Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] they " in BNC.

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31 It soon became apparent to Edward that they were not en route for Westminster .
32 Nevertheless , Seton and his lieutenants , watching from the parapet of the main North Gate , decided that a warning salvo would do no harm , and show Edward that they were not all like the Earl of Dunbar .
33 Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia .
34 The main details of this description are derived from the account of the lift published by Gordon Thomas , the designer of the lift , in a paper to the International Congress on Inland Navigations in 1902 , and later in a private publication of 1904 describing the ‘ Thomas Lift ’ for an exhibition in the U.S.A. Although they are clear general descriptions , they are almost identical and , where applicable , the wording is exactly that of the original patent applications , of 1896/7 .
35 Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd .
36 But , but if he knew , if he knew Ken that they were coming .
37 It was Saturday so they had put up the green fee from four and sixpence to seven and six and she could n't bear to waste the money .
38 The generous niece even booked the couple a £200-a-night room at The Dorchester so they could enjoy the show at the famous London Palladium .
39 His appeal for reconciliation was in marked contrast to the attitude of the Stalinist leader of the ANC in the Natal Midlands , Harry Gwala , who in interviews has said : ‘ We will kill Inkatha if they attack .
40 Barclays , they changed from Barclays to Lloyds and they just
41 He put the back of his hand on each forehead and asked Nellie if they 'd complained about pains in the ear .
42 I looked for one of those sandwich box things for Gerald in Sainsburys and they had n't got one .
43 And erm you know they they they tend to meet before us on a Tuesday and they sort of stay hang around .
44 Notts have a terrific record at home under Mick Walker and they kept it going .
45 probation officer with the state in Texas and they decide they want a trial at monitoring and they ask if I would be interested and so we begin the programme , the first in-house operative programme in Texas , and we set up our programme from scratch and started just kind of working on trial and error trying to make the thing worked .
46 Her have said and she went along , Bobby and they found her so brilliant
47 Spennymoor also visited Willington and they came away with victory thanks to 18 points from Darren Shiel and 15 points from Steve Toman they won 63–39 at Parkside Imps .
48 At Collington Chapel Lane is closed until Friday cos they 're putting a new sewer in there and traffic 's being diverted there along Main Street and at Totton there 's roadworks on Nottingham Road at the junction with Attenborough Lane delays likely there especially at busy times that 'll do us for now we 'll update the traffic for you again in half an hours time .
49 William de Sackville had contracted , or promised , to marry Albreda de Tresgoz , but he had in fact married Adelizia de Vere and they had a daughter , Mabel .
50 fix it up then , cos it , or Andy cos they did a
51 and read and erm and anyway erm and er and I said did you have a good time cos Andy cos they all went to Giles 's eighteenth you know Giles
52 I thought it was Annie , and we 'd go home together and see Marie and they 'd both be proud of me and we could sit in front of the Christmas tree together and guess what the wrapped up presents were , and eat mince pies and all that .
53 Well they were up the road from Donny and they .
54 So I suggest the secretary rings up the secretary of Fenners do n't say you 're listed in newspapers cos industrial people do n't like that but have a word with Fenners and they 'll tell you what 's gone on .
55 The documents that they want to produce will , therefore , determine the software that they will select ; most people , for example , would choose Ventura if they are after long , regularly structured documents as opposed to PageMaker with the reverse being true for free-form material .
56 I contacted Dixons and they were surprised at my findings .
57 ‘ He 's got a two-year-old son called Richard and they were told he had cystic fibrosis .
58 They want the thing to be sorted out properly in Brussels and they want the French authorities to be told in no uncertain terms that it 's their job to control the activities of their farmers .
59 Australia have recalled John Eales to lock the scrum with Rod McCall and they should provide plenty of ball for half-backs Peter Slattery and Tim Wallace .
60 There are New Yorker readers who ca n't understand why I liked Raising Arizona and they still complain to me about it .
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