Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 2 | ‘ If he has not , ’ Alexei observed , ‘ then I have no doubt that someone is showing them to him even now . ’ |
| 3 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 4 | However , a great many books that , if one were tabulating them by content , would perhaps have to be called why-dun-its still have in them considerable elements of other sub-genres . |
| 5 | One is to wrap them in clingfilm and put them in the fridge until the next meal . |
| 6 | Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives . ’ |
| 7 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 8 | It was as though something was pulling them towards that end of the cabin . |
| 9 | PC margins have grown so slim that no one was incorporating them into PCs for multi media applications as there were no applications that could provide value to a user that bought them . |
| 10 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |