Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] they [det] " in BNC.

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1 Within the past hour has announced that a review is being launched into the future of three pits in Yorkshire with the intention of closing them all down .
2 It appeared that Josh Cohen had no intention of giving them any trouble — just as Hardy had predicted .
3 She tried to calculate the effect of telling them all .
4 The American has become the Carlsberg League club 's leading scorer since joining them this season .
5 So if you want to just sort of remember them all , as a table we 've got sort of say acid plus metal and see what happens see what 's given off , well we get a salt a lot of the time do n't we and we
6 What 's the point in getting them all stuffy about it ?
7 I did n't kill him and to was no point in giving them any more to gossip about . ’
8 Any chance of buying them all a pair of slippers each ?
9 His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both .
10 But if you saw their scorching live performance of Leave Them All Behind on Top of the Pops a few weeks ago then there was little else here to be surprised at .
11 The attempt to entice six male sperm whales out of Scapa Flow by playing them some fruity dialogue recorded at a whales ' hen night off the Azores has so far failed .
12 Beth was oddly relieved that she had not confided in Cissie ; not that she did n't trust the girl , but because she had never spoken to anyone about her family , or her reason for leaving them all those years ago .
13 I do n't stand a hope in hell of answering them all but I 'm going to try my damnedest , and to that end have missed out on most of the company parties and outings .
14 Every such case demands serious consideration , and the burden of considering them all must be substantial .
15 How did they keep , how did they stop the flaming thing from snaking them all , you know ?
16 You may yet find a way of getting them both .
17 If the adventurers are not very knowledgeable about Constant Drachenfels , this is a novel way of feeding them some more information .
18 He had no way of carrying them all off , but two of the volumes were dated to cover the period of the insulin project as Diane had described it .
19 Getting children talking about texts in groups after reading them is one way of giving them this power with texts .
20 Later still he may train himself to eradicate the desire or aversion itself , releasing himself from one causally necessary condition of facing facts , so that the formula is no longer directly applicable ; but that will be in the service of other ends , and unless he can discover some new way of validating them these too will be spontaneous goals selected from the rest by thinking within the frame of the same formula .
21 Our aim is to help them make the right purchase by giving them all the information they need .
22 I was very pleased , naturally , but the task of answering them all , which I was determined to do , was daunting , to say the least .
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