Example sentences of "of they [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes after their formal prayers , which were said a minimum of five times a day , they continued to sit with their feet in front of them while they carried on long conversations with God . |
| 2 | Tundrish caught up with the two of them before they descended whether filled with an access of comradeliness , or leery of why they should seemingly wish to seclude themselves together , who could say ? |
| 3 | This was the first news I had had of them since they had left Maymyo a fortnight earlier . |
| 4 | I do n't see much of them unless they want something and they do n't see much of me . |
| 5 | Aidan was a better authority on women than any of the rest of them so they followed him willingly . |
| 6 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 7 | The airmail letters which he exchanges with his liberal friends in England tell a worse story of them than they do of him , and hark back in fine style to that golden time when such friends used to kneel in London mosques with Michael X and other celebrities , squinting up at the Heavyweight Champion of the World 's effulgent arse . |
| 8 | Rounding up the elephants and trying to count them was a hellish job , much more difficult than anyone had foreseen because of the vast area , the confusing vegetation and terrain , and the impossibility of labelling the beasts or keeping track of them once they had been found and counted once . |
| 9 | Then , when they were large enough , God brought them out and the mother took care of them until they grew big enough to take care of themselves . |
| 10 | You used to surprise some of them because they thought they 'd done it before you 'd notice . ’ |
| 11 | I think er , Committee ought just to say thanks for both of them , I , I mean this is n't the way with reference to peace elects them democratic , though they 're , I think both Mr and represent the County of Swindon now , and I 'm grateful to both of them because they took a , a , a weight off my personal shoulders , which was useful . |
| 12 | Moore said : ‘ If people get into wrong positions inadvertently , there will be such a desperate desire to get out of them because they need the ball , I think it could increase violence . ’ |
| 13 | Erm and you see people frequently charging across the middle or even to the right-hand side of them because they do n't believe that you know that that they have to you know er be observed and gone round and erm whatever . |
| 14 | It was mother who sent the children to Mass , father who beat the daylights out of them when they got home ; in the end mother won , father lost and , Protestant-educated , they grew up Catholics . |
| 15 | so you know , I mean it 's gon na be difficult for a lot of them when they go . |
| 16 | And she said , sometimes I can agree with you she said , but some of them when they come into a library , you feel helped |
| 17 | If they were , sounds like they were still full of them when they made this lumbering , murderous fat shitbag of a single . |
| 18 | Compact aims to raise students ' awareness of the importance of basic skills and attitudes which will be required of them when they leave school for work . |
| 19 | But er , I never heard of them if they did and er , I mean I , I used to involve meself not in politics or anything like that is the last thing I ever thought of involving meself in but er , I did er , sort er , well being on the milk round you used to see the people in , because they come to door to bring a jug you see and you , you talk to people and you know they were , er were sensible and they were , were should I say soft or had no er conversation at all like , you know . |
| 20 | He writes of them as they stay for waftage : |
| 21 | I did not succeed in evading the notice of either of them as they had the advantage of knowing what would come next . |
| 22 | Every hill-walker dreams of seeing a wildlife drama unfold in front of them as they peer over a crag , hoping that the next rise will reveal an osprey fighting off a wildcat which it returned to find attacking the nest , forcing the great bird to drop its intended dinner , a pine marten , which runs for its life , stopping only to catch and eat a grounded , flapping , pipistrelle bat . |
| 23 | The agricultural reform , on which a constitutional amendment was tabled on Nov. 7 , put an end to the land distribution programme begun after the 1910-20 revolution , allowed private companies to buy agricultural land and form associations with co-operative farmers ( ejidatarios ) , and permitted the farmers , who currently had only the use of their plots , to own and dispose of them as they wished and , with the approval of their co-operative , to form joint ventures with private investors . |
| 24 | Klift spoke for all of them as they looked around the sloping entranceway . |
| 25 | This is an unacceptable to most of them as they believe that such service furthers military aims . |
| 26 | The Adobe technology is to be integrated with those components of SunSoft 's X11/NeWS Network-extensible Windowing System and SunPic 's NewsPrint system that can still offer specific advantages to Sun users , but Ybarra concurs with other observers who argue that in light of the deal there is now little future for either of them as they exist now and that a name change is only a matter of time . |
| 27 | Both of them jump back slightly as a cat darts in front of them as they leave the park , they both watch it running across the road without looking and then scramble up a wall to window ledge . |
| 28 | Riding in company with the Grenadiers and Chasseurs , he proceeded ahead of them as they neared Grenappe . |
| 29 | There was a silence then , an uneasy stillness between the two of them as they sat facing each other . |
| 30 | and she says they got sick of 'em cos they had everything |