Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost half the respondents said they experienced feelings of disapproval , sadness or disgust ; only 26 per cent had felt anger or resentment towards the white authorities or pleasure that rioting was taking place . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Bancroft et al. ( 1977 ) found that more than half the attempters felt they had needed some form of help before the act , and that the most common type of help wanted was someone to talk to . |
| 3 | If hysterectomy does change bowel function it seems likely from our data that the primary problem is in the act of defecation rather than in colonic function , as there was little or no change in stool form yet half the subjects felt they were prone to constipation and a quarter strained with every recorded defecation . |
| 4 | It is interesting that half the carers said they would like to see the dementia sufferer in residential care . |
| 5 | At first interview half the carers said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care , and it was overwhelmingly from among these who wanted the sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home for the year were to be found . |
| 6 | During a five-day smog in the Ruhr area of West Germany in January 1985 the authorities believed they had achieved overall emission reductions of about 30 per cent , including 14 per cent of sulphur dioxide from power stations and 40–50 per cent of oxides of nitrogen from traffic ( Lubkert , 1989 ) . |
| 7 | Shocked workers at John Lewis were convinced the bombers intended them to be hit by the full force of the second blast . |
| 8 | And 75 per cent of all the girls admit they just ca n't help gossipping about sex to their friends . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not fantastic at English so all the students know they have to speak French in my classes . |
| 10 | All the commentators said they had no chance , except Bob Hawke the Prime Minister , who of course lived in Canberra and had to say that , and me , former tipster for The Sydney Morning Herald and occasional commentator and writer on the game . |
| 11 | All the others said they would definitely recommend it to : committee , collectors , volunteers , interested people , demotivated people etc. , etc . |
| 12 | All the women say they ca n't wait to get rid of me ! |
| 13 | All the women say they ca n't wait to get rid of me ! |
| 14 | Both sides were now preparing for war , but Norfolk and Rent made another attempt at mediation in mid-December when they wrote to all the prelates asking them to attend an assembly in London to discuss the king 's failure to abide by his coronation oath and Magna Carta . |
| 15 | All the sorters make them , of course , but in John St. Clair we have someone with a real and learned ‘ nose ’ . |
| 16 | Then we 've got the rig , the mast comes in two parts , the boom , the sail and all the ropes to put them together . |
| 17 | All the boys said they were also aware of the danger of getting a girl pregnant . |
| 18 | The enabling statute always , explicitly or implicitly , states , if X 1 , X 2 , X 3 exist you may or shall do Y. Yet , if X 1 , X 2 , and X 3 , and all the elements constituting them , were always held to be jurisdictional in a legal sense , the dividing line between review and appeal would be emasculated : the tribunal would have power to give only the right answer , this meaning the answer which accords with the view of the reviewing court . |
| 19 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 20 | The Fabians have now written to all the contenders assuring them that the decision was made on a purely commercial basis . |
| 21 | and she said how many the hankies do they use |
| 22 | Well I 've got that written down as the beginning of what goes in but e , I do n't actually do those the departments do them . |
| 23 | At first the companions think they have stumbled across a dead ship ; the crew lies slumped over the flight deck controls , their heartbeats non-existent . |
| 24 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |