Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Day after day many of them sit at desks confined by four walls , their eyes glued to figures , their minds hassled by the problems of business . |
| 2 | You know because we often talk to artists and we ask you know how it happened and and most of them say like topsy it just grew er that that there 's no planned career but with you with the tours er set and the album set it it seems to be more of a controlled career with you two . |
| 3 | At times in the past there must have been tenderness between the members of this family ; the old lady had conceived and given birth to two children , nursed them and watched them grow into adult life . |
| 4 | And , as subscribers with decades ' worth of Punch purchasing behind them testify on pages 56–59 , the effect was a bit like the first plunge into an icy pool : shocking at first , but pleasantly bracing once you got used to it . |
| 5 | ( David Rockefellers older brother Nelson , who had recently died , had been almost a friend of the Shah ) Would either of them fly to Morocco and tell the Shah that the US government preferred that he did not come to America right now ? |
| 6 | Both of them speak of Jesus having four brothers — Joseph , Simon , James and Jude — as well as at least two sisters . |
| 7 | Some patients may not have friends or relatives able to give them support at home , or may live in unsuitable accommodation . |
| 8 | It is the fervour and ecstasy with which many of them listen to music and songs . |
| 9 | ‘ I believe that if the Institute were to make one of its inspections , it would not find anything to give them cause for concern over the way in which we have conducted our professional work , ’ Ms Harris says . |
| 10 | Once you have started in your job , you may find it difficult to get to a bank during banking hours — even though we have extended opening hours on Mondays to Friday at many or our branches , and you will now find a number of them open on Saturdays until 3.30pm . |
| 11 | All it can do is to cling to the roof of its gallery and there hundreds of them hang in rows . |
| 12 | Many of them link with databases , report writers and spreadsheet facilities so that you can present data from them in a visual form . |
| 13 | It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe . |
| 14 | In Daniel Waley 's admirable Italian City-Republics there is a map featuring some sixty or seventy Italian towns with a history worth recording in the mid and late Middle Ages ; of these roughly half could reasonably be called ‘ hill towns ’ , and most of them lie in Umbria and Tuscany . |
| 15 | The name of the writer Paul Goma , for instance , was enough to make both of them spit with rage . |
| 16 | So a lot of , a lot of them tell like fairy tales , a lot of people tell fairy tales for young , at young children , it 's all aimed at young children when they 're not old enough to understand what 's truth and what is n't they 're not old , they 're not in their own understanding yet when they 're children so they sort of , not in their conscious sense anyway |
| 17 | It intends to demo the stuff at NeXt World next week and then sell them separate from NeXtstep . |
| 18 | In addition to their obvious banking business , however , many of them advise on aspects of corporate finance , coming to public notice with large privatisations and contested take-over bids . |
| 19 | Even television programmes will have fewer scene changes , and already many of them deal with retirement in a humorous way — ‘ Waiting for God ’ and ‘ One Foot in the Grave ’ for example . |
| 20 | Until an hour or two ago I certainly did n't know that this problem had arisen , but the date April has been on the lips of my er Honourable Friend er and of the Noble Minister er I used to represent part of the City of Leeds and Honourable er a and Noble Lord you 'll have heard recently of behaviour at Elland Road Football Ground on the death of Sir Matt Busby and one can only wonder what sort of people er we 're dealing with , but many of them arrive at Leeds City Station on the day of a match and they come early and they have then to get their way to Elland Road and there are often real problems . |
| 21 | Do some of them believe in gods that exist and others believe in gods that do n't exist ? |
| 22 | He gave a dinner to Lord Palmerston and others at which he put the bailiffs , who were in possession of his house , in livery , and had them officiate as waiters — reminiscent of the bailiffs ' scene in The God-Natured Man . |
| 23 | Juliet took the cup and saucer and watched them go into Room C. She waited for the shouts of anger , the loud crying , but all remained quiet . |
| 24 | Many of them go to north Africa , where Slorne comes from . |
| 25 | ‘ But I believe most of them go to gardeners . |
| 26 | Apart from anything else it is self-defeating to nurture girl children , to teach them self-respect and self-defence , and then have to watch them go to war with men and boys whose ideas are left unchallenged . |
| 27 | The needs of local populations , their service objectives and the most effective ways of achieving them differ between areas . |
| 28 | Paradoxically these works gain in subtlety of gesture and meaning as they gain in size . |
| 29 | On the other hand , what they gain in power they lose in speed and mobility . |
| 30 | It would be more effective to involve people by education , by making them part of the system so that they gain from helping , to give them a vested interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem and the wildlife around them — very much cheaper than a law force , WWF and CITES secretariats . |