Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] [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 | Two-thirds of their sample thought they could obtain their preferred type of job within 24 miles of home , but only 18 per cent were willing to travel this distance daily . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And one of their floors have they made into toyland ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some of its members say they 're going to get rid of them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Trapped in the revolving world of afternoon TV , this is a man who would have quite happily recorded the LP from the comfort of his bed had they been able to fit it in the studio . |
| 10 | Beaumont 's study of assisted migrants in Scotland in 1976 showed that 88 per cent of his sample said they would have wanted to move in the absence of government assistance and , even more important , 69 per cent of the sample said they would have been able to move without government assistance . |
| 11 | A study by Parker , however , using a national sample , reached conclusions which were slightly more supportive of labour mobility programmes : Only 13 per cent of his sample said they would not have moved without a grant but 56 per cent said they would have found it difficult to move without a grant . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , elite theorists are reluctant to ascribe interests to people on some kind of ‘ objective ’ basis , independently of what people say they want . |
| 13 | Another 36% liked it quite a lot , but almost as many men enjoyed it only a little , not very much or not at all ( 7% of our sample say they ca n't remember how they felt ) . |
| 14 | Well a lot of our people said they liked him did n't they ? |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |