Example sentences of "[det] [conj] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Don Sargent 's diagrams of Great Zawn in particular , are excellent and should help demystify areas like this so they achieve the popularity they deserve . |
| 2 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 3 | You need a television , yeah , but you need a special special dish erm in Eurostep 's own publicity — I looked at this and they say the programme is available with , you know , sort of cheap and readily available sort of satellite dishes . |
| 4 | Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't do things like this unless they have the full knowledge and approval of the Royal Family . ’ |
| 6 | He followed her down one quiet suburban street after another till they approached the busy main road . |
| 7 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 8 | There was an added pleasure to this as they used the cable that connected the spy camera on the wall , so , for a few hours at least , we had some privacy . |
| 9 | The Wright bothers did this when they developed the first operational airplane . |
| 10 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 11 | This is traditional children 's Christmas holiday fare and those of you with sprogs still naive enough to appreciate it could do worse than plonk them in front of this when they start the equally traditional post-present grizzling . |
| 12 | On the golf-course behind him a foursome of players shouted to one another as they approached the fourteenth green . |
| 13 | It was too late to go home after that so they stayed the night . |
| 14 | This is that within a structure X Y based on assignment , the surface realization of instances of qualification within X ( however many there may be ) will tend to be such that subordinate items will precede , and within Y such that they follow the item qualified , provided in each case that no further instance of assignment supervenes . |
| 15 | But we have been brought up to respect these intellectual tools so much that they supplant the innocent insight of a child . |
| 16 | As discussed in Chapter I government statistics obscure almost as much as they reveal the extent of poverty among women . |
| 17 | But , the designers also learned much as they discovered the snags in their suggestions and the way they made them . |
| 18 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 19 | Whether I am talking to the residents of Moss Side in Manchester , or Scotswood in Newcastle , I am left in no doubt that they dislike their local councillors and councils as much as they dislike the Government . |
| 20 | They have acquired the ability to read much as they acquired the ability to speak , effortlessly , ‘ informally ’ , and often unnoticed . |
| 21 | Until the United States sanctions on Nicaragua and its backing for the Contra war come to an end , these limitations on living standards will continue to affect prisoners as much as they affect the rest of the population . |
| 22 | The key to this task is to recognise that buyers purchase benefits and are only interested in product features in as much as they provide the benefits that the customer is looking for . |
| 23 | Er in as much as they maintained the , the labour force . |
| 24 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 25 | The Calvinists detested the Lutherans almost as much as they did the Catholics but , as Wedgewood has observed : ‘ The fundamental issue was between revealed and rationalised belief . ’ |
| 26 | I think this motion is addressing the problem of Cambridge city and that the people that we feel we should be erm affiliating in so much as they need the housing . |
| 27 | Governments only try to do too much when they trust the people too little . |
| 28 | Two for that cos they got the film as well |
| 29 | Yes they they amalgamated then this parties and that and they had the you see . |
| 30 | Most airlines of any consequence have their own flight safety sections or air safety officials or officers ; indeed , in many States the regulating authorities require these before they permit the operator to operate public transport services . |