Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 2 | No sooner had she begun manufacturing a few defences than he demolished them with a flick of his finger . |
| 3 | Aye , we 'll just have a wee few minutes before we set them up . ’ |
| 4 | And I 'll go through some strengths that we feel they have and the monopoly obviously is one of the er major strengths . |
| 5 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 6 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 7 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 8 | I 'm just gon na go down and get some eggs cos I forgotten them . |
| 9 | Working-class women , particularly , may see few relatives but they see them more often , a fact not revealed by the data in table 6.7 . |
| 10 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 11 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 12 | I want some answers and I want them now . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I want some answers and I want them now . ’ |
| 14 | In special circumstances we 'll cover some expenses and we pay them a token fee , which a lot of guests donate to charity . |
| 15 | And er little history of that , that was sunk by some Irishmen and they reckon they sank the iri they sank that pit without the aid of a plumb-bob. how true it is . |
| 16 | This restricts the applicability of such rules since it renders them unavailable to any linguist interested in diachronic change or synchronic variation in a language . |
| 17 | Now that was certainly the views of the President of the Board of Trade before er he er returned to the cabinet er at another time and I 'm not sure if he 's departed from these views but I think they 're worthy of some weight . |
| 18 | In Ballachulish an old man , who had no recollection of the jackdaws , told me , ‘ We all have our names for these mountains but they call them different now . ’ |
| 19 | Now erm the wealthy peasants or and sort of and , and other people who , who were possibly sort of er small landlords , they were trying to get involved in these associations because they felt they , they could see they were gathering pace and that the , the cost of exclusion would be very high . |
| 20 | well they were they was rolling in all the muck in the farmyard but they , they went to the pies just put their noses round them and turned them over and then they s and true as god made little apples they started walking round these pies and they left them and they were still there when we went away . |
| 21 | He thinks that we will never deal intelligently with these questions if we confuse them with questions about what is good in itself . |
| 22 | these things unless you tell them |
| 23 | I also take the point Mr has made , and only assure you that we will look at these figures when we get them and take on board the sorts of comments that have just been made by yourself and Mr and by and use them with our judgement applied liberally . |
| 24 | However , you may be surprised at just how much you can find out from these references if you approach them with an open mind . |
| 25 | And of course , he 's searching for these chemicals because he believes they will make him well again . |
| 26 | But you want to try these pickups before you dismiss them out of hand . |
| 27 | Elsewhere , the company is persuading people to take just one paper napkin instead of the traditional handful ( usage is down by 40 per cent at one US example ) and asking them to help themselves to just as many vegetables as they think they 'll realistically eat . |
| 28 | It took them I ca n't remember how many hours but it took them a long time . |
| 29 | They learned that if they blew and sucked a little at all baits before they accepted them , the safe ones moved easily and the dangerous ones did not . |
| 30 | I make the distinction of ‘ pub drinkers ’ because home drinkers often pour much larger so-called singles and therefore consume at least as many calories as they think they are taking in — frequently even more . |