Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun] they [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Last Meal in the Old Home ’ , like a Pre-Raphaelite painting , the three orphans and the grieving servant seated in melancholy around the old table , using the old knives and forks they would never use again . |
| 2 | Because N may be either headlights or darkness they could also produce the sentence The darkness penetrated the headlights . |
| 3 | Joseph Glanvil , for example , believed that if people gave up belief in ghosts and witches they would soon also give up God , and he investigated some supposedly haunted houses . |
| 4 | With these oilskins and boots they 'd just come home and drop them outside the door and go indoors . |
| 5 | Thus if there are problems or difficulties they can almost always be solved by discussion . |
| 6 | As the new group begins to develop a clear idea of its own aims and objectives they might well decide to produce a video film of their own to explain their story . |
| 7 | In his preaching , stories are better than exhortations , ‘ for country people are thick and heavy , and need a mountain to kindle them , but stories and sayings they will well remember ’ . |
| 8 | Two and a half million people are saddled with hire purchase agreements and mortgages they can no longer afford , and although fewer homes are being repossessed the debts eventually have to be paid . |
| 9 | What it did was to compensate working citizens for the loss of wages or earnings they would otherwise have suffered . |
| 10 | Even so , the Russians suffered possibly as many as 100,000 casualties and some 45,000 men taken prisoner ; they also forfeited 200 guns and great quantities of supplies and ammunition they could ill afford to lose . |