Example sentences of "they [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 2 | This became clear when , in an attempt to investigate further the nature of the personal pronoun constraint on the non-standard concord rule , all occurrences of they as subject in the speech of 12 speakers were collected ( N=310 ) , from which only one example was discovered of a singular verb : |
| 3 | COMMUTERS from Essex to London have been urged to keep their cool as they as face up to today 's nightmare journey to work caused by the national one-day rail strike . |
| 4 | I mean that 's ridiculous , the money he 's on they 'll cripple him , they 'd absolutely nail him would n't they for money ? |
| 5 | How desperate were they for work ? |
| 6 | And they were noted were n't they for rubbish . |
| 7 | ‘ Are they for sale ? ’ |
| 8 | Are they for show ? |
| 9 | Are they worth while for relatively small sums you know you talked about ten thousand over the hundred and fifty . |
| 10 | they of course tended to believe in the country . |
| 11 | As the Helliwell sisters always had the pick of the best jobs , they of course lived there while working in London . |
| 12 | Marry they of course did , and now the honours came fast . |
| 13 | They of course |
| 14 | If these forecasts are correct , and they of course ignore the inertia of the system , and the immense social capital invested in cities , then the population and employment changes revealed by this chapter are only the precursors of a massive recolonization of the countryside , not only in the UK but also the USA ( Fisher and Mitchelson , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Unless they of course there were different sorts of that you know even . |
| 16 | And I always find it extremely amusing that the government of this country screams about Brussels wanting to centralize everything when they of course , are the most centralizing British government , the present conservatives , that we 've ever known . |
| 17 | As for the Jews of the biblical period , they of course knew of Yavan , which designated all the Greeks rather than specifically the Ionians . |
| 18 | Perhaps the dead body of the loved one expresses all the pathos of this absence , the helplessness of being watched , and not knowing Actors are paid to pretend that they are unaware of being watched , but they of course rely on the collusion of the watcher , and nearly always get it . |
| 19 | What about the ploughs themselves , now , they of course are all handmade specially for the match , |
| 20 | But the town workers , they of course arc in harness with the factory masters and proprietors of industry , and they want cheap corn . ’ |
| 21 | Thus in the period when Labour was still in opposition in the early part of the war — September 1939 to May 1940 — there were twenty-one by-elections , but only six Labour candidates were put up and they of course were for the previously Labour-held seats : two of these were unopposed and the other four faced candidates of fringe groups , who did not poll well . |
| 22 | It 's another of his ideas which he keeps trying to interest people in ; he has a manuscript on the subject ( ‘ The State of the Fart ’ ) which he also sends away to London to publishers now and again and which they of course send back by return . |
| 23 | Proprietary clubs are often limited companies , and if so , they of course sue or are sued in their corporate name . |
| 24 | If we were then to get to a position like Dorset County Council , who have no debts , they of course can spend a hundred percent of the money they realise from assets . |
| 25 | If they are considering a financial penalty , then they of course have to have regard to the defendant 's means . |
| 26 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 27 | Local members as , er appreciate with this paper will be kept informed and will also I should of said the Chairman of the Transport and Road Safety Sub Committee , because the process of consultation wo n't work effectively unless local views are heard and they of course can be heard through the local member . |
| 28 | The second reason is immigration , where we gained on balance about half a million people and they of course were mostly young , they had their families here , so that they gave the impression of having very high birthrates . |
| 29 | In that task I am assisted by a team of six managers , all of whom are professional nurses and district nurses or health visitors and they of course are there to advise me on professional issues , and to share with me the management task of using the resources of Oxford City in the way that we feel is best appropriate , and in doing that , I think one of the important things for us to do , I do n't think we do it quite as well as we should , is to work more closely with the local council , and to look really at what the needs of our local communities are for health , and to try and make sure that the feelings that might well be expressed by individuals , either individually , or through caring associations , or through other statutory agencies , or through voluntary health organisations , are actually given a chance to be there , and to influence our , that official policy and constituents , and to , to influence the planning process . |
| 30 | Each club of growers , be they of lettuce , tomato , carrots or some other crop , meets with the project manager to discuss how the basic ICMS methods can be applied to their particular crop . |