Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | In that case , one would expect the players to have little trouble in arriving at the result they both desire — mutual disarmament . |
| 3 | So the three things that really got me yesterday was the Aldershot method the structured thoughts and the coaching they all went together very well and Rob let's see what he thinks |
| 4 | I know what weight they all got , and what they all carry . |
| 5 | The aircraft was so silent , the atmosphere so eerie that as the medical team jumped from the ambulance they all began to fear the worst for the passengers inside — that they might not have survived the shock and impact of the crash landing . |
| 6 | There was an eager murmur , for something in his voice promised the action they all longed for . |
| 7 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 8 | Regan declares it to the man himself ( V.i.6ff. ) , as the egoism they each pursue turns the two sisters into deadly rivals ( 15f. , 18f . ) . |
| 9 | Now whether it means that in the short term they all land on your desk , and you give them just a superficial examination I do n't know . |
| 10 | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school , followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term . |
| 11 | Music is the most obviously aesthetic of the arts — to whose condition they all aspire , according to Walter Pater — yet it submits easily to formal and technical analysis . |
| 12 | In unison they all cried : ‘ Aaaaaw . |
| 13 | The human population , and the livestock , of a dozen townships was moving , like an organised but somewhat undisciplined army , from the cultivated area of the crofts to the summer grazings , or shielings , on the hill , where each township , and indeed each family , had its own special area , recognised and protected by custom , although in law they all had equal rights in the whole common , and had a joint committee to regulate its use . |
| 14 | No wonder they all hated him . |
| 15 | I thought cor blimey it 's a wonder he can walk look at that you would n't believe that today would you nineteen ninety two oh no wonder they all come over here , is so really , ca n't blame them if that 's the sort of quality of life they 've got |
| 16 | After lunch they all trooped back down to the beach with plastic bags and jars for specimens , and Carolyn lagged behind . |
| 17 | Yes yo your hands used to be purple an and the brass work on the dredger cos we had , we had a little bit of brass work they all used to turn green and to clean it , used to turn green . |
| 18 | To my great delight they all did comfortably worse than Arosa . |
| 19 | More senior men had perhaps less freedom to diversify , although in the south they all kept gardens and sometimes worked them themselves . |
| 20 | Perhaps he had had the same thought , because as their eyes met something seemed to pass between them , some spark of longing they both recognised . |
| 21 | After the rehearsal they all , Miranda too , went to the Adelphi tea-rooms , where they laughed at the décor : " Straight from the thirties , darling . |
| 22 | When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run . |
| 23 | Although Harry 's conscience kept him awake that night until the early hours , the temptation of a day alone with Madeleine dulled his feeling of guilt about borrowing Dunbar 's car to further his own pursuit of the girl they both loved . |
| 24 | They were about to become locked in a bitter legal battle for the future of the child they both loved . |
| 25 | they made this big discovery they all went back to their hotel rooms . |
| 26 | Chief 'em he 's gon na chaff 'em all . |
| 27 | For a moment they all froze , staring at it . |
| 28 | I would begin my much-loved cleaning the moment they all left for the pub , and in pursuit of domestic perfection removed the cushions from the couch to find the little brown eye-dropper-bottle . |
| 29 | He knew he was n't going to regret the move from the moment they all assembled for the first rehearsal . |
| 30 | It was another one of the tower rooms , with a semi-circle of windows giving on to the mountains , and for a moment they all halted on the threshold , too stunned to move by the sight of the magnificent blaze of the setting sun throwing the snow-covered peaks into relief . |