Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ They have told me about these steps they have taken to check this out and I 'm really delighted with their attitude . |
| 2 | Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’ |
| 3 | Making sure that your candidate attends every meeting , for er s you know during er an election campaign they 've got to attend all the meetings . |
| 4 | Just to confuse matters they have decided to rename all their products . |
| 5 | The Girls slept in cubicles with others , which seemed strange at first but the fun they generated helped to overcome any homesickness . |
| 6 | Er bearing in mind they 've also got eight thousand pounds of earnings and so the eight thousand pounds of earnings they 've got to use that up er savings , sorry , savings not earnings er before they can actually get means tested erm and there 's a s a sliding scale between three thousand and there . |
| 7 | Because some physicians regard IBS as a diagnosis of exclusion they feel compelled to exclude all organic disease . |
| 8 | We thanked the WO officials for the time and trouble they had taken to discuss all these issues with us . |
| 9 | In economic terms they seem to have had little effect : in Merseyside , for instance , which has had every new scheme , economic decline has not even been halted , let alone reversed . |
| 10 | But with a certain amount of bemusement they 've had to overcome several problems to meet their latest challenge . |
| 11 | Ever since men , whether they could read or write , have entertained values they have sought to express these in symbols . |
| 12 | you give them another ten minutes they 've got to make some banging to knock it round |
| 13 | Neither the state nor its government is a person ; they are collections of people , and if none of these separate people has acted in any way inconsistently with his or her own principles , what sense can it make to say that the state they represent has done this ? |
| 14 | I can only assume this is the reason they have failed to make any progress in hunting down our missing grandstand . |
| 15 | And whether the wheel is turning too fast for them to cope with it somewhere along the line they 've lost control any and there 's still I 'm told young many a time a good shop steward and a good management should be a good team together , but erm unless they can work in harmony you know it 's no good . |
| 16 | Before they sailed from London they had undertaken to do all that they could under all the emergencies of the voyage . |
| 17 | Was he too remembering the last time they had decided to keep each other warm ? |