Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [pron] [vb base] they " in BNC.

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1 This seems particularly the case if we draw them closer together in their positions on determinism , along the lines suggested earlier .
2 Erm the blacksmith and we give them a horseshoe nail .
3 All I do to the Tokais when I get them is put five springs in the back , take the tremolo arm out and tighten all the screws at the bridge and raise the action .
4 She is far more likely to obey the rules if you discuss them with her , so that she knows why you make them .
5 Right , that 's all the Z's multiplied by their corresponding Z's on the pairs and you add them all up .
6 Parents are extremely keen to have their children admitted to the college because they want them to take advantage of the excellent education that it offers .
7 Management is far away in the States and what do they care what happens in Scotland ? ’
8 This new venture seems to hold great promise for the future and we wish them every success .
9 But the kids are full of the future and we help them to plan .
10 Foreshadowing the pressure his party will exert on Labour , Mr Ashdown said at a news conference in the National Liberal Club in London yesterday : ‘ I think they 've got to get down off the fence and I believe they will . ’
11 Foreshadowing the pressure that the Liberal Democrats will exert on Labour , Mr Ashdown said at a news conference in the National Liberal Club in London yesterday : ‘ I think they 've got to get down off the fence and I believe they will . ’
12 ‘ I take over the wheel and we lose them , the whole shooting match . ’
13 The words of the songs , even given the fact that much is lost in translation , are disappointing ; such is the passion and power of the voices that you feel they must be singing about life and death matters .
14 ‘ We thought , ’ put in Bith , who was feeling a bit bolder now that Goibniu had approved their ideas , ‘ we thought that the lady — that is Reflection 's daughter — might like to see the designs before we put them to the forge , your honour . ’
15 ‘ More girls are now attracted to the sport as they realise they could have a career in golf , ’ she stated .
16 We undoubtedly respect the position of the of the adherents as you describe them , undoubtedly .
17 ‘ Then we can go on up the highway until we catch them , ’ Hugh suggested .
18 They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking .
19 but to feel sorry for women and put their view forward because , I mean , you still the situation of a Friday when men go down to the pub and you know they 're all Jack the Lad !
20 Yeah well I me and Margaret should be in the hall but I think they 've assumed that there will be less
21 It 's big enough and besides yer 'll be near the closets when yer need 'em . ’
22 But erm n n not , not the handicrafts that they teach them now at school .
23 A larger group of people stand on the outskirts surveying the spectacle and we join them .
24 And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there .
25 It is easiest to extricate rabbits from the nets if you kill them first .
26 That 's not the way we do things here — you draft the bills and we work them over ’ ( Mullen , 1976 , p. 60 ) .
27 ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’
28 I mean the Bradford Dukes always win at Bradford because I 've heard on the grapevine , not from me , that they 've got little bumps round the bends and they fill them in and only the Bradford riders know whereabouts they are , so they skirt round them .
29 I know the people around me at the moment and I know they work 100 per cent for me .
30 so he goes oh what the hell and they shovel tea down him and erm he starts throwing up and , what happened is that when he , when he gets like cut down they ta take him back to the room and they put them in their boxer shorts just sitting there and they 've wired up a mouse trap to like their their
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