Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] they [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity to buy two outstanding adjoining properties in that location was extremely rare and the Perots had the opportunity to acquire them both as a family compound . |
| 2 | The harsh , jarring ring of the telephone stunned them both into silence . |
| 3 | Now , as the waiter served them both with salmon poached in white wine , dressed with a spicy sauce and served with salad and new potatoes , she felt her mouth watering in anticipation of the meal . |
| 4 | The moment embarrassed them both to silence . |
| 5 | Because Vitor had thanked him in his own language , the waiter took them both to be fellow compatriots and proceeded to chatter away in Portuguese , remarking on the sunny weather , suggesting choices of food and wine , complimenting them on Thomas 's cuteness and good behaviour . |
| 6 | ( ‘ Nature intended them all to be small and prickly , ’ Clare had pointed out unkindly in one animated discussion . ) |
| 7 | Static scribbled them all into incomprehensibility . |
| 8 | And that 's all we had there and we were for ever getting flooded out and there we we 'd all clean our shoes before going to bed at night put 'em all underneath the sideboard or whatever . |
| 9 | Almost at once the National Anthem summoned them both to their feet , but Mark responded sluggishly . |
| 10 | The unexpected news affected them all in some way , but it would have the greatest impact upon Seb 's life . |
| 11 | Rainbow freezes them all into silence with a daredevil lanecrossing manoeuvre , and pulls up with an intentional lurch in a crowded lay-by . |
| 12 | An old battle-axe of a nun wrapped them both in heavy blankets , forcing cups of mulled wine down their throats . |
| 13 | She was a woman from an age quite different from Erika 's own ; separated by a gulf , a measureless chasm of experience distancing them each from the other as surely as though they were beings from two different planets . |
| 14 | In 1842 six ships were at anchor in Funchal Bay when a hurricane blew them all onto the shore . |
| 15 | I 've had tons of guitars , but never at the same time — I never had enough money to have them all at once . ’ |
| 16 | Pioline 's stunner ended Courier 's quest to become the first man to reach all four Grand Slam finals in one year since the great Rod Laver won them all in 1969 . |
| 17 | The sergeant told them all about the cattle trucks and how Charles had soon put a stop to that . |
| 18 | A long white strip of cloth linked them all from hand a hand as they made their way down through the sleet and the open snowy fields . |
| 19 | The senior doctor addressed them all in a memorial service . |
| 20 | Youngest son Joe made some dramatic accusations that his dad terrified them all with his violent behaviour . |
| 21 | Our cautionary comments and suggestions are offered to ease the transitional processes of attachment and detachment in order to improve them both for the individual and the organisations involved . |
| 22 | Iago turns them all into hypocrites . |
| 23 | However , the most notable feature of these accounts is not so much their dating , as the apparent belief in St Augustine 's , where Goscelin spent the last years of his life , that Cnut visited them both on the way to and from Rome . |
| 24 | The flying grey deserves them all in return for the joy and thrills he has given thousands while humping 12 stone in weight around on his back . |