Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 2 | Given that the member will be sent their membership card , it would seem a small step away to actually send them a letter addressed to them personally welcoming them to the union and advise them at the very least on the basic facilities and benefits , plus other important information , and signed by the Regional Secretary , if not by the General Secretary . |
| 3 | And when they tire of their offerings , Believers throw them away to replace them with ‘ better ’ things . |
| 4 | In sum , in the contention which attended or , as some might prefer , the dialectical process which generated the structural change represented by the measures contained in the Reform Bill , the Whigs by proposing and the Tories by opposing them finally identified it as the exclusive issue on which people would stand up and be counted , for or against , yes or no . |
| 5 | if some of them just do it to be on the television . |
| 6 | Rose had entered the newsagent at that very moment , and Sally-Anne , acting with characteristic speed , had swept up her photograph and one of Mrs Langtry , and , putting the second one on top , she had handed them over to buy them with her hard-earned pennies . |
| 7 | Mr Leach , who had originally opposed Mr Taylor 's selection on procedural grounds , said : ‘ Some of them still treat me as an ally and I know what they are saying . |
| 8 | We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | The columns for support and supply had been alerted long ago , the clansmen waited only for the signal , and his great seal on the writs his messengers carried would bring them out to join him like bees from a hive disturbed . |
| 10 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 11 | tape them well tape them for Marg , I do n't suppose he 's done any since Marg died no |
| 12 | Add the carrots and turn them frequently to coat them with the pale glaze . |
| 13 | Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals . |
| 14 | They eventually got them off me with baby oil , and almost took my fingers with them . |
| 15 | They eventually reach her via the markets in Liverpool . |
| 16 | Although there was initially some resistance on the part of manufacturers to the development of the variety multiples , they eventually found it to their advantage to deal directly with them . |
| 17 | I told you I went and looked that up not long ago , things at that price they only guarantee them for six months . |
| 18 | But they only know him as Graham . |
| 19 | People write me letters saying that although they only know me from my photos , they feel that they know something about my personality . |
| 20 | I was reading a scum book at the weekend and in it Fergie was saying how Martin Edwards had cut Leeds down to 1 million for Eric the Fled by saying they only got him for 800k . |
| 21 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
| 22 | They only had them from |
| 23 | They must drink because they are so dry yet cold water disagrees with their stomach so they only take it in sips . |
| 24 | I think that they only intend them for linings . |
| 25 | And I was in there until I left Colchester , but what , what happened , you see when you first go in they only class you as a a class three tradesman . |
| 26 | They only tell you about that bit . |
| 27 | As to those who force horses forward with blows in such a case , they only inspire them with greater terror ; for they imagine , when they suffer any pain at such a time , that what they look upon with alarm is in some way the cause of it . |
| 28 | They only want it for games do they ? |
| 29 | They only have them in this colour though . |
| 30 | That 's right they only have it off the |