Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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1 | For some calls they wear plain clothes , but mostly work is done in uniform , as it must be if neighbourhood policing is to work . |
2 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
3 | But the few houses they passed seemed to have their doors locked and bolted and their windows shuttered . |
4 | After some minutes they went up to the room . |
5 | All groups are invited to send resolution which may or may not be actually debated but erm , we , we do n't normally send one in , but some , some groups they send them in , no , no one 's thinking |
6 | But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of |
7 | This indicates that acinar cells in pancreatitis retain their responsiveness to direct secretory stimulation but for some reasons they become ‘ resistant ’ to the stimulation in vivo . |
8 | Peck adds that ‘ Some times they prod him with Needles , sometimes they pepper him , sometimes they Shoot at him . ’ |
9 | Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label . |
10 | Some bombs they dropped on the RAF camp |
11 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
12 | Should we not also still go for the , if we can , the one and a half times they work Saturdays ? |
13 | In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports . |
14 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
15 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
16 | In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation . |
17 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
18 | Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards . |
19 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
20 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
21 | During the few minutes they chatted , apart from mentioning he was divorced , he did not bring up Liza 's name . |
22 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
23 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
24 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
25 | At first chicks peck at both food and pebbles about equally , but after a few minutes they learn the difference and thereafter pick up the food and avoid the pebbles ( especially if the latter are glued to the floor ! ) . |
26 | For a few minutes they both remained thus , motionless . |
27 | For a few minutes they would wander along the rails and then , suddenly , as though seized with panic , they would hasten back to the safety of the group they had left . |
28 | After a few minutes they were half opened and a middle-aged woman came and sat on the chair by his bed . |
29 | In a few minutes they were on a smaller road , with the lough in view . |
30 | For a few minutes they contemplated the grazing animals in silence . |