Example sentences of "they [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if they were really desperate and they knickers round their ankles running into the toilet ! |
| 2 | Rowntree 's moving account of rural poverty complemented Bowley 's careful statistics , as did several similar painstaking , unsensational accounts of poverty in this period , all remarkably alike in the details of hardship they recounted. from 1909 to 1913 the Fabian Women 's Group recorded the daily budgets of thirty families in Lambeth , published as Round About a Pound a Week , written by Maud Pember Reeves 's in 1907 At the Works by Lady Florence Bell surveyed the lives and living standards of the people of Middlesbrough . |
| 3 | Round about twelve or thirteen , I suppose they kind of |
| 4 | Could use you sometimes you say they kind of , |
| 5 | They , they kind of suspend their immediate problems as they wait to , to move out . |
| 6 | They kind of things you mean ? |
| 7 | You know that when birds are chicks in nest , they gape , their little mouths open wide , like this , and they , whenever the parents come back to the nest , wi with a worm or something , you see the little chicks , their little mouths wide open , they kind of reach out of the nest and , and , and try to their feeding . |
| 8 | They wanted to emulate him , and do what he was doing , and enjoy his privileges , and they kind of admired him for what he was having and they wanted . |
| 9 | Oh , of course the opposite happens in a group , I mean what happens in groups you know therapeutic groups tend to be like this one , they sit in circles and they , they kind of focus on very often on the leader who often plays a very , very powerful role even if they claim not to . |
| 10 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 11 | They had nothing to drink , nothing to eat , they kind of hibernated and apparently they lapsed into a state of , of a kind of hibernation and inactivity , but they were still alive and they were alive when they , when they were pulled out fourteen days later . |
| 12 | Erm so I 'm not quite sure how representative I am but er I think they do this every forty years or something and then they kind of analyse the sort of speech content , that sort of stuff . |
| 13 | Are her and Bren still in the , more or less the same boat , they kind of just , mustering through as it were ? |
| 14 | I think it 's partly the subtlety of it , because on the surface , er the Teenage Mutant Turtles are er sort of in the classic goodies v baddies mould , and er they 're rather charming in fact , they 're almost naive , they kind of stroll along enjoying their pizzas , and if you look at the front of a lot of the magazines there , they 're looking really , really merry and cheerful . |
| 15 | The English advertising agencies started getting into a very interesting style about three years ago and then they kind of blew it away , they forgot which started letter-spacing upper and lower case . |
| 16 | The double-voicedness of the novels examined in this chapter is thus itself double : not only are they illustrations of how the voice of an individual interacts with the anonymous collective voice of a discursive system , they also stage the confrontation between the language of fiction and that of the human sciences which have the same object but different methods . |
| 17 | Are information and decision making separate activities or are they part of a continuum and , therefore , inter-related ? |
| 18 | Q When you look at your diary after a few days , and your tally of tantrums , are they part of a more general pattern ? |
| 19 | Are they part of the problem ? |
| 20 | Are they part of Harry too ? ’ |
| 21 | Were they part of a manuscript ? ’ |
| 22 | or are they part of the |
| 23 | They part of the banging . |
| 24 | And some of them , of course , emigrated to the United States because they could n't cope with life back in the old lands , the Shakers , are they part of the same sort |
| 25 | Are they , are they part of the University , or are they entirely separate from the University ? |
| 26 | In this sense ancient people were artists as they lived their whole lives in harmony with the Earth , but were they artists in the more conventional sense ? |
| 27 | Erm as well as that we get a little bit of sulphur dioxide and we get oxides of nitrogen , which are pretty nasty , those are the one 's they et around Los Angeles , and the big smoggy cities . |
| 28 | From the wave point of view this is hardly a surprise , because it was just they component of the oscillation which got through . |
| 29 | They hanker for the climate , the friendly slower-paced lifestyle and lack of congestion … and a new start at 40 . |
| 30 | Two enlarged bomb-shaped protuberances of pure dazzling chrome — or were they bombs after all ? |