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