Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 2 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 3 | There 's usually just enough rightness about them to make you feel guilty but not quite enough to stop one feeling resentful and baffled as well . |
| 4 | But I mean we also , we , I mean we 're providing a service for them to allow them to come on off the street , use the bus , right , but at the same time were trying to provide services for them because one of the things that came out in a consultation was , young people did n't feel that there was enough information for them in the town . |
| 5 | Though arrested in Denmark , Britain , France and Spain for narcotics and arms offences , al-Kassar had made himself too valuable an asset to European and American intelligence agencies for them to allow him to go to waste in prison , so that he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance matched only among international criminals by his partner , Rifat Assad , younger brother of the Syrian president , who also owned a villa outside Marbella , and whose daughter , Raja , was al-Kassar 's mistress . |
| 6 | She telephoned police and as she waited for them to arrive she noticed the same youths approach a man with two young children and drench one of the children . |
| 7 | or with a specific letter for them saying you know welcome if you if you feel like it . |
| 8 | Their uniform ‘ acted like a red rag to a bull ’ on the population ; people had lost all respect for them held them to blame for their plight , and vented their anger o At the beginning of September , the SD agency in Kitzingen felt that the loss of confidence in the Party and the regime 's leadership was rapidly moving towards a dangerous level . |
| 9 | And then they would walk for them do you see , do their way up for them . |
| 10 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 11 | ‘ Something might have happened between them to make him lose his temper . ’ |
| 12 | None of them got him to justify our membership of the ERM , which is , as everyone knows , the cause of our high interest rates . |
| 13 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 14 | Neither of them saw him go . |
| 15 | So the letting officer from one of them said they 'd got a house for me . |
| 16 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 17 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 18 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 19 | One of them said he faced a possible ban from International footie ( playing for France I assume , and any matches the scum have in Europe — nyuk , nyuk ) , the other said he would face a ban from the game — AS A WHOLE . |
| 20 | At the end of one term , one of them said she had a new friend called Lisa . |
| 21 | Mo most of them played they played well |
| 22 | When one of them married he gave the impression of feeling betrayed . |
| 23 | To illustrate the way many of them operated he cited the case of a widow who in 1894 borrowed £50 from a London loan bank on the security of her furniture which was valued at £250 . |
| 24 | If you do try out any of them let us know how you got on . |
| 25 | None was formally invited , except for a late and not very attractive offer to Montagu , but Lloyd George would probably have been glad to have two or three of them had he believed that they would accept . |
| 26 | ‘ The reaction from my clients and business contacts was tremendous — perhaps some of them wish they had done the same — and one senior partner from the Big Six wrote and told me that his mother had been a great friend of Lady Reading , the WRVS 's founder , and that until he was 15 he thought all women dressed in green ! ’ |
| 27 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 28 | Oh there were many of them killed you see . |
| 29 | Two of them made her feel , not old exactly , but as if life was passing her by They were the one from Joanne that said , " You 've reached a quarter century " and the one from Stephen , " My dearest wife " . |
| 30 | The sight of them made her feel old — old and soiled . |