Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] they [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 The selectors did know the gender of the artists but they stressed their aim to choose a show that would appeal to a cross section of visitors .
2 led wo late Tranmere strikes made it safe for the Merseysiders as they consolidated their second place in the Division One table .
3 A gentle drumming sound came from the riders as they tapped their saddles with their crops .
4 A project to photograph the birds as they raised their young was launched , and at once became a passion with the younger boys .
5 ( Piontek was coach of denmark in the eigthies when they had their danish dynamite team which impressed in the world cup finals — the team including the likes of in-form Jan Molby , the elder Laudrup brother , Soren Lerby and a very good striker ( whose name slips me right now .
6 There was no doubt in the minds of the directors of the polytechnics as they received their formal designations from the end of the 1960s that the polytechnics were to remain distinctive .
7 It 's now thought a hundred and eighty people were detained by the Iraqis as they made their way to the pick up point for the last British convoy from Kuwait .
8 He hated the Communists because they nicked his family 's bit of land and he hated the Germans because they treated them like pigs , ’ says Peter Solowka .
9 The feeling that something special was about to happen spilled over into an exhibition of appreciation then unparalleled on an English racecourse : the crowd applauded the rivals as they made their way on to the track and burst into cheering as they reached it .
10 Kate was peering out of the windows as they bumped their way on to a farm track and back to the house .
11 Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the .
12 He hates the invaders , from not-all-that-stout Cortes via de Soto , the first to encounter the Cherokees , and the treacherous English and French who made life hell for the Mohawks , right up to the Quebec police who fired on the Mohawks as they protected their remnant of land against the building of a golf course .
13 No warning had been given by the soldiers because they believed their comrades ' lives were in danger and they were under fire from the hijacked car , the hearing was told .
14 No warning was given by the soldiers because they believed their comrades ' lives were in danger and they were under fire from the hijacked car , the hearing had been told .
15 I told the robbers if they wanted my money , they should go upstairs .
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