Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Either the seeds blew in — or someone planted them as a joke , ’ said a senior officer .
2 Who were extremely keen to locate in this county , everything was right for them , Mr Allenby 's borough had the site , my clients had the site should I say , and erm but we lost it to Humberside because it was not possible for either Harrogate or ourselves to look them in the eye and say yes we can guarantee planning consent .
3 During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months .
4 The patches can then be located where you want them among the preamp 's memory locations ( or programs ) , and then called up by a MIDI pedal .
5 ‘ Either we terrorise them into submission , or we abandon them to the vacuum of a permissive existence .
6 To a lesser degree they still exist nearer home ; in the Alps herdsmen take their cattle to the ‘ Alm ’ meadows where they tend them during the summer , and in Scotland and Wales the hill sheep spend half the year on the mountain commons whilst the lower , enclosed land grows winter keep .
7 Or they put them under the wrong door .
8 I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine
9 ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot .
10 As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case .
11 Again , like Microsoft , WordPerfect UK would rather that you contacted them for an upgrade .
12 If you use this method , make certain that you write them on the board before the talk and that your writing is legible .
13 Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call .
14 It 's quicker to sort those rather than those because what tends to happen is that you process them as an entity rather than as single figures .
15 So you told 'em about the Regal Arms . ’ ,
16 If salmon is still the rich man 's herring , one can no longer think of herrings as the poor man 's salmon for they have become so expensive that one buys them by the troy ounce .
17 Although we know them in the UK as mushroom corals , the common name of this species is something of a misnomer .
18 My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 !
19 As the hon. Gentleman knows , whenever we make comparisons the figures that we quote are adjusted backwards to ensure that we quote them on a truly comparable basis in all instances .
20 McAllion ) very seriously and I suggest that we debate them in a sensible manner .
21 We decided we did n't really like a lot of our clothes , so we replaced them with a few very simple things . ’
22 Our horses had more sense and refused to go further so we stabled them at a local inn where we satisfied our hunger on a dish of fish cooked over charcoal before making our way up to the castle .
23 Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner .
24 The C E C when they 're talking about motions sometimes say that they accept them with the qualification and I 'd like to say to Congress this morning will you accept a qualification from the branch moving this to say that we are talking about groups of members and their needs not individuals ?
25 Bodies have welcomed particularly this component of the application procedures , stating that it provides them with a good reference point for budgetary control through the course of their financial years .
26 What is most important , however , is that he embodies them in a distinction , crucially important for his thought , between two sorts of science : ‘ indefinite science ’ , which ‘ consists in the knowledge of the causes of all things ’ , and the study of some ‘ limited ’ question about the ‘ cause of some determined appearance ’ such as heat .
27 Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour .
28 It was not the case that he neglected domestic issues — least of all in the period 1963 – 65 — but rather that he saw them within the larger framework of France 's relations with the world .
29 I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea .
30 After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base .
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