Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 2 | I do n't know how many vote with their feet in going elsewhere , but few of them challenge us at home . |
| 3 | There he revealed himself as god and ordered them to serve him as priests in his new shrine . |
| 4 | C. and D. then , fraudulently and without the defendant 's knowledge , made arrangements with the building society to borrow £15,000 on the security of the property to enable them to purchase it for £24,500 from the defendant . |
| 5 | Some of them poked him with sticks to see if he really was a savage and threw books shouting , ‘ Build us a tower . |
| 6 | The sight of them filled him with pride . |
| 7 | What they need , apart from encouragement , is a little practical know-how about the job they are taking on , to enable them to tackle it with confidence . |
| 8 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 9 | You do n't want to go to the police , because you 're afraid they 'll simply get involved in another siege — if you can make them believe you in time , which seems doubtful . |
| 10 | Of course er they have about erm well I 'm not sure , about twenty eight or thirty thousand gallons of diesel stocked up there , and of course in them buying it in bulk like that they get it at a cheaper rate . |
| 11 | Either way , the problem you describe , combined with the fact that this is your first dog , makes me think you should go back to the RSPCA and ask them to put you in touch with the most suitable , local training club . |
| 12 | ‘ I told them to leave me in peace , ’ he said harshly . |
| 13 | This is what people do before parties : she has seen them doing it on television : indeed , she used to do it herself when she was young , when she had no need of such substances , before she reverted so inexorably to her ancestral type . |
| 14 | If the adults feel guilty , then let them take it to supervision . |
| 15 | The Conti family held on to Sora after the election of Innocent 's successor , Honorius III , who wished to retain their loyalty and allowed them to keep it in return for payment , but lost the territory back to the Regno after a successful campaign by Frederick II in 1221 . |
| 16 | The only thing that stopped them cutting us to ribbons was that one of my friends had the gift of the gab and gradually defused the situation by talking good sense in a calm reasonable way ; finally he pointed out that we would all end up in the local police cells if anything happened anyway . |
| 17 | Some of the crowd were pleased when they heard this , but most of them watched me in silence . |
| 18 | I look at their mouths and their hands , put on a prim expression and think about them having me in bed . |
| 19 | There 's still probably a lot more people thought who saw things out there , and we 'd still like them to contact us at Cowley if they 've any information as to who the offenders are . |
| 20 | ‘ One or two of them taunted her about Grianan , but she always responded fiercely , ’ says Nuala . |
| 21 | I do n't mind Come Up and See Me being released ; God willing it will go high enough for them to invite me on Top Of The Pops ! |
| 22 | In fact , I think quite a lot of them took it to heart . |
| 23 | The brakes can be used fiercely to minimise the roll , but we let aerodynamic drag do most of the work , leaving them to slow us to taxi speed and steer onto the taxiway ( still ineffectually prodding the rudder pedals ) . |
| 24 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 25 | I think that 's an implication of what they were accusing him of , but were they bringing him to trial for . |
| 26 | They got them in Woolworths . |
| 27 | ‘ They got him to hospital , but then he had a second attack . |
| 28 | Cos whoever it was they got me in trouble . |
| 29 | Hereford were due a break as well and sure enough , they got it against Gillingham at Edgar Street . |
| 30 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |