Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] they [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General practitioners ' threshold for visiting is probably lower for patients on lists that they cover than for their own patients . |
| 2 | There they spend the summer in a state of suspended animation , sustained by the fat reserves that they accumulated when they were caterpillars . |
| 3 | Another dhāmi has joined him and they link arms for a while and then move closer together , stretching their arms across each other 's shoulders so they dance as one , their bodies tilting first forwards and then back as they bounce across the roof . |
| 4 | Then I think the erm the chairs , Malcolm phoned erm was it the homeless , was it Shelter , one of those organizations and they came and picked them up . |
| 5 | Similarly , people who at some time in the future will require foreign currency ( people such as importers , holiday makers , or those thinking of investing abroad or in foreign securities ) may prefer to wait before exchanging pounds into the relevant foreign currencies if they believe that the sterling price of these currencies is likely to fall ( the pound is likely to appreciate ) . |
| 6 | He 's on reserves and they say that we already have more than our quota per pupil than most other places . ’ |
| 7 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 8 | And er , I think that there are people who are a little wet behind the ears if they think that the general public are going to accept the costs of a budget that 's coming forward on a long these lines . |
| 9 | Goldberg and Lewis sampled very young babies between 6 and 13 months and they observed that mothers of female babies were more protective of them , keeping them close to their side , cuddling them a lot and that the babies liked to play quietly with soft toys and absorbing tasks . |
| 10 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 11 | Now that you see so it might be an idea If you have your table within the marquis , that does whatever you want it to do , that can talk to kids if they want and so forth , you see they they 're sort of juniors upwards . |
| 12 | I would suggest that we can deal with these parties if they arise but that we should not hold up the negotiations with the top four . |
| 13 | There seem to be our two groups er , in one of our provinces and they say that the rich and poor but the rich er er are not so rich and others . |
| 14 | I 've talked to some of my son 's teachers about bullying in schools and they say that these children whom no one has ever laid a finger on can not imagine the pain they inflict on others . |
| 15 | Tom stopped and put his finger to his lips and they stood and watched it hopping in and out among the changing leaves . |
| 16 | The tenants take liberties with the messengers because they know that the owner is far away . |
| 17 | In daylight they are only to be seen from ships at sea , when the two smaller petrels appear all dark birds with white rumps as they flutter and dance across the waves . |
| 18 | A significant minority of men aged 17–24 take risks when they drive because they feel confident in their ability behind the wheel . |
| 19 | Her ears are so stretched by ornaments that they flap as she leans towards me . |
| 20 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 21 | The Swann Committee had also noted ‘ the views expressed very clearly to us at our various meetings with parents from the whole range of ethnic minority groups that they want and indeed expect the education system to give their children above all a good command of English as rapidly as possible ’ . |
| 22 | All of these animals have particular areas where they rest and breed , and some even feed within well-defined boundaries , seldom leaving their territory . |
| 23 | However , institutions may put forward proposals for fully integrated courses in any subject areas where they believe that a case can be made . |
| 24 | men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values . |
| 25 | As a starting point for my research I decided to find out about the numbers of teachers who worked in secondary schools , the posts that they held and the distribution of men and women teachers to various posts , together with their qualifications and salaries . |
| 26 | No aid , however beneficial , is totally without disadvantages and children often need positive encouragement in practising their use before they become aware of the advantages that they offer when adroitly used . |
| 27 | This was made explicit in terms of the sense of British identity which protestant loyalists experience : ‘ This implies in particular , in respect of Northern protestants , that the civil and religious liberties that they uphold and enjoy will be fully protected and their sense of Britishness accommodated ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 22–3 ) . |
| 28 | Advantages include the fact that you are not responsible for their rents if they leave and that you have a clearly-defined personal space , however small . |
| 29 | The Committee 's report thus concluded that these practices were necessary in modern circumstances but they suggested that , because of haphazard evolution , the practices lacked coherence and the system should therefore be regularized and checked . |
| 30 | The polytechnics support vouchers because they believe that the system will give them parity of resources with the universities by allowing them to compete for students on equal terms . |