Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | but they did n't explode , so the RAF lads said they were made of macaroni . |
| 2 | EPA officials say they do n't know who prepared what 's come to be known as the EPA 's hit-list . |
| 3 | Queensland aborigines believe they can sing a man to death , and indeed recently managed to sing the state 's premier — a white man , a New Zealand migrant who cared little for ‘ black fellows ’ — out of office . |
| 4 | A recent survey of BHRCA members found they had joined principally because they wanted an effective voice to put the industry 's case to Government . |
| 5 | Hounslow councillors say they had been under the impression that relations between them and the police were slowly improving , although Mr Wetzel and John Connolly , the influential chair of housing , continue to boycott the statutory police consultative group . |
| 6 | Milton Keynes police believe they know who his killer is … and with more help from the public they 'll be able to make an arrest . |
| 7 | How dare the Nottinghamshire police suppose they can throw their weight around in this way ? |
| 8 | IBM Corp has a less than impressive record in turning developments in its laboratories into commercial products , but perhaps that will change when an outsider is installed at the helm , and IBM researchers say they have developed a polymer film that can capture and hold vast amounts of data in the form of hologram images at speeds 100 to 1,000 times faster than current Winchester disk drives . |
| 9 | Barnes officials say they expect to send about eighty paintings from one of the world 's finest collections of Post-Impressionist and early modern art to tour four museums : the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , a museum in Tokyo , the Musée d'Orsay in Paris , and the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 10 | After five year 's research , the USGs geologists reckon they know what happened in California . |
| 11 | At a meeting in Edinburgh COSLA leaders said they needed an extra seven point three per cent on top of the five point two billion pounds local councils spent last year . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that so many North Americans feel they were born to shop . |
| 13 | Chester police said they had received no report of the incident . |
| 14 | Burnley police insisted they could have guaranteed Bond 's safety . |
| 15 | At one point , in an announcement broadcast live in special television and radio reports , Miami police said they had the girlfriend , Patsy Jones , in custody . |
| 16 | Nobody in industry has actually got an absolute guarantee , I mean even the British Telecom schemes said they 'll pay , they 'll pay the rate of inflation if they feel they can afford . |
| 17 | RSPCA officials say they are disgusted by the grim find and have vowed to prosecute the dog 's owner . |
| 18 | The Rochdale parents said they were reliving their whole trauma along with the parents of Orkney . |
| 19 | In Sarajevo , UN officials said they hoped to begin medical evacuations from the besieged city soon . |
| 20 | The model behaves so much like the real thing that the Berkeley scientists believe they can predict what would happen to the building during an earthquake . |
| 21 | Then challenge from the North , why tough talking Yorkshire lawyers believe they can take the city 's cosy legal world by storm . |
| 22 | West Yorkshire police confirmed they would be investigating the case . |
| 23 | North Yorkshire police say they are still anxious to trace anybody who invested money with Finnegan 's companies . |
| 24 | A spokesman for South Norwood police said they would be sending a report to the FA . |
| 25 | An NOP poll in the Independent on Sunday showed the Tories 13 points behind Labour , while a Mori poll in The Sunday Times indicated they were trailing by 10 points . |
| 26 | BBC sources said they were united in their desire to see both men stay . |
| 27 | Both Gloucestershire and West Mercia police admit they 're short of money and manpower , but say they had no alternative . |
| 28 | West Mercia Police believe they now have one of the world 's most sophisticated centres for training armed officers . |
| 29 | Now West Mercia police say they 've interviewed 12 present and former members of staff . |
| 30 | A warning about the beans was published by trading standards in Birmingham last year … but Oxfam officials say they had no idea of the danger until this week |