Example sentences of "they [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large numbers of people have gained the advantages of acquiring different forms of capital , be they houses or shares . |
| 2 | Are they owls ? |
| 3 | When made with the addition of stock they Jose all character and cease to be what they were intended to be . |
| 4 | And did n't say you know , It 's flipping these tour buses in York that cos all the other people trouble because you ca n't get anywhere they clog the roads up . |
| 5 | They 've gone up again have n't they Jan ? |
| 6 | right , I 'll fold them then God they look revolting these things do n't they Jan ? |
| 7 | They no longer dress like men as they did in the Mughal court ; instead they deck themselves in jewellery and cosmetics and wear saris . |
| 8 | If British Telecom 's catchpenny peripheral services — dial-a-sex-kitten and so on are any yard stick , we may expect special issue stamps to become even more gimmicky and tacky than they ire already , come privatisation . |
| 9 | It was as if they were really desperate and they knickers round their ankles running into the toilet ! |
| 10 | This can happen only when they acquirer obtains comprehensible input . |
| 11 | And they Hopa yet , for Germany . |
| 12 | Peggy had her arms around the elderly woman now , and they dung together tightly , and there was a break in Peggy 's voice as she said , ‘ Why did n't you talk about this before ? |
| 13 | but erm they difficulty is in erm let's say keeping within a couple of hours . |
| 14 | Rowntree 's moving account of rural poverty complemented Bowley 's careful statistics , as did several similar painstaking , unsensational accounts of poverty in this period , all remarkably alike in the details of hardship they recounted. from 1909 to 1913 the Fabian Women 's Group recorded the daily budgets of thirty families in Lambeth , published as Round About a Pound a Week , written by Maud Pember Reeves 's in 1907 At the Works by Lady Florence Bell surveyed the lives and living standards of the people of Middlesbrough . |
| 15 | and then they computer people , and it , both the firms have gone bust , and each one was suing from the other for , er , insurance |
| 16 | Er I 'm forgive me if this information is already available to the Committee but er are each of your schemes are they money purchase schemes or final salary schemes ? |
| 17 | Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law . |
| 18 | Because that 's what they money they 'd owed you ? |
| 19 | Round about twelve or thirteen , I suppose they kind of |
| 20 | Could use you sometimes you say they kind of , |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , are n't they kind ? |
| 22 | They , they kind of suspend their immediate problems as they wait to , to move out . |
| 23 | They kind of things you mean ? |
| 24 | You know that when birds are chicks in nest , they gape , their little mouths open wide , like this , and they , whenever the parents come back to the nest , wi with a worm or something , you see the little chicks , their little mouths wide open , they kind of reach out of the nest and , and , and try to their feeding . |
| 25 | They wanted to emulate him , and do what he was doing , and enjoy his privileges , and they kind of admired him for what he was having and they wanted . |
| 26 | Oh , of course the opposite happens in a group , I mean what happens in groups you know therapeutic groups tend to be like this one , they sit in circles and they , they kind of focus on very often on the leader who often plays a very , very powerful role even if they claim not to . |
| 27 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 28 | They had nothing to drink , nothing to eat , they kind of hibernated and apparently they lapsed into a state of , of a kind of hibernation and inactivity , but they were still alive and they were alive when they , when they were pulled out fourteen days later . |
| 29 | Erm so I 'm not quite sure how representative I am but er I think they do this every forty years or something and then they kind of analyse the sort of speech content , that sort of stuff . |
| 30 | Are her and Bren still in the , more or less the same boat , they kind of just , mustering through as it were ? |