Example sentences of "they and [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was suggested that some existing pensioners , who may not have drawn the sum due to them on leaving the Bank , could now claim the sum due to them and donate it to the Fund . |
| 2 | Thomas Buchanan had to hit them and push them to the top of the rock . |
| 3 | Acknowledge encouragement and assistance from them and support them in return . |
| 4 | Parents may need to sit with their children during this learning phase to encourage them to stay seated and to talk to them and distract them with stories and play . |
| 5 | so you can go to them and ask them for advice and they ca n't give it , because there 's not that link back to where you know |
| 6 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 7 | Actually my son 's rather disappointed , he was hoping to farm them and train them into a novelty act . |
| 8 | The best way to deal with them is to unbalance them , trip them and throw them to the ground . |
| 9 | We expect the people to be like them and presuppose it in dealing with the people themselves . |
| 10 | The Thames was flowing full and furious , the water greedily lapping their feet as if it would like to catch them and drag them under its swollen black surface . |
| 11 | GUIL : We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us , with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke , and a presumption that once our eyes watered . |
| 12 | He had to acquiesce in the seizure of Church plate and in the appropriation of common lands by the nobility , who enclosed them and put them under pasture . |
| 13 | And dried them and put them on the rack again . |
| 14 | The dreams were all in a mess on the top , so I got hold of them and put them underneath me to stop them blowing away ( not that there was any wind ) and hunted through the rest . |
| 15 | He blanched and I would chill and bag them and put them in the freezer . |
| 16 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 17 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 18 | After she had gone upstairs Carolyn collected them and put them in a jar on the mantelpiece . |
| 19 | He even took them and put them in the litter-bin . |
| 20 | I like to look at them and show them to my guests . |
| 21 | The mind of the human observer is endowed with creative imagination ; this allows the scientist not only to make discoveries about the laws of nature but to tamper with them and exploit them to his own advantage . |
| 22 | One strategy is to take a statement from them and tender it under the Civil Evidence Act to see if the other side serve a counter notice requiring them to be called . |
| 23 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 24 | When the people in the world awaken to the rights that are theirs , governments will no longer dare to defy them and set them at nought . ’ |
| 25 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 26 | The first such coins were made from electrum from the rivers that flowed down from the Troilus Mountains , but advantage was soon taken of the different status in the traditional value system of the gold and silver components to separate them and use them for different denominations . |
| 27 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 28 | If there is someone at work whose approach to patients or clinical abilities you admire then observe them and use them as a role model . |
| 29 | unless they 're going to let , unless people are going to buy them and let them at a reasonable rent to people |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll press them and keep them between the pages of a book , to remind me of you . ’ |