Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories may have shaken up British Telecom because they dislike a state-run monopoly that seems to care more for itself than its customers ; but the main impact on BT has little to do with monopolies or state ownership . |
| 2 | ‘ YOU really went over the top today , Charlie , ’ grinned the Captain to the Old Stager as they reassembled for the match . |
| 3 | Two goals from Butt and one from Beckham , with McCall pulling one back for Palace , were enough to silence an enthusiastic crowd of 7,825 and give United a two-goal advantage for their return leg at Old Trafford as they challenge for a record seventh Youth Cup win . |
| 4 | There were excited exclamations at the sight of the returned Emily and they flocked round her desk to welcome her back and pass on the gossip of the preceding week . |
| 5 | As night fell they had turned their backs on the rush and excitement of the Expo and returned to the old Seville where they had dined by candlelight in a small pavement café and watched the world rush by . |
| 6 | But we also want people to understand what is happening in places like Latin America so they have a better awareness of why Oxfam is trying to help . |
| 7 | Rothstein argues that patron-client relationships are well suited to the peripheral capitalist development that has taken place in Latin America because they are a way of paring down the number of recipients of industrial gains , when these gains are few in number . |
| 8 | Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ? |
| 9 | And Ipswich travel to Highbury on Boxing Day , followed by a visit from high-flying Blackburn as they attempt to launch their own counter-offensive . |
| 10 | At Prague airport , Anderson is searched thoroughly for Hollar 's thesis but nothing is found ( scene fifteen ) , the explanation being , as Anderson reveals to an indignant McKendrick once they have boarded the plane ( scene sixteen ) , that he has hidden it in McKendrick 's briefcase . |
| 11 | The Croats are trying to carve out as much of central Bosnia as they can get . |
| 12 | The NORTH U21s , managed by Dave Parker , enjoyed their biennial pre-season tour to Marvejols in Central France where they were hosted for their week long visit by French families as the result of town twinning with Cockermouth , and the fantastic hospitality and often adventurous leisure activities were enjoyed not only by the players but also by referee Fred Howard , who officiated in the first two matches . |
| 13 | There airport bookstalls play the role of the railway bookstalls of Victorian Britain and they carry a far wider range of books than those of England 's railway stations today . |
| 14 | They want to be in a free and democratic Iraq where they can vote for their leaders and have a democratically accountable Parliament . |
| 15 | The flowers still bloomed as brightly in early September as they had in July , the crowds still sat in the open-air cafés . |
| 16 | For thousands of years the marmots had lived on the banks of the lake in Central Asia where they played host to a flea called xenopsylla cheopsis and a tiny bacillus , or disease , called pasteurella pestis , with no dramatic consequences to any of them , and not the slightest impact on the rest of the world . |
| 17 | I 'm going to ver the well the information I impart now is in brief Richard because they will certainly cover it in a lot more detail when you get to the er training . |
| 18 | Among the speakers who had convinced the Bosnian Serbs that they must hold out against the world was a guest of honour , a painter called Milic Od Macve . |
| 19 | The youths will also study at the University of Southwestern Louisiana where they will be able to improve their employment opportunities . |
| 20 | The Turks took advantage of the situation to reoccupy Serbia and they exacted a terrible vengeance on the helpless Serbs . |
| 21 | The babies ' dense woolly down is essential in their native Antarctica as they huddle together in freezing temperatures and howling winds . |
| 22 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 23 | The two strongest left-wing guerrilla groups , the National Liberation Army ( ELN ) and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces ( FARC ) , reportedly informed journalists in late December that they were ready to hold peace talks with the government [ see p. 37772 ] . |
| 24 | Cruising Altitude passed the pacemaking Floyd as they crossed the final hurdle and he looked all set for a comfortable victory . |
| 25 | We pray for the governments and peoples of eastern Europe as they enter a new era ; for Africa , that its peoples may be delivered from fear , oppression and famine , especially in Ethiopia and Sudan ; for the Israeli and Palestinian people that they may honour each other and seek the common good ; |
| 26 | The wolves have been coming in from eastern Europe where they fled to escape hunters and human population expansion . |
| 27 | This forced the purse-seine fleet to fish outside the eastern Pacific and they successfully caught tuna without encircling dolphins . |
| 28 | Contra leaders were threatening by late April that they would refuse to disarm and demobilize their forces until the Sandinista Popular Army ( EPS ) had begun to be demobilized and its High Command retired . |
| 29 | So how would the mere existence of Labour Party membership cards in the North prevent the electorate voting themselves into a United Ireland if they so desired ? |
| 30 | These are very important Orcs and they are known as the Big'uns . |