Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] they [art] " in BNC.

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1 about analysis or me giving them the dream and I have to sort of like get out for myself what
2 Matt put in , ‘ Departing guests pay their accounts at the office , where she gives them a receipt , and Ling takes his list of commodities to her — things to be ordered for the kitchen , you understand . ’
3 the only attraction of that is would be if you could both be able to tell me that if I erm , wrote them a letter , or you wrote them a letter on my behalf erm and they say of yes they are going to deal with this erm next Friday or something
4 Or he gave them the impression that he wrestled , with limbs contorted , in the effort to seize hold of what truth could be found .
5 While farmers themselves recognise that no-one owes them a living , there 's still an inherent desire to be on the receiving end of some support .
6 While farmers themselves recognise that no-one owes them a living , there 's still an inherent desire to be on the receiving end of some support .
7 Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch .
8 Well I mean it 's gone much beyond that I mean they the reality of the situation is er is not like that I 'm afraid I mean it Eighteen men have been sacked and and these are men that have put those quarries where they are .
9 After he left it occurred to me that Harrington and Lewis might also find my effort useful , so I took them a copy .
10 There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth .
11 I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money .
12 I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow .
13 ‘ And another thing we 've got to talk about — it 's not really fair that you have them every weekend .
14 Now you could say that was perhaps maintenance , but it 's all been cleaned , it 's been repointed , there are new lanterns , they 've done all the paintwork and they made such a beautiful job of it , it 's really almost for the craftsmanship and the care that we gave them a certificate for that as well .
15 They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department .
16 After being swamped by people demanding that we give them the freebie SEAL course , we have , after long and difficult nights of deliberation , come to a decision .
17 We face real threats internationally from pollution , over-population , from famine , from nuclear accidents and from the collapse of an unjust world economic order which means we take more money from the poor than we lend them every year . ’
18 Room maids also suggested improving the honeymoon suite , so we gave them a project to look at suitable fabrics and rival hotel suites .
19 We 're on the same pitch then , so we give them a game and that would apply in the Premier League . ’
20 The trouble about that is , it 's now enforced upon us and that 's official target , we have to set priority of fire certificates because we need the money , bluntly , otherwise we have to find it elsewhere , so we give them a priority that they would n't otherwise have .
21 My mum and dad deny that they make them a brew , but when I get home there 's usually 20 dirty cups outside the door . ’
22 That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler .
23 She says that they gave them every assistance possible .
24 and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent .
25 Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes .
26 First impressions are that he offered them a recipe of component parts from many different guitars and the result is a sort of nouvelle cuisine which leaves this weary plucker scratching his head .
27 Some , however , did receive Him and believed in Him ; so he gave them the right to become God 's children .
28 And I sold them the best .
29 They usually need to be cooked and I use them a great deal with beans and in Mexican dishes , slicing them before cooking .
30 And Iain — and Alastair , of course , and your father , if he will come so far. , ‘ I will come so far , ’ Sandy McGlashan proclaimed from six rungs up the ladder , ‘ and I willing them a song of William Ross 's to send them on their away .
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