael Cameron , thinks that roads should be treated like telephone lines or the electricity supply : if customers want to use them at peak times , they should pay more . |
| 23 | If the previous five markets are anything to go by , works will be grabbed from the walls and plinths while organisers rush to replace them with other works . |
| 24 | For some teachers , then , the presence of examinations seems to constrain them in their approach to classroom teaching ; it limits innovation and inhibits their willingness to explore new teaching strategies . |
| 25 | Their owners plan to fire them at an enemy 's military forces rather than against cities or factories . |
| 26 | Table 3.3 shows some alternative orderings for a word list of 2461 words , together with the number of edges needed to represent them in a dawg structure . |
| 27 | Stalin had been hoping that British and American forces would be used to create a ‘ second front ’ on the main continent of Europe and by now he had convinced himself that the United States and Britain were deliberately delaying the creation of the ‘ second front ’ so that the Russian forces would be weakened by allowing the major part of the German forces to continue to oppose them on the eastern front . |
| 28 | Then I mention that the only people who really use notebooks to the full , who worry about weight and battery life , are journalists because most other notebook users tend to take them from the car to an office or home , often using the mains and probably doing little more than running a spreadsheet . |
| 29 | They are , indeed , reported by people who have been brought back from the edge of death — though mundane scientists tend to attribute them to the effects of oxygen starvation on a failing brain . |
| 30 | These will be available for members wishing to use them as part of their revision programme for the September examinations . |