Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] they [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 2 | And some places that erm I know that in some places they have their own local way of speaking and then they speak a different way to other folk . |
| 3 | Funny way they get them all the way out to the other side ! |
| 4 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 5 | Brian Jacksons wrote eloquently about the still frequently thwarted aspirations of young fathers today to be different from the invisible or authoritarian men they remember their own fathers as having been . |
| 6 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 7 | For a few terrible moments they saw it all , and cowered , covering their eyes . |
| 8 | Over five centuries they developed their own art and architecture , which were derived from Greek and oriental sources , but adapted to their needs in Italy . |
| 9 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 10 | One day they handed us some chipped potatoes , and there was enough oil on them to boil another portion . |
| 11 | They are scarcely adult , some men : they wish women to understand them , and to that end they tell them all their secrets ; and then , when they are properly understood , they hate their women for understanding them . |
| 12 | At the point when abolitionists turned to making the emancipation issue a mass campaign they published their own news-sheet , the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter ( 1825–30 ) , followed by the Anti-Slavery Reporter ( 1830–3 ) and thereafter the mark of an antislavery organisation with claims to national standing was a paper of this kind . |
| 13 | And when he gets the other stuff they give you that big bloody beaker full of it ! |