Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madeleine was still very young , Harry told himself as they drove the next ten miles in silence . |
| 2 | There would hardly have been harmony between them if they had the same desires , if their interests coincided , if they were a threat to each other . |
| 3 | it costs me a bomb for phone calls to them cos they put the long , wrong address on |
| 4 | What is surprising is that their refusal to read black texts — a refusal that makes no disturbance in their intellectual life — repeats itself when they reread the traditional , established works of literature worthy of their attention . |
| 5 | Normally she looked down her nose at men and then ignored them unless they needed the sharp edge of her tongue . |
| 6 | Besides , she was ultimately responsible to Liz for the twins ' welfare , Laura firmly reminded herself as they mounted the wide steps up to the front door of Lady Wyndham 's house . |
| 7 | The Jamaican with the gun follows them while they cross the gloomy concrete floor . |
| 8 | It was also highly theatrical , as his whole adult life had been : an airliner diverted to an unexpected destination , the body found dead on arrival , people already waiting at his destination to greet him before they heard the shocking news , grief and incredulity on all sides as the story spread around the world . |
| 9 | He followed her as they approached the green-and-gold-painted double doors leading to the ballroom . |
| 10 | This local Swaggart , who has tears in his eyes as he preaches the gospel , is tormented by the rows of large , bobbing girls in front of him as they sing the bouncy gospel renditions of traditional hymns . |
| 11 | He felt her lift up to him as they started the final phase of their journey . |
| 12 | ‘ I can walk down here , ’ she told him when they reached the long gallery . |
| 13 | Well some some of them will be removable , because they remove them whilst they do the second phase . |
| 14 | Puffins leaving their homes join it immediately and travel round within it until they reach the seaward side and relative safety . |
| 15 | A Tory headquarters spokesman denied they disclosed her name to the press , claiming they did not know it until they saw the Independent newspaper on Wednesday . |
| 16 | Now what we have to know is whether or not they are in fact getting these contracts because they are the best and the cheapest , or whether they are getting it because they have the best connections and they are paying the most money . |
| 17 | When Sarah told her that he had been offered and refused a foreman 's job , Anne was bitterly angry that he had said nothing about it when they met the previous evening , but now she was unable to resist saying , ‘ Yes , that would be great , ’ as coolly as possible . |
| 18 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 19 | They will conclude , as people on a South London council estate expressed it when they observed the middle-class congregation going into their local church each Sunday , ‘ That church is n't for the likes of us . ’ |
| 20 | Well I love it when they do the acrobatic part of it ! |
| 21 | Clearly , some of the needs now met by social services departments would be better met by the old people themselves if they had the financial means to preserve their own independence . |
| 22 | Indeed the silk that we ourselves spin and weave into the most luxurious of all our fabrics is unwound from the cocoon that silk-moth caterpillars weave around themselves before they start the complex process of changing into adults . |
| 23 | The industry 's corporate leaders must have laughed demonically to themselves when they saw the full weight of the law coming down on people manufacturing and distributing comparatively harmless drugs , such as marijuana . |
| 24 | Two solutions might occur to ingenious engineers , indeed did occur to them when they encountered the same problem , again in the analogous case of radar . |
| 25 | Then coral pink walls of rock closed about them as they took the deep cut into Wells . |
| 26 | Athelstan gauged it to be about two o'clock in the afternoon and this was confirmed by a servant who bumped into them as they passed the great hall . |
| 27 | Manningham , a burly fifty-year-old with an aggressive manner and a paunch , met them as they descended the far side of the bridge . |
| 28 | There was no contact between them as they toured the magnificent sixth-century shrine . |
| 29 | I remember how calm and serene my father looked as he lay in his coffin and how I seemed to feel something break within me when they lowered the plush-covered lid and we rode behind the hearse to Rosedale Cemetery for the interment . |