Example sentences of "they [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ? |
| 2 | That gives water to the mills of the right wing radicals and the Neo Fascists party in Germany and they right wing radicals have already voiced their support . |
| 3 | I 'm saying as a matter of fact they are outside the equation , and that 's what 's wrong , because they 're certainly not upper class , they 're not middle class , but nor are they working class , are they ? |
| 4 | Are they low value , high volume products , or single , " big ticket " items ? |
| 5 | New legislation , which comes into force on May 18 , insists that all money-changers — be they high street banks , travel agents , hotels or specialist bureaux de change — display clearly their exchange rates and sometimes outrageous commission charges . |
| 6 | Do the different morphs ( be they different colour , adult size , shell shape , etc. ) show the same food preferences ? |
| 7 | How about they old style pack man that used to come ? |
| 8 | I just said to my hubby this morning , I said , ‘ The sooner its the Sixth of January and we 've got a they decorations back up the loft and poked all they clogged-up pine needles out the Hoover tube with a Knitting needle and its back to auld claes and parritch the better pleased I 'll be . ’ |
| 9 | Well , they false start , and now they stop . |
| 10 | Rangers have told Spurs they might be interested in a player swop deal but they wont pay cash . |
| 11 | Yeah , that 's it , they wont taste the difference anyway . |
| 12 | For several months , under the command of William le Clerc , a defrocked priest and a well-known captain of mercenaries , they wrought havoc in the Limousin . |
| 13 | Where they gorgeous marrow bones ? |
| 14 | a wind tunnel is where they put this , put the car in stands and they blow air at it , and they little smoke trails that show how the air travels over the car . |
| 15 | Monkey they good guide . |
| 16 | They good quality ? |
| 17 | It worked out as she hoped ; Tommaso was hanging about outside in the square with a group of other young men , smoking and strolling around to join the girls drawing the evening water at the fountain ; he came near her ; to her surprise , she saw he was n't smiling , not like the others , who were laughing and exchanging remarks , between themselves , grinning strenuously as they play-acted contempt for the young women they wooed . |
| 18 | Plato , after all , might never have thought of Atlantis ; and similarly Homer might never have thought of Achilles ; although this does not necessarily mean that if they did exist , they pre-existed thought in an absolute sense . |
| 19 | We 've been very careful not to be seen to be interfering or for anybody to think that we were going to tell groups how they would run their groups , because the groups are fairly autonomous and they pre-existed parish councils er , but a you know this is almost a direct invitation and we could actually respond to this in terms of an invitation and ask other groups if they would be interested in our respon in our going to , to visit them , rather than a surgery where maybe we 'd sit here and nobody would turn up . |
| 20 | The shoes they invariable look to are racing flats . |
| 21 | You know , and they long conversation with each other were they get used to it . |
| 22 | Maybe so , but they sure taste a lot better . |
| 23 | When space is limited they key thing is to arrive early and stake you claim . |
| 24 | Well they think they loose time if it 's only a woman you see ? |
| 25 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 26 | Not only were they prolific breeding stock , but some very useful dogs were to appear from their matings . |
| 27 | COUNTESS : I can no otherwise strike dead they bold presumption than to show thee my scorn and anger thus . |
| 28 | We 're alright you know , they only way you 'll get the business , he 's like that , he talks like that , is if you can you know offer a big price saving . |
| 29 | Fear against them , I still would n't put it past them , I 'm not saying they will , I 'd be very surprised if they did try to get cos they 're cos they 're on the sort of er the brink of being excepted by the rest of the world again , you know , but up until a couple of years ago , this thing happened , you know conventional warfare were and they only way we can stop them is by nuclear warfare 's |
| 30 | They only thing they could do was to go walk up to walk up a road to and contact the Evie bus but it did n't come down along for years and years . |