Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun pl] [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liberal Democrats did only 1% better in seats where they were second than where they were third . |
| 2 | Most lord lieutenants are scarcely in jobs where they have employers breathing down their necks about time off , but there can be substantial day-to-day expenses . |
| 3 | Many Third World countries owe more in debts than they earn a year from exports : |
| 4 | She was often in tears as they travelled to the various venues , telling her husband that she simply could not face the crowds . |
| 5 | found that when eight-year-olds were asked to justify their judgements , they showed a strong tendency to refer to information about generative transmission , even in conditions where they were supplied only with information about temporal order . |
| 6 | That subletting was widely practised can not be doubted , for not only in the cases examined was the number of proven freeholds relatively small , but , even in regions where they were most numerous they still formed a minority of all holdings . |
| 7 | But even then in boxes if they 're in boxes very rare rarely do you get damage . |
| 8 | Parents have been selected to become erm , relatively insensitive to signs of distress in the offspring , because erm , as where they cry wolf all the time , and as a result , erm , parents do n't take crying as seriously in children as they do in adults . |