Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the intention in this study was to have subjects make estimates while they were driving it was decided that this would be unnecessarily difficult . |
| 2 | You would n't want , for example , the heads of our elderly people 's homes to be sat in their offices pushing paper when they should be managing the home . |
| 3 | Dr Martin Orne of the University of Pennsylvania told subjects to fake hypnosis and they easily fooled the hypnotist . |
| 4 | The polytechnics support vouchers because they believe that the system will give them parity of resources with the universities by allowing them to compete for students on equal terms . |
| 5 | Like mustard gas , the nitrogen mustards caused blisters when they came into contact with skin , and they damaged many other tissues when they were absorbed or injected into the circulating blood . |
| 6 | The quality of the additional research was such that the tobacco manufacturers informed Stivoro that they wanted to drop the lawsuit . |
| 7 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 8 | Allowed opportunities to save face when they punished children |
| 9 | Figure 6.5a shows the thin pointed region through which trajectories leave B if they start inside the rectangle ABCD on the top face of B. Combining eqn ( 6.4 ) with ( 6.3 ) we obtain where ( 0 , n* ) is the point on the top face of B where the unstable manifold of the origin returns to the stable manifold of the origin when r = r* . |
| 10 | They , indeed , were the first animals to master flight and they did so some two hundred million years before birds managed to do the same thing . |
| 11 | Patterson trained her subjects to ask questions when they found that they could not choose between competing referents . |
| 12 | His eyes glinted gold as they devoured her . |
| 13 | And erm I did n't get the actual job I went for but they put me on the , on the relief register so that I go round to different people 's homes or different big hospitals and different Mencap homes relieving people when they 're on holiday or if they 're short of staff or something like that . |
| 14 | He also warned Lithuanians and other Soviet peoples contemplating independence that they should reflect " a thousand times " . |
| 15 | Instead , ducks catch pests before they attack the rice and their manure fertilizes the soil . |
| 16 | I had thought that builders built houses when they thought they thought they could sell them , I did n't realize it was part of some altruistic policy of complying with planning policy , still we learn everything every day , do n't we ? |
| 17 | His breath forms smoke clouds as they are released from his tight pouting lips . |
| 18 | Miners became miners because they lived in Cornwall ; grinders became grinders because they lived in Sheffield . |
| 19 | We called up all the record companies to see shows and they let us go and see all the shows because we had American accents and we were crazy . |
| 20 | Many fruits change colour as they reach maturity and this can be a useful indicator , although not in every case : apples will often colour up early if occupied by a burrowing pest , some pear varieties only change colour once in store and marrows are past their best when they turn yellow . |
| 21 | In the latter case , however , the commissioners give consideration because they refrain from pursuing the threatened proceedings . |
| 22 | Commuters read paperbacks as they sit in trains , but find that they may need to rest from this activity more frequently than when they are reading in a comfortable and well-lit place at home . |
| 23 | 683 , 688E–F , 690C , the visitors expressed doubts whether they had power to hold the findings of a disciplinary tribunal to be invalid . |
| 24 | Our reforms have cut away the barriers that meant many breadwinners lost money if they went to work . |
| 25 | FIRE CREWS took cover after they came under attack from stone-throwing youths last night . |
| 26 | Clare Stevens and Mark Mascal , both members of Nottingham Cathedral Group , thumbed across seven European countries collecting signatures as they went , and raising £1,000 for Amnesty International . |
| 27 | I feel that not a enough emphasis has been put on the vows that er parents take and the responsibility the minister has in administering those vows and therefore I support er the new amendment because of this , that it offers er a form of evangelism without the risk of having the parents taking vows that they do not er that they can not keep . |
| 28 | The successful companies take risks because they have Profitbosses to whom they can delegate , whom they can trust to make " risk-decisions " on their behalf . |
| 29 | The educators at home and at school are on their guard , wary of , yet understanding their secrecies and confidences , and in particular the need for such youngsters to take risks as they strike out towards independent adulthood . |
| 30 | Most hill-walkers ' wildlife experiences take place as they mow down interesting species caught in the glare of their XR2 's headlights on the way home from a hill . |