Example sentences of "[pron] they [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm I they had to have a couple of I mean I think |
| 2 | There h have been cases where the person 's back muscles have pulled up so tight that their they 've formed an arch . |
| 3 | No they were , that 's what they were were n't it when it all happened , the old Revered somebody or other , they wilful murder but erm yeah basically it does n't seem like , there was no real evidence as to who erm fired first and there was no conclusion that the about that , but they were certainly I R A gunmen , para 's , its like without a doubt if you know some people , but like with those high powered weapons they may , alright its unfortunately that somebody may have got shot , but it may not of been the main shot , that may , may of been a ricochet or , or anything like that , both their they 've got a killing range of up to three mile so one mate come round , he says he 's gon na come round again tomorrow and have a look at it |
| 4 | Their leaders immediately launched a campaign against the agreement which they felt gave the adherents of the Pope a foothold in the government of their territory . |
| 5 | Both in the Forum Report ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : xii ) and in their written submission ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1984 ) , they not only repeated their oft-stated attitude to catholic schools , defending them from any contribution to sectarianism in Ireland , but opposed the introduction of divorce and any weakening of legislation which they felt protected the family . |
| 6 | Asking why , were told the Standard had written a story on ‘ a dominatrix club I 'm a member of ’ , in which they 'd described the Penthouse Pet as ‘ plump ’ . |
| 7 | They take the infantile mewing and they modify it to each situation in which they wish to express a need for something . |
| 8 | This schematic characterization , however , does not do justice either to the manner in which they attempted to keep both poles in play at once , nor to the way in which they came to concede the impossibility of the theoretical projects which they undertook . |
| 9 | If they found a passage which they thought had a bearing on the issue in this case , that passage would have to be construed in the light of the proceedings as a whole . |
| 10 | A collection was made for Ian and his wife Jeanette by all the companies in the Engineering Services Division , with which they intend to buy a painting . |
| 11 | Erm I I think it is true to say that the , the cost er reduction which they offered brought the price back within what we regarded as the affordability within our defence programme , er the level of affordability . |
| 12 | For workers at field level , a first and necessary step is to make a kind of local map , in which they seek to pinpoint the characteristics of the neighbourhoods which they serve and what is currently available which can be built upon . |
| 13 | In these transitional years of fluctuating opinion some continued to adopt a passive attitude towards fatalities , in which they sought to trace the hand of God , whilst others favoured active remedies for what they held to be primarily human failings . |
| 14 | Having stressed the importance of reducing as far as possible the number of permissible reasons for refusal , the authors refer to the cited ground , which they admit has no precedent in international agreements on judicial assistance . |
| 15 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
| 16 | The simple reason for which they failed to make the headlines and fire up the imagination of rugby pundits around the world is that they were blacks and coloureds in an apartheid-ridden South Africa . |
| 17 | Huge gangs of navvies , dealing with their new task in the same manner with which they had extended the railway lines the length and breadth of the land . |
| 18 | In Northern Nigeria , he succeeded in detaching the judicial system and the technical departments from the grip of the administrative service , whose claims to omnipotence and omnicompetence were thereby permanently reduced from the heights to which they had risen a decade before . |
| 19 | A family who lived there befriended us , looked after our bags and , solicitous of each other , we took turns on the one spare seat from which they had moved a child . |
| 20 | The National Audit Office Report on the FMI ( 1986 ) found , in practice , that departments differed in the extent to which they had adopted the FMI . |
| 21 | The financial rationale of the great companies had been the way in which they had enabled a generation of investors , most of whom were substantial , to become merchants by proxy . |
| 22 | A list had already been published ( on April 1 ) of the 22 worst " abusers " of the House bank , those who had run account deficits which exceeded their next month 's pay for 20 per cent of the months in which they had held an account at the bank . |
| 23 | A new CDU-FDP combination had been considered but the FDP seemed fickle and unreliable : October 1966 was not the first occasion of course on which they had left the Cabinet . |
| 24 | He did not wait for the servants to open the doors , but just pushed through into the entrance hall , and then into the great ballroom where a score of painters and upholsterers were finishing a long night 's work during which they had transformed the ballroom into a silk-hung fantasy . |
| 25 | The argument for the suppliants was concerned only with whether the mistake under which they had paid the duty was one of fact or of law . |
| 26 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 27 | When the archbishop of Canterbury came before the pope for his pallium , the canons of York entangled the Canterbury monks in questions about the precise state in which they had found the privileges — whether they had seals attached to them , and so on . |
| 28 | Winchelsey learnt of this bull in December 1296 and published it in the assembly of January 1297 , called to consider the royal demand made in November on which they had deferred a decision . |
| 29 | Lydia thought herself very slow not to have realised all this before , but then she reflected that the rapidity with which they had learned the circumstances of this secluded family was in itself strange . |
| 30 | Lewis then went on to record the months of companionship and collaboration , during which they had evolved the characters of the tough young microbe hunter Martin Arrowsmith and his boss Max Gottleb — who de Kruif modelled on Jacques Loeb and his own former chief , Frederick Novy . |