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 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |
| 3 | Mansfield breweries took them over now |
| 4 | EPA officials say they do n't know who prepared what 's come to be known as the EPA 's hit-list . |
| 5 | It 's an embarrassing thing for a fault-tolerant vendor to have to say , but a bug in Guardian for the Tandem Computers Inc NonStop CLX machines caused them to reset their clocks to December 1 , 1983 on November 1 , causing systems with time-dependent programs to go haywire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | How dare the Nottinghamshire police suppose they can throw their weight around in this way ? |
| 11 | Does he further appreciate that , throughout Ayrshire , people recognise that any additional assets that are poured into the South Ayrshire hospitals to make them work will be at the expense of the national health service in the rest of Ayrshire ? |
| 12 | The Khmers Rouges accused them of spying " in order to help the Vietnamese and Phnom Penh forces " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After five year 's research , the USGs geologists reckon they know what happened in California . |
| 16 | In such circumstances , Mr Cruickshank said it is ‘ crucial that up-to-the-minute information is readily available for NHS managers to enable them to make informed decisions on pay and staffing ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is not surprising that so many North Americans feel they were born to shop . |
| 19 | Chester police said they had received no report of the incident . |
| 20 | Burnley police insisted they could have guaranteed Bond 's safety . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The January polls gave them 7 per cent of the vote , guaranteeing federal seats . |
| 24 | RSPCA officials say they are disgusted by the grim find and have vowed to prosecute the dog 's owner . |
| 25 | He thereupon immediately wrote to Kingsway Motors informing them of the situation and claiming the return of his purchase price . |
| 26 | ‘ But at least , if they ca n't afford to come home , they will be able to tune into Coronation Street programmes to keep them entertained . ’ |
| 27 | There had been no point in looking for a towel at the squat , but I knew Seymour Place baths hired them out . |
| 28 | An Arab League meeting in Cairo on March 22 appeared to have produced an acceptable compromise proposal : al-Megrahi and Fhimah would be handed over first to the Arab League , which would then through UN channels deliver them to either the UK or the US judicial authorities ; the League then sent a delegation to Tripoli to negotiate the terms of the handover . |
| 29 | Although the ITV companies sold them and collected the revenue , their frequency , duration and content were regulated by the supervising body , the Independent Television Authority . |
| 30 | The Rochdale parents said they were reliving their whole trauma along with the parents of Orkney . |