Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ted who is from Northern Ireland and Joan from Aberdeen were both in the RAF where they met and finally married in 1952 . |
| 2 | It was not known yesterday if the three had returned to Scotland or to the Costa del Sol where they had been living before their arrest . |
| 3 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 4 | Should you want to do some withy and teasel research for yourself , you might visit their willow and wetland centre in Stoke St Gregory where they grow 50 acres of willow and harvest it every winter , when the plants are dormant and the rods measure 8 feet . |
| 5 | out on their own are the crew of Dodo 's Delight … the boat from Oxfordshire that 's sailing around the world … the wrong way against the winds and currents … the crew of old boys from Kingham school have landed in Rio next stop is the Falklands where they plan to be ashore for Christmas Day … |
| 6 | The Romans left fewer substantial marks on what they called Caledonia than they did on southern Britain , largely because so many of their attempts to establish regional centres collapsed when they were recalled to deal with unrest in southern Britain , or even back to Continental Europe and to Rome itself . |
| 7 | The club announced on Tuesday that they made a £1.4m trading loss in the year ending May , 1992 , and they owe the bank £2.2m in loans and overdraft . |
| 8 | According to eyewitness accounts reported in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , about twenty per cent of the buildings and the frescoes of Budhas and Bodhisattvas that they contained have been destroyed in the process of so-called modernisation . |
| 9 | His wife , Elizabeth , has told Mollie that they did not really get the view that it was coming their way until the next week ; but , in fact , it was . |
| 10 | Amy popped her head round the door to tell Kathleen that they had found some ID on the track and the police had brought his parents in . |
| 11 | Diplomatically the Avignon popes gave more to Edward than they gained from him , and by their intervention , first to save his favourites and then to bring about peace with Scotland and with France , the terms of which were not relished by the people , the papacy went further towards gaining that ill-reputation which dogged it in fourteenth-century England . |
| 12 | It was in 1863 at the farmhouse at Camerone in Mexico that they had fought their most spectacular action . |
| 13 | In the same article , art historian Mina Gregori said of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ at Parma that they had lost their Romanesque contours and were now quite indistinguishable ; later she wrote that : ‘ Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ are now ruined : unsightly puppets robbed of their Romanesque contours ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He put the back of his hand on each forehead and asked Nellie if they 'd complained about pains in the ear . |
| 18 | I looked for one of those sandwich box things for Gerald in Sainsburys and they had n't got one . |
| 19 | Notts have a terrific record at home under Mick Walker and they kept it going . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Her have said and she went along , Bobby and they found her so brilliant |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | fix it up then , cos it , or Andy cos they did a |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 27 | He had n't seen his uncle since Friday and they had no idea where he was . ’ |
| 28 | if he 's setting it up if they 're not bringing while Friday and they set it up give you time to set it up |
| 29 | They had a lot of joiners up from Paisley and they employed a lot of local labour as well . |
| 30 | By birth a Cavan man ( from Bailieborough ) , Leonard is married to Pat and they have two grown-up children . |