Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember their contact demands that they provide you with an office desk and telephone facility for three weeks |
| 2 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 3 | I could read ‘ Nike ’ quite clearly on his trainers until they disappeared one after the other into the Shogun . |
| 4 | And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto |
| 5 | I looked into his eyes and they reminded me of the saying ‘ The lights were on but there was nobody home . |
| 6 | Superficially , CAB workers have a twofold task : they interview clients and they supply them with information and advice . |
| 7 | The young mouth the old words but they mean nothing by them . |
| 8 | They would have nothing to do with recognised ‘ sinners ’ such as tax-collectors because they considered them to be immoral . |
| 9 | The central figure is the child , Little Nell , who deeply engaged the sympathies of contemporary readers as they followed her through the hardships of her pilgrimage , made in company with the senile grandfather whom she strives to protect , from the London curiosity shop to the sanctuary of a village where her sufferings end in a peaceful death . |
| 10 | He was dressed in a wide-sleeved ceremonial gown of dark silk and a soft hat embroidered with coloured threads partly hid his face from Lan and her brothers as they followed him through the doorway , walking barefoot between their father and mother . |
| 11 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 12 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 13 | Then she heard all of them , crashing through brush and low branches as they followed her towards the road . |
| 14 | It 's no consolation to those involved in Monday 's canoeing tragedy , but British school trips have an impressive safety record and schools are keen to assure parents that they do everything in their power to ensure the wellbeing of pupils in their care . |
| 15 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 16 | ‘ The few who decide to stay on board can still attend normal surgeries if they feel it to be necessary , and the likelihood of a real emergency developing in the meantime is pretty remote . |
| 17 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 18 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
| 19 | It squeaked and jingled on its hinges as they swung it behind them . |
| 20 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 21 | Cos they had the , the expensive yarns and they produced them on these machines with very little waste . |
| 22 | They were dressed in long dark raincoats and wore dark felt hats and they addressed themselves to my father , ignoring the rest of us . |
| 23 | It 's looking good but it 's down to us They 've convinced dealers that they have something worth selling … even in a recession . |
| 24 | Ultraviolet light is so important to insects that they use it as a main component of their colour vision . |
| 25 | Its early days but they expect him to be in hospital for about two months . |
| 26 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 27 | 3pm : IRN feeds broadcast ‘ down the line ’ to local radio stations as they record it for their own broadcasts . |
| 28 | In a pilot experiment subjects attempted to describe films as they watched them in the way described by Hughes and Cole . |
| 29 | I give them lollipops , so they perform enthusiastically , showing us the speed of their boats as they skiff them through the water and how many stones they can carry before sinking . |
| 30 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |