Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd cos er sometimes my tea cloths they 've still got little stains on them . |
| 2 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 3 | I went to as many classes as I could , although as they worked college terms they did n't start until September and I arrived in July . |
| 4 | The expense allowances they received often failed , sometimes by a long way , to cover the costs they had to meet . |
| 5 | They are all single cells , yet within their cell walls they contain much more complex structures than any bacterium possesses . |
| 6 | arrested six of them all they found all bits and bobs off hundreds and hundreds and thousands of pounds worth of cars , and four wheel drives they specialise in and off to the continent with it . |
| 7 | These measures reminded some Jews of the concentration camps they had recently left . |
| 8 | But when they 're doing these welding jobs they have n't got them on those things so as they 're doing it like it 's all moving and |
| 9 | ( First Edition ) Two senior council officers were suspended on full pay pending an inquiry into a chain of consultancy companies they set up on public health , waste management , food hygiene and urban renewal . |
| 10 | Dinah learnt the lines , was laced into the vulgar striped dress the part required , which had stains under the arms from the young lady off sick , was heavily rouged and had her eyebrows blackened , and walked on to the boards to the flare of gaslight and the outline of gentlemen in bowler hats they had not troubled to remove , refreshing themselves at the bar which stood at the back of the theatre . |
| 11 | There really was a time when some thought that trade union leaders were more important than the Prime Minister and the Cabinet ; when families were stopped from buying the council homes they lived in ; when we were taxed more heavily on our incomes and savings than almost anyone else in the developed world ; when many of our most important industries were run at enormous loss by the State . |
| 12 | In these withdrawal classes they have frequently been offered an inappropriate , low-level curricular experience accompanied by low teacher expectation — just as many disruptive children have . |
| 13 | Yeah but they do some , those pub meals they reckon now are best value for money and the most |
| 14 | In the place of the marble fantasies they tore down , the British erected some of the most crushingly ugly buildings ever thrown up by the British Empire — a set of barracks that look as if they have been modelled on Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 15 | F. When firms in the UK and the EEC want to expand their businesses with extra new branch factories they consider carefully the special advantages which there are in Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
| 17 | As a result , the military have bases they do not require , weapon systems they do not need , to meet threats that do not exist . |
| 18 | When I consulted the Lancashire Association of Parish & Town Councils they had never heard of such a charge being made . |
| 19 | The case studies they produce later form part of the curriculum at Crotonville , the company 's management-development school a few miles up on the Hudson river from New York . |
| 20 | What was a night out without a sing-song ? ln broad Somerset accents they bellowed out the words , waving their flagons in unison . |
| 21 | Today , any share certificates they own only have worth as collectors ' items . |
| 22 | As frozen crystals come into contact as water droplets they fuse together forming even bigger crystals . |
| 23 | The first two have attempted comparative evaluations of the two or more orientation techniques they used concurrently . |
| 24 | But they can be slow to use , and many experienced users prefer the keyboard shortcuts they provide rather than the laborious use of mouse and pull-down menus . |
| 25 | As the following sections show , however , case load problems were not as great as predicted ; and although the development officers continued to feel some lack of back-up services they did not consider it a severe impediment to their implementation of the project . |
| 26 | Humans can act as moral , social agents because unlike all other present day beings they acquire both a ‘ life of the senses , or desires ’ ( kaekwae ) and a full ‘ life of thoughts ’ ( ta'kwaru ) to be used on earth . |
| 27 | Someone from British Coal rang a bemused Rob Gretton to find out what ‘ the political content of the record was ’ as , what with the goings-on with the imminent pit closures they claim not to want any more adverse publicity ! |
| 28 | The number of TV news programmes they watched regularly ( asked in the Pre-Campaign Wave ) . |
| 29 | Both products work on contact , and while they will kill adult aphids they do not harm their eggs . |
| 30 | It is the police who have to decide whether the unruly pickets or drug users they pick up are prosecuted ; and if the police took every offender to court the legal system would not be able to cope . |