Example sentences of "[prep] they [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creep will also say things like , ‘ Oh , I know just how you feel ’ or ‘ I hear what you say ’ , and by the end of the interview you 'll know as much about them as they know about you . |
| 2 | Then coral pink walls of rock closed about them as they took the deep cut into Wells . |
| 3 | It 's just I do n't really know much about them because they live quietly . ’ |
| 4 | Nobody has ever bothered much about them because they harm no one ( except the ants ) . |
| 5 | ’ The great organisations of the masses … in the past were not worked out by any theoretical elite or vanguard … the new organisations will come as Lilburnes Leveller Party came , as the sections and popular societies of Paris in 1793 , as the Commune in 1871 and the Soviets in 1905 , with not a single soul having any concrete ideas about them until they appeared in all their power and glory ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , even we could n't be sure about them until they rammed us . |
| 7 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 8 | The salts dissolved in the oceans do not reside there permanently , rather they cycle through them as they pass from crystalline to sedimentary rock . |
| 9 | Already officers were returning from enquiries with completed interview-forms and Lucy Lane was going through them as they came in . |
| 10 | Notice that it is customary to indicate the parameters best varied to achieve balance by drawing an arrow through them where they appear in the double balance equations , as done here . |
| 11 | There were cases of families being made to leave by conditions being rendered difficult for them after they had made complaints to the corporation housing department . |
| 12 | A GROUP of 35 children from Dothill county infants school , Telford , will be visiting the Laura Ashley garment factory in Carno on Thursday to be presented with cotton aprons produced specially for them after they designed their own patterns based on the theme ‘ Around Our School . ’ |
| 13 | How could you kiss someone properly when you knew they had let you sit there for hours waiting for them while they went off and had dinner with someone else ? |
| 14 | I 've looked after the kids for them while they 've gone to vote , anything to get them here , that was the thing . |
| 15 | In the end they fell upon Southwell , and the earth has literally moved for them since they purchased it in March . |
| 16 | Except that the first time round the Indians saw that Firmin survived and they ran away because they were afraid , and the second time round they saw they 'd killed Antonio , which was quite the wrong result for them so they ran away because it had all gone wrong . |
| 17 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |
| 18 | We shouted for them till they came out on their balcony . |
| 19 | It was worse for them because they had kept their child and had time to form a bond with it . ’ |
| 20 | Inwardly I had a sneaking admiration for them because they had been sure that they did n't like the Legion and so had acted directly and left . |
| 21 | ‘ I really do feel sorry for them because they know how hard their parents have worked to raise money for the computers , ’ she said . |
| 22 | The Italians have mae it work for them because they have been able to inject a comfortable , relaxed mood . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 24 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 25 | ‘ The country areas are a softer option for them where they know some areas are no-gos for us because of manoeuvrability and the terrain . |
| 26 | Criticizing a scooterist do n't want them in town and then put functions on and cheap beer for them when they come . |
| 27 | ‘ But if we move against him openly , and him the King 's friend , the King may call out all the clans against us , with the promise of our land as prize for them when they 've destroyed us ; and we 've unfriends enough would jump at the chance . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Thus , the enemy forfeited the advantage of surprise , and they found the English heroes ready for them when they struck . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was because she went to an early Mass to have breakfast ready for them when they returned ; but she did n't like lying in bed in the mornings anyway , and as he had said many times ( admittedly without great enthusiasm ) they could quite easily go to Mass together , and wait a lit–de longer for breakfast . |
| 30 | You can do the same for them when they go away . |