Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all his working of the flesh and his golden suntan and his deployment of pop philosophies and credos , Letterman is too contrived an individual to be successful with the sort of Frenchwoman — my gaze descends from the mountain to my backyard where they are pegging out a goatskin — whom he desires to play the part of Claudia . |
| 2 | Audrey said : ‘ I talked to a lot of women jockeys to research my part and they told me men getting heavy with them is common in the racing world . ’ |
| 3 | They were really bad mistakes on my part and they cost us dear . |
| 4 | They were n't sure if this applied in my case but they were investigating the matter . |
| 5 | It was my experience that they took an extremely passive line , waiting to see if the situation would change and the spouse return . |
| 6 | I went in and paid my money and they said to Ann |
| 7 | I find it difficult in my notes that they 're all so mathematical , that you just read through lines and lines of equations and there 's very few sentences in between to explain what 's going on . |
| 8 | I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly . |
| 9 | I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand . |
| 10 | I prefer to gather mine on my fingers until they are full , and then transfer it onto the iron stake positioned at the end of the net and held in the crook of my left arm . |
| 11 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , see one of my blokes and they 'll tell you what you 'll need . |
| 13 | There is no doubt in my mind that they exist . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd pretty much made up my mind that they had to be forced into action , but it was such a difficult decision . |
| 15 | It is in my mind that they did not want to kill me , but Isay was left to face them alone . |
| 16 | I mean to my mind if they 're opening on a Sunday they should bring their prices down because they 're opening that extra day they 're going to be taking extra revenue . |
| 17 | Now as I was picking the ivy for this , I 've got a cherry a standard cherry tree and the starlings get on my fence and they queue up to get on that cherry tree , you know you can hear them chattering away . |
| 18 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 19 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 20 | I slapped my face and pinched my thighs till they hurt . |
| 21 | I pointed to my mouth and they understood I was hungry . ’ |
| 22 | Can I say that I hope Mr or or whoever writes for the County Council would n't use the form of words , but erm although I am instructed by my clients that they would be satisfied with the change to a single triangle , erm I do n't think that they would be satisfied if you in making that change , you accompanied by a form of words which said the County Council are still committed to building an outer . |
| 23 | Since I refused to acknowledge that I understood a word of Czech or German , I just shrugged my shoulders as they droned on . |
| 24 | If someone stupidly backs into my car because they were chatting away to their passenger , I have a right to be cross . |
| 25 | I felt tears come into my eyes as they had into Flora 's at dinner . |
| 26 | I refused to go in my cell and they put us down the block . |
| 27 | It 's my intention that they appear on my gravestone . |
| 28 | Shut my ears while they 're going on at me , run upstairs , lock my bedroom door . |
| 29 | And it 's my contention , it 's my contention that them people that were er strafing and bombing me , er outside , er in republican Spain , was the same was the same crowd was the same crowd that were bombing and strafing several years later , in the in in the second world war , in in in France er and Holland . |
| 30 | ‘ Why does everybody tell me I ought to watch my drinking when they 're all so busy watching it for me ? |