Example sentences of "they [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , where it cut the highway , the steep bank of the river would give them protection from the full force of the hurricane . |
| 2 | But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy . |
| 3 | It also gives them protection as they venture across the open plains of sand , where there are no hiding places . |
| 4 | Thus it could be alleged that we are all vulnerable to this power , individuals having little control over their lives , in the shadow of a powerful and looming state which offers them protection and a set of civil/political rights , the main being to elect representatives in return for their acquiescence . |
| 5 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 6 | I 'm not very good at them Mum gave me that one it 's been in quite good condition but |
| 7 | yeah we 'll have one of them mum |
| 8 | eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says |
| 9 | More rigorously geometric than her previous and distinctively organic work , the new sculptures appear to mark a change of direction and approach the work of Bruce Nauman or Robert Morris , but their content is consistent and in them Houshiary continues to explore the journey from the body or self to its spirit , as she works towards a major exhibition at Grenoble 's Magasin in 1993 or 1994 . |
| 10 | Although usually quite reasonable priced , the cost of using them tots up to a considerable amount over several days . |
| 11 | I really got into rockabilly through liking The Stones , and through them Chuck Berry , also The Beatles . |
| 12 | ‘ Them bruises is it ? ’ |
| 13 | By not confronting its opponents ' lies when and wherever uttered , it gave them credence . |
| 14 | Although not implausible , these suggestions were not substantiated by any solid evidence , and we had therefore been reluctant to accord them credence . |
| 15 | The Tories have identified 73 constituencies , 11 of them marginals , where where 100 or more overseas residents have registered to cast proxy votes on April 9 . |
| 16 | All of these guidelines , many of them well-intentioned and prepared with care , have been aimed at making primary schools fulfil a predetermined function — to prepare young children for the secondary stage and to give them enthusiasm for learning . |
| 17 | ‘ And them Druids were disgusting with their tatty beards and dirty finger-nails — ‘ |
| 18 | Allen pulled one back for West Ham to give them hope of at least a point . |
| 19 | This government is doing nothing to give them hope and their pride back . |
| 20 | Seven hundred boys , almost a third of them sons of the clergy , lived their ‘ ultra-Spartan ’ lives in an institution which combined frequently brutal discipline with a consistently meagre diet . |
| 21 | , John James ( 1811–1883 ) , physicist and physical chemist , was born in 1811 in Edinburgh , the sixth of nine children , at least five of them sons , of George Waterston , a manufacturer of sealing-wax and stationery requisites , of Edinburgh , and his wife Jane Blair of Dunkeld . |
| 22 | , Richard Austin ( 1862–1943 ) , detective-story writer , was born 11 April 1862 at 27 Thayer Street , in Marylebone , London , the youngest of five children ( four of them sons ) of Richard Freeman , a journeyman tailor who rose to become the manager of a bespoke tailoring business , and his wife Ann Maria Dunn . |
| 23 | Di did you show them Popsey ? |
| 24 | He called them seductions , interestingly enough , rather than child sex abuse , as we would perhaps now call it . |
| 25 | Training courses were arranged and at one of them General Aung San himself presided and listened to my opening speech to the PROS . |
| 26 | A likely story , retorted many letter writers , some of them whisky fanciers . |
| 27 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 28 | Intellectual stimulation was not easy , but the care manager came up with a group of volunteers , all of them computer buffs , who were able to communicate with the man on his level . |
| 29 | It was a tune to give them heart and remind them that they were not alone in their suffering . |
| 30 | ARSENAL boss George Graham last night blasted his multi-million pound stars for squandering the qualities which made them giants of English football . |