Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been on the committee of the Scottish region , as it was ten called , since 1984 — ‘ they flung me on as naive new blood ’ — — and was vice-chairman for two years before becoming chairman at the tender age of 25 . |
| 2 | They flung themselves on him , yanked his legs back , crossing them so that his knees splayed out . |
| 3 | They flung themselves at sailors in a bid for immortality . |
| 4 | They flung themselves against it . |
| 5 | It is sometimes argued that even if the sentences analysed in linguistics are abstractions , which sometimes sound very odd , they are still the best material for language study , because they isolate it from its context . |
| 6 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 8 | Below , they revealed nothing but a thin haze . |
| 9 | Even an optimist like Alix found people depressing when they revealed themselves in this manner . |
| 10 | This often seemed to be taken to excess and getting drunk or ‘ blind drunk ’ was described as common practice , at least within their world as they revealed it to us . |
| 11 | They skimmed you in an ante-room |
| 12 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |
| 13 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
| 14 | The social convulsions which followed the transfer of agriculture to a capitalist , or at least a large-scale commercialised pattern , loosened the traditional ties of men to the land of their forefathers , especially when they found they owned none of it , or too little to maintain their family . |
| 15 | And when they lay me in my wedding dress on that table , I 'll have my revenge on him ! ’ |
| 16 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 17 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 18 | He turned to face her then , his eyes intent as they met hers for one long minute , and she had the strangest feeling that he was trying to look inside her soul . |
| 19 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 20 | There was a ditch the other side of it , which should present no problems provided they met it on the right stride . |
| 21 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 22 | When they launch themselves into the air they suddenly straighten their bodies and hollow out their lower surfaces . |
| 23 | Young albatrosses on the Leeward Islands spend many days flapping their wings to exercise their muscles and develop their strength , but when they launch themselves into the air , they have to get it right first time . |
| 24 | I think that 's an implication of what they were accusing him of , but were they bringing him to trial for . |
| 25 | The other prisoners gasped because they expected him to be shot on the spot . |
| 26 | ‘ They expected me to be a lawyer too . |
| 27 | But then came the bad weather and the frost — they did n't allow for you being knee-deep in snow — they expected you to be where you should be . |
| 28 | ( Opposite ) Venomous snakes do not bite their victims — they stab them with open mouths , injecting their venom through hollow teeth in the upper jaw . |
| 29 | They got them in Woolworths . |
| 30 | Oh I sh I suppose they might have been but where they were made I , cos I mean you get like they used to b they used to deal in all shoes , no doubt they got them from them . |