Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought the newt or the Knifefish might be eating the fish , but one of my books says they are community fish , and another says they are not . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , no record seems to have survived of the names of all those who signed the document : in an interview with the Despatch on 1 September , one of their leaders said they were mostly from printing offices which had not agreed to the men 's memorial , that is on the whole the smaller offices . |
| 3 | And one of their floors have they made into toyland ? |
| 4 | This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers . |
| 5 | Erm , that is kids may express curiosity , kids may even be doing things that imply they 're getting some sort of pleasure out of their bodies y'know they may be , as we used to call it when I was a child , playing with themselves , um they may be erm doing various things that er that give them some sort of bodily pleasure . |
| 6 | Some of its members say they 're going to get rid of them . |
| 7 | Moving from gardening to a musical metaphor , the poetic , sensuous qualities of her paintings suggest they could be experienced , like percussion instruments , through vibrations on the skin or in the bones . |
| 8 | ‘ Some of our fans said they were happy we did n't get a second goal because they feared more trouble , ’ said Bangor secretary Freddie Anderson . |
| 9 | Yet the large majority of our teenagers said they had not been taught the practical realities of avoiding AIDS until they were at least 15 . |
| 10 | She wanted to prod them and gaze into their eyes to check they were n't real . |
| 11 | Today Koons claims to be the ‘ most written about artist in the world ’ , with his assistants insisting they collect 50 to 100 magazine and newspaper clippings about their boss each week . |
| 12 | Pigs wandered here with bells slung round their necks to show they were the property of the Hospital of St Anthony and could n't be slaughtered Beadles armed with steel-pointed staffs dispersed fowl or curbed the yapping of fierce yellow-haired dogs , whilst bailiffs tried to move on a strange creature dressed like a magpie in black and white rags . |
| 13 | People ran from the blocks to the lavatories and back with pinched faces and sat in their rooms wishing they had saved a little coal . |
| 14 | In your days did they have the building then ? |
| 15 | They took assets on to their books assuming they would sell them at a profit shortly afterwards . |