Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also stated that if no help was forthcoming they might later in the year repeal the international law of first asylum under which the boat people were allowed to apply for refugee status and be given a fair hearing . |
| 2 | Terror gripped the two men as they ran as fast as they could away from the ghostly train towards Elsham signal box . |
| 3 | This landed wealth of Egypt was , later in the fifth century , exploited by rentier Iranian landowners who screwed all they could out of the local peasants : their demands are preserved in Aramaic on leather documents bought in Egypt in 1943–4 and now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford . |
| 4 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 5 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 6 | Days like this , she wished people would drop in for coffee , knowing they would n't after the song and dance she made about needing solitude . |
| 7 | It is just the latest , polite way of saying that whites want to live in Africa , but they ca n't for the life of them get along with Africans . |
| 8 | They can not at the same time absorb and spread the credit risks of their corporate clients as well . |
| 9 | Everyone experiences disturbing life events from time to time , and although they may cause a good deal of psychological distress , they can not on the whole be considered to have a deleterious effect on health . |
| 10 | They say they will spend as much time as they can together in the interests of their children . |
| 11 | Although he was a yearling and still below full weight , he had not the harassed look of most " outskirters " — that is , the rank-and-file of ordinary rabbits in their first year who , lacking either aristocratic parentage or unusual size and strength , get sat on by their elders and live as best they can often in the open — on the edge of their warren . |