Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] they the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their retail branches are a fixed cost , so the more business they put through them the better . |
| 2 | There is a theory that they brought with them the ancestors of the naturally polled northern breeds such as the Angus and Galloway , but in fact there had been polled cattle in Britain since the Iron Age and they were not necessarily imported — not even from Scandinavia , where many cattle are polled . |
| 3 | They took with them the word ‘ Tabernacle ’ which came to mean in architectural terms a building in rectangular shape , with a Greek temple frontage outside and inside , little decoration and preaching in the conservative , earthy , evangelistic and Calvinistic tradition . |
| 4 | They took with them the 16-year-old Jane as interpreter . |
| 5 | But these are not organised , structured animal societies — they are abnormal explosions of the locust population and they carry with them the seeds of their own downfall , as do modern human populations that are heading in the same direction . |
| 6 | The tips of the spiny ribs pass through special pores as they impale the predator and they carry with them the secretions of nearby glands — glands that cause intensely painful poisoning of the inside of the attacker 's mouth . |
| 7 | They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them . |
| 8 | Unlike the Scandinavian seafarers , however , the sixteenth-century Russians enjoyed an enormous military advantage over the indigenous people they encountered by having guns , and in addition they had behind them the organized power of the centralized state of Muscovy . |
| 9 | The old legends have not only this factor of being immortal , but they have in them the property of conferring the peak experience . |