Example sentences of "they in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Philadelphia — now remember this name — when the Philadelphia put into Stornoway in Lewis , and gleaned young boys from the beach , and stowed them in the hold like trade-goods , what constable or what factor raised his arm or his stick to stop the slavers ? |
| 2 | She started flicking through the messages , most of them in the handwriting of Mrs Whittaker , the secretary of the English department . |
| 3 | Many of the herbs Chris uses for treating his fish would be accessible to them in the wild . |
| 4 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 5 | I think I ought to go and put them in the dryer a bit longer . |
| 6 | Reaching out , he took two of the scented sticks from the porcelain jar in front of him and held them in the thread of laser light until they lit . |
| 7 | The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors , but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level . |
| 8 | I found artefacts dating back a century and felt that it was important not just to preserve them , but to use them in the education of today 's children . ’ |
| 9 | Come on , let's get them in the container . ’ |
| 10 | Recently many artificial fibres , such as nylon , made in chemical factories , have replaced cotton or wool , or they are mixed with them in the spinning or weaving process . |
| 11 | ‘ We shall fight them in the lane . |
| 12 | The next thing to remember is that fish are live animals and you are not allowed to take them in the cabin of the aircraft . |
| 13 | In the mornings we would see them in the souk holding hands with strange men . |
| 14 | do n't want you to take them outside because you trail them in the wet . |
| 15 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 16 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 17 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
| 18 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 19 | They were heavy : I 'd have to wedge them in the middle so they did n't drag me down sideways . |
| 20 | A man had brought in the suitcases and stood them in the middle of the floor . |
| 21 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 22 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 23 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |
| 24 | Jacob pointed to an elaborate fountain a hundred yards ahead of them in the middle of the road , the distance making the play of water seem frozen in midjet . |
| 25 | Why do n't we locate them in the middle of , of fields ? why do they have them at all ? |
| 26 | We could have just collected all the cards up , put them in the middle of the car park and all just stood over them . |
| 27 | You hold them in the middle like that so you , it 's strong . |
| 28 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 29 | And we just put them in the middle of the room and |
| 30 | During his time in Belfast , Mr Brooke , and also the Irish government , have repeatedly told Sinn Fein that there can be no place for them in the peace process unless there is an abandonment of the campaign of violence . |