Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they lacked was Mr Pozsgay 's eloquence , access to the media and the ability to relate these lofty ideas to the man and woman in the street . |
| 2 | It merits the longest entry devoted to any one person in Boswell 's account , and no more than two sentences in Johnson 's : the person they met was Flora Macdonald , who had helped Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape after Culloden . |
| 3 | ‘ They got a governmen' like they theenk this one real country excep' all they got is couple hun'red thousan' people . ’ |
| 4 | I 've had people come up and buy records and tapes and things and they 've gone back to their stall which is all they sell is records and tapes . |
| 5 | Every time they looked up last night all they experienced was rain , rain and more rain . |
| 6 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 7 | What they want is money — £140,000 — which would cover the annual cost of running the scheme . |
| 8 | Now if you 've got somebody who you are protecting their family , and they 'll be paying that plan twenty five years or more , the fact that they pay commissions out for the first four years is immaterial , what they want is peace of mind and protection . |
| 9 | All they want is survival and a fair deal . |
| 10 | What they want is certainty . |
| 11 | What they want is business , not as an exclusive right but as a first option . |
| 12 | They have many gifts and all they want is people to encourage them . |
| 13 | The man they want is Nottingham Forest 's dynamic Irishman Roy Keane . |
| 14 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 15 | There is also a formal element of crime detection , although in the normal course of events all they encounter is shoplifting and parking offences . |
| 16 | Just before we leave it , er to come back to the nature it 's quite interesting , what these people found was they studied adders in I think Denmark and what they found was adders adders copulate , but females can store semen for months . |
| 17 | " The soldiers went out and the first creature they found was Rabscuttle , grazing on the hill-top . |
| 18 | What they found were prisons . |
| 19 | Webster and Stewart had this in mind , even though the terms they used were evenness and fairness , when they pointed out that an ‘ uneven distribution … may be regarded as ‘ fair ’ if the variation is related to need . |
| 20 | A GROUP of Japanese customers were given the red carpet treatment when they visited 's Buckie maltings in March . |
| 21 | One of the restaurants they visited was Don Leone 's — a stone 's throw from the marina in Puerto Banus where the rich and famous moor their luxury yachts . |
| 22 | They travelled by ferry , and among the places that they visited were Paris , Lille and Bruges . |
| 23 | S but what they say is part of his managerial status demanded him having a company car to which I was given one as well but in effect that then became his wife 's because he was still banned for drink driving . |
| 24 | He , too , has the courage to speak out , and so has Ted Heath , whether what they say is right or wrong or agrees with the party line . |
| 25 | How much of what they say is fact and how much is opinion ? |
| 26 | The Palestinians , many of whom are desperate as a result of roots in the poverty of the refugee camps , hold few cards other than their determination not to be subdued and the ‘ armed struggle ’ through which this determination is sometimes expressed ; what they seek is recognition of some form of statehood on Palestinian soil . |
| 27 | She found that about two-thirds of the women whom she studied had relied upon female kin at some stage , and that most of the support which they received was child care , coming principally from mothers and mothers-in-law , but also sisters , sisters-in-law , aunts and grandmothers . |
| 28 | Both the Augustinians and Dominicans sought to combine the qualities of actives and contemplatives in their way of life and teaching ; they stressed the need for penance and man 's dependence on God 's grace for that illumination of understanding through faith and love that they believed was knowledge of God . |
| 29 | There have been several hospitalisations over the past few months , people who entered catatonic states after taking what they believed was E but turned out to be K. Now everybody is jumping on the Ketamine bandwagon . |
| 30 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |