Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] they [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currie 's 19-6 win over Watsonians at Malleny Park gave them their highest finish in three seasons in Division I , but they did not have to be very good to beat a very poor visiting XV . |
| 2 | It is a strange reflection on the lack of modernity in British politics that it took a pillar of the old establishment to tell them they ca n't have both . |
| 3 | At eleven o'clock she had turned on the wireless to hear the old man tell them they were at war with Germany . |
| 4 | Many creatures , too , use visible light to tell them what is happening in the world immediately around them . |
| 5 | Tower Hamlets found that they could not decentralize Social Services , for example , because of the statutory requirement to have a Social Services Committee , but everything else they 've erm within the overall Council policy , which is decided by all the Councillors , they 've decentralized a great deal of the powers down to these local groups of Councillors , and where the Labour control the areas they control these local Councils , and where the Liberal Democrats control them they control them , and I think it 's working very well . |
| 6 | it goes under the nice little saying tell them what you 're going to tell them then tell them and then tell them what you 've told them . |
| 7 | THE Mayor and mayoress were all smiles and kisses during a grand ceremony to hand them their chains of office . |
| 8 | When he admitted his offence to the SFA , poor Willie told them he had taken the drug to alleviate hay fever . |
| 9 | Positive reinforcement tells them what they may and should do ; negative reinforcement tells them what they may not and should not do . |
| 10 | This one-way traffic gives them their uniqueness but also a certain poignant quality : the I is always striving towards the Thou or You , but the second person never replies . |
| 11 | ‘ The BBC received 30,000 postcards from happy holidaymakers telling them they had got it wrong . |
| 12 | When they returned to the office , a stiff-and-starchy female clerk told them they would have to wait . |
| 13 | Certainly , when Yeats chaired the Irish Senate committee that commissioned the Irish coinage ( so wonderfully handsome as it turned out to be ) , it was photographs of Sicilian Greek coins that went out to prospective designers to show them what the committee had in mind . |
| 14 | New recruits ask them what a good idea . |
| 15 | And er really er they themselves thought exactly the same like , but they were talking about other people telling them you know that they could n't get this far but they did . |
| 16 | By the eighteenth century the position in Rome had become so impossible ( since not merely considerable areas around foreign embassies but also churches and the houses of cardinals offered refuge to criminals ) that the papal police had to be equipped with special maps to show them which streets they were permitted to pass through . |
| 17 | Positive reinforcement tells them what they may and should do ; negative reinforcement tells them what they may not and should not do . |