Example sentences of "[noun] they " in BNC.

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1 And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know .
2 But two new devices now available mean they will soon be able to put some distance between them and the chemical .
3 But even in their religion they could not keep together …
4 It was an order totally alien to the most basic principles of the religion they were fighting to uphold , and showed that after 40 years of the struggle , some of those fighting under the flag of the Covenant had lost sight of the most important aspects of their Faith .
5 But er communism and politics are like religion they do n't necessarily deliver the goods .
6 However , in his time in Egypt , and before that in India , he had met many men of real devotion who yet had done the most terrible things , often in the name of the religion they served .
7 They are able to run quickly and confidently across that 6-foot ( 1.8-metre ) ride and because of their speed they become entangled .
8 Is the speed that people sip/guzzle beer or other intoxicating liquor and therefore the speed they get pissed directly proportional to their desire/need to press on in their resolving of life 's problems ? — which could mean a nice early death !
9 and you can tell by the speed they 're travelling what sp speed the wind is .
10 I can not say at what speed they moved , or how many times she circled the base of the tower , running as if her life depended on it .
11 With their eyes erect and fear in their speed they run for the safety of the waves .
12 Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top .
13 Your speed they would say was in excess of 600 miles per hour , 611 to be precise !
14 Christ , if they took speed they could be high six hours .
15 Er the speed they come out of that bend is unbelievable and I speak from experience Madam Chairman because my daughter lives on that very corner where the bend is and er
16 Well I , excuse me , I would ask you to come on that corner at five O'clock at night , and at half past eight , between half past eight and nine in the morning , and see what speed they all come round , alright ?
17 It is what they want to learn and at the speed they want to learn it .
18 Can you imagine what speed they were going at ?
19 Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think .
20 It is alarming to hear how many relatively inexperienced pilots seem completely unaware of the risks they take when pitting their skills against the forces of nature .
21 People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly .
22 This came somewhat late to the RUC because of the added security risks its members run by admitting outsiders , and because police authorities in divided societies like Northern Ireland have to be more sensitive about public perceptions of the police and therefore more conscious of the risks they run through research .
23 But they were encouraged to take other risks because their basic business ( lending for house purchase ) was getting unprofitable , because supervision by federal examiners was weak and because federal deposit insurance in effect underwrote any risks they cared to take .
24 They prove time and time again the risks they are prepared to take .
25 They had volunteered and were prepared to masquerade in German uniform , knowing full well the risks they ran if caught .
26 Trade unions began , if slowly and unadventurously , to assert that they did n't give a hoot : their members were not going to run risks they did n't like .
27 The theory of risk compensation , which has been around for years , says that drivers adjust the amount of risks they take to keep their perceived level of risk constant .
28 To safeguard their health in the meantime you could give them advice about how to reduce the risks they are taking .
29 But if we are to be able to talk to our children about this at all , then we must have some understanding of the choices and risks they face .
30 Around two in 10 policy holders with big insurers are smokers and they 're made to cough up bigger premiums to match the health risks they run .
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