Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westerners , on the other hand , attribute to themselves many characteristics they most dislike and , moreover , grant these a powerful explanatory role . |
| 2 | From another encylopedia , this time of African animals , she identified for us some of the small animals they occasionally caught and ate . |
| 3 | She flew back through imagination to the festival at Shadoxhurst , to the dancers , the nonsense words they often chanted as they went through their formations . |
| 4 | Palestinians with relatives still inside Israel could pay two-week visits — many , like Damiani 's wife , have gone wistfully to look from a distance at the homes they once bought and lived in — and the same Israeli spokesman who referred to the Palestinian Arabs as ‘ a community of refugees ’ said that he had himself assisted 40,000 Palestinians to rejoin their families and become Israeli citizens . |
| 5 | Lowe quickly made the telling point that whenever he saw film or photographs of the All Blacks they always looked as grim and serious . |
| 6 | On using the straws they often note and comment on the matchings they have made for colour and/or size . |
| 7 | While it is undoubtedly true that Hindus say there are many gods they also declare that there is but one God , Iśwara , Devādhideva , who is God of gods . |
| 8 | The Conservatives ' desperation to devise a counter-programme for the land , and the disagreements it provoked , demonstrate the degree of confusion which still existed in the Conservative ranks and the immense problems they still faced before the ‘ rampant omnibus ’ of the Great War rescued them by running down their opponents . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ We can therefore expect , on government logic , local Conservative Associations to be taken over by business ratepayers bent on winning control of councils to promote spending on services and goods they either supply or would benefit them . |
| 10 | I mean some people were quite willing to answer it and they were quite willing to say what stereotypes they usually employ and others j er just clam up and said , oh I never judge people , and I thought yeah liar doing all the time ? biggest gossips in the office and she 's never got a good word to say about anyone , she 's always digging the dirt but when I presented her with it , I never try to judge people . |
| 11 | A criticism that has been levelled at clinicians in the past is that they are concerned only with the patients they actually see and not with the wider population . |
| 12 | This did not mean that they were wholly resistant to new ideas — that was clearly not the case because many spoke of the helpful advice and information given on the farming , nutrition , health and child care programmes — but they seemed to resist anything which either conflicted with views they already held or seemed to have no relevance to their experience . |
| 13 | You are listening to what they told you and you got the , the right picture , you know the right facts and the right details and the right emotions so you can go back and cover the right plan of attack so you can sell them products they actually want and not what you think they |
| 14 | Mark turned up at these Sunday classes and despite family differences they soon realised that there was a communion of souls . |
| 15 | Whenever I have argued this point with other anglers they inevitably say that all you need to do is use a long link and a short hook-length when link-legering to obtain the same effect . |
| 16 | But if they do story boards about videos they obviously illustrate and er or design stands or er or backdrops to er a setting . |
| 17 | In the latest situation troops are being drafted in to do jobs they normally do and for which they are trained . |