Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is n't that where they found his clothes ? |
| 2 | Chukar-type partridges Alectoris are longer , more upright and slightly more pheasant-like than smaller Perdix , and readily distinguished where they overlap it in W and S Europe by black and white eyestripes , white chin and throat , broad black band extending from eye down neck to form breast-band , conspicuous black and white barring on flanks , and red bill and legs . |
| 3 | It was probably not long after this that they made their peace with the Yorkists and entered Gloucester 's service . |
| 4 | It was probably not long after this that they made their peace with the Yorkists and entered Gloucester 's service . |
| 5 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 6 | Add to all this that they endow themselves with rightness and send their mutual corroboration cascading through all levels of our information systems . |
| 7 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 8 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 9 | Other leading figures of the party made it clear that they share his sentiments . |
| 10 | But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment . |
| 11 | They could feel angry , embarrassed and even guilty because of the comments of over-anxious parents who keep hinting about their longing for grandchildren , or make it clear that they think there should be no more . |
| 12 | But in fact they were so ill prepared that they lost their naval base of Minorca and seemed unable to organize any effective counter-measures . |
| 13 | Some are so high that they enable their makers to detect the presence of a wire no thicker than a human hair stretched across their flyway . |
| 14 | The colonel explained that the reason for the exclusion zone would become clear once they saw what had been found in the excavation . |
| 15 | They did n't know what to say to this so they said nothing and he stood there , grinning and rubbing his hands together . |
| 16 | His argument begins with a rejection of ‘ universalism ’ and a claim that different varieties of language can be associated with different levels of such general qualities as ‘ objectivity ’ : ‘ there are gross differences among languages , such that it does seem reasonable to say of some that they allow their users to approximate to neutral , objective description ’ . |
| 17 | How persuasive the propaganda was is clear from the Latin war poems which even monks were then composing : some of these items were so popular that they found their way into school books for reading and glossing . |
| 18 | it 's quite interesting that they do it |
| 19 | Those remaining faced disease and starvation and the prospect of continuing civil war because the Russians left Afghanistan more unstable than they found it . |
| 20 | How people use this and they put it in the dictionary . |
| 21 | Each new resident and member of staff is given this and they find it very helpful . |
| 22 | They hear sort of rhyming slang and things like this and they think my god what 's he on about . |
| 23 | Good grief it must cost them a fortune to erm you know , pay for all these then , so they give you the Walkman to , while you 're doing this and they give you the batteries , tt |
| 24 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 25 | I I there is no evidence that it 's an inherited or venereal problem and this is the , you know you we have there has been lots of sort of studies done to see which woman might be more at risk and which women , you know , might have symptoms and th , the fact is that the reason why you , why the menopause occurs is because the ovaries stop functioning , they stop producing oestrogen and every woman 's ovaries does this and they do it you know , at all varying ages the average age is fifty . |
| 26 | Some of the characters that people produce from this and they did them like Parkinson did , a Rolling Stone ball J , but outlined in drop shadow . |
| 27 | But the UK had never had a product like this and they needed it , ’ says John Bartic , visiting professor at Strathclyde University and joint chief executive of Bartle Bogle Hegarty ( BBH ) , the agency appointed to handle the launch and subsequent roll-out . |
| 28 | They are patronising and they insult us by not understanding — and ignoring — the real requirements of our time . |
| 29 | This total would be cut by half if they transferred their educational budgets to central government . |
| 30 | Wagstaff argues that the hypnotist , like a counsellor , helps motivate people to try to remember by reassuring them that they will not be made to feel upset , guilty , or embarrassed if they describe what they have seen . |