Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the continents grew they gleaned more of the carbon from the oceans and atmosphere . |
| 2 | ‘ Before , in the Kirov , what happened was that there were eight or ten singers working for one new production each year , and another 50 sitting in the rehearsals criticizing them . |
| 3 | Steve and his wife use it to keep the weight off and ensure their 3 young daughters get the balanced diet the experts say they need . |
| 4 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 5 | Oxford are sticking to their old blades and the experts reckon they 'll be sharp enough to win on Saturday . |
| 6 | It was always farming circulars for her father , copies of the newspaper to which he occasionally contributed articles on sheep , seldom anything for her mother beyond invitations the senders knew they were safe from her accepting , or appeals for money from charities , the Scottish Women 's Institute , funds to save a painting for the Glasgow Art Gallery . |
| 7 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 8 | Then we 've got the rig , the mast comes in two parts , the boom , the sail and all the ropes to put them together . |
| 9 | When both trunks had been hauled on to the far bank they used the ropes to bind them together at various points along their length . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I was prepared to set aside time at a future meeting for full discussion , but the clubs felt they did n't want to even talk about the issue any further . |
| 11 | The clubs helped them recruit supporters . ’ |
| 12 | Professor Sir John Cadogan , chairman of the research council which advised the council on the allocations , said : ‘ We went straight to the heads of the institutions to ask them what were their best bets for boosting the numbers of their top-notch research ratings . |
| 13 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 14 | The institutions say they intend to raise the equity weighting in their portfolios from under 10% to perhaps 15% by the mid-1990s . |
| 15 | McShane , one of the driving forces behind the Hunger Marches of the 1930s , and Milligan , a founder member of the British Communist Party , hid in a pub and downed a few pints until a party of workers arrived from the Gorbals to rescue them . |
| 16 | It probably was n't practical to rig up a short tape belay and , in any case , the climbers felt they were down , with the climbing virtually finished . |
| 17 | Instead he designed lamps on the spot and took them straight down into the mines to test them on the jets of methane . |
| 18 | When the price of graphite fell in 1900 and the mines closed they returned to their villages ; one result was an increase in the number of cases of cattle stealing in the Western and Southern Provinces of fifty-six per cent over 1899 . |
| 19 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
| 20 | A common lawyer , as in the 1520s , might seem a better choice than either a noble or a cleric in an office so concerned with the law , but in the early fourteenth century common lawyers were regarded with some suspicion by the king-witness the attempts to get them barred from parliament — and by people whose complaints about the corruption of lay judges were frequent until late in the century . |
| 21 | ‘ Some of them were , as a matter of fact , but at the time they did n't have the signs to tell them so . ’ |
| 22 | The surveyors said they really did see , hear and feel all the exhilarating sensations of flying . |
| 23 | They were soon relegated to the emigrants ' cars , and when even the emigrants complained they were forced to travel on baggage wagons or on the boarding steps . |
| 24 | ‘ With my pencil and memorandum book in my hand , I was making studies , as the artists call them , and often moulding my thoughts into verse , with the objects and imagery immediately before my senses . ’ |
| 25 | The Collector had the remaining wooden shutters stripped off the Residency windows and dug into the mud of the ramparts to prevent them melting . |
| 26 | As I write , Washington is taking a second look at a once-derided theory , which maintains that the Reagan-Bush campaign made a private deal with Iran in 1980 ; the Iranians keeping the American hostages until after the election and the Reaganites rewarding them with heavy weapons as the price of Jimmy Carter 's pelt . |
| 27 | Only Greenidge and Lloyd kept them afloat as Snow and Underwood bowled really well and the fielders backed them up . |
| 28 | The defenders said they had no weapons to counter artillery . |
| 29 | But although the deputies said they clinched an agreement on the charter on Thursday morning it began to collapse when Lebanese leaders , including the Christian army commander , Michel Aoun , and the Druze leader , Walid Jumblatt , criticised it . |
| 30 | But the deputies believe they 've been singled out as a obstacle to producing cheaper coal in Britain 's pits , in the run up to privatization . |