Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Them funny statues they make with no eyes in and titchy little things are so we wo n't know what they 're really like .
2 Unless the clergy want my complete damnation they can ask for no more .
3 It 's my old sea-chest they want , but I 'll show them !
4 and the new baby , remember when I told you about Andrew my cousin , my favourite cousin they reckoned I 'd fancied him ?
5 and the new baby , remember when I told you about Andrew my cousin , my favourite cousin they reckoned I 'd fancied him ?
6 She grew up with eight brothers , ’ which was like having nine fathers really , including my real father They were so bossy ’ .
7 Indeed , once , shortly after lunch , I recall I came upon the two gentlemen talking rather furtively just inside the library doorway , and it was my distinct impression they broke off their discussion upon my approach .
8 To my great delight they all did comfortably worse than Arosa .
9 All large , cheerful girls in their late teens , to my great relief they wore long skirts and mats around their waists , tied as tradition dictates with a braided kiekei band .
10 And my brother and my grandfather used to and my great grandfather they all took helped on the loch you see .
11 But people are gon na miss my blooming speech they 'll miss it .
12 I went mad , he said well accidents happen , I said not with my fucking dad they do n't not to my dad I said I 'll tell you what Mr if I 'd have known then what I know now I would n't even let you operate , I would n't Joy I would have said leave him alone , I wished he 'd have died when the
13 Bernadette : With my other babies they 've mostly left them quite close to me , but she was put over to the side , the doctor was slow in coming , and she went over and checked her over , instead of coming to speak to me as they usually do — she went out again and did n't even look at me [ laughs ] …
14 So strategic was the city 's position that the present inhabitants claim that the dwellers were a people in their own right even by the time of the Roman conquest , and that when Julius Caesar gave them Roman citizenship they were already famed as an industrious , peaceable , practical people with a legendary ability to confront any misadventures with incredible resources of energy .
15 When bream patrol their feeding routes they frequently display themselves at the surface .
16 But if they follow their usual form they will do nothing , because they are prepared to accept medieval barbarity rather than strain trade relations . ’
17 They need to know that they can give you your professional , their professional attention they will not make it compulsively , the majority party of what went wrong this is you were no longer the majority party .
18 Their bloody tongues they 'd have been , they 'd have been as thick as these tables by end of day .
19 Some snakes lose their tail-tips with comparative ease , under duress , but unlike their four-legged relatives they are incapable of any regrowth .
20 For their trireme warships they used the steering technique of an external oar and this copied in today 's dragon boats .
21 I thought the Danakil an attractive-looking people , and despite their murderous reputation they appeared to manifest a genuine friendliness .
22 However , traditionally , it was generally believed that , as a consequence of the wording of ss. 141 and 142 , once landlords assigned their reversionary interest they could only sue or be sued by the original tenant .
23 Which British museum they going to ?
24 From their direct observations they absorb a model of marriage .
25 She pulled away and walked ahead of him along the corridor , hearing the measured tread of his footsteps as he followed , and to her over-sensitive ears they seemed to match exactly the pounding , thudding beat of her heart .
26 But if people want to keep their old tyres they can . ’
27 Parents would not see their children for most of the day , and when they finished their daily work they would be too tired for much except rest .
28 In their timeless silence they endured his scrutiny , revealing nothing .
29 Particularly in their polemical passages they have a freshness and directness , such assurance that the world is now their oyster , that it is easy to forget that they did not go uncriticized .
30 They believed , you see , that the tortoise was an animal of great purity — in its hard-soft form they saw the meeting of Yin and Yang , of Heaven and Earth .
  Next page