Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [adv] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This was equally true of the teachers , since they , together with the headmaster , could have decided to stop my research whenever they felt it threaten them ; equally , if they had accepted me with open arms it would have meant that the boys would not have trusted me greatly . ’ |
| 2 | But wh , my argument why they did n't cancel that cheque |
| 3 | ‘ One dog jumped up and bit off my ear then they pulled me to the ground . |
| 4 | Can I ask is it because it was too small a group , or is it because no one can make up their mind where they belong ? |
| 5 | They make it easier for teachers to use the video machine without being tied to its side whenever they want to stop or start it . |
| 6 | When the landlord 's agents and the militia arrived , the tenants offered the whole of next year 's rent in advance if only Mrs. Pedelty would leave them at peace ; it had taken half an hour to get word to her of this offer and to bring back her refusal Then they asked for compensation for the land they had cleared and she sent back to say if they persisted in the claim she would sue for dilapidation and waste . |
| 7 | We 've had a debate on Local Management of Schools opposed by the Labour Party where we have seen that the right to choose their own children 's quality of education and where school governing bodies can direct their cash where they want has been extremely popular . |
| 8 | When they were in their room together they agreed that Sister Dew was ‘ a bit of a trial ’ and that seemed to draw them together . |
| 9 | oh you should n't let them , er , and the , the thing is somebody else argues on their behalf then they think they can get away with it more |
| 10 | And I remember when I was a nipper , er er being up there and they had , they always had a box in the back of their caravan where they kept two or three hens , and , and , and er they used to have this game bird . |
| 11 | Unionists did though make war service a main plank of their electioneering whenever they had the chance . |
| 12 | The Germans are a peaceful people , but they have a right to live , and to live as Germans , and they are convinced of the fact that they have a mission for all the nations of the earth ; if one hinders them from fulfilling their mission then they have the right to use force . |
| 13 | On their way downstairs they passed Brian , who was on his way up . |
| 14 | On their way out they found it nose down in the field . |
| 15 | On their way out they found it nose down in the field . |
| 16 | On their way out they opened up a tool-box and took out a long slender chisel apiece . |
| 17 | You can almost hear their conversation then they get back home … |
| 18 | They 're a big company in Brussels , and they got , they got their office where they like . |
| 19 | As much as they 're on his side however they say the honeymoon is coming to an end . |
| 20 | For those who missed his performance in They Came And Ate Us it must be said that this was n't a very nice demon at all . |
| 21 | Her fair hair was so long that it touched his hand whenever they sat side by side . |
| 22 | In his time there they won the Division One title and were winners and runners-up in the Challenge Cup Final at Wembley . |
| 23 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 24 | ’ They virtually killed off our season when they beat us in the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge last year , but now we have the incentive of setting up another Mersey derby if we win . ’ |
| 25 | He said ooh , he said there was some American students here last week and they were all swimming in there and the man came along with this thing and they bo they were all sat on the middle lo middle of there with their feet dangling in the water splashing away , he said I was dragging this down and this six footer came out , I said , and then they were he said , you 've never seen anybody run so fast in your life like they go |
| 26 | If we look at the look at the role that women play in our society today they have a very heavy burden already placed |
| 27 | When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up . |