Example sentences of "[pron] they [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the U V A machine , the problem we 've got on there which Ray 's explained or Peter raised this morning , there is in between the the drive belts that take the film down the former and which They 've put a new set on which is a hundred and forty pound a pi They 're in between the two drive wheels , there is a plastic adjuster . |
| 2 | They used Hilbert 's wine glasses because none of them could tolerate drinking from plastic or cartons but they ate off paper plates of which they had bought a hundred . |
| 3 | Not only do they receive the first offers of any work that is available ( and in other than special circumstances always accept such offers ) , but also the organisations for which they work undertake a sufficient volume of business to make offers of work for many days each week and for most weeks of the year . |
| 4 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 5 | Plaintiffs must prove that the words of which they complain have a defamatory meaning , that the words refer to them , and that the defendant was responsible for publishing them . |
| 6 | He signalled to the waiter ; during the brief ceremony of settling the bill , handing over a tip and saying yes thank you they 'd had a lovely evening and enjoyed their meal , his avoidance of her eye was constant and deliberate . |
| 7 | Volunteers at Cleveland Aid for Romanian Children are beginning to get together everything they need to renovate a 55-bed children 's hospital on the outskirts of Iasi . |
| 8 | And this kiss was meaningless , because there was nothing behind it ; it was only the last flickering spark of something they had destroyed a long time ago . |
| 9 | In other parts of Brazil , giant corporations exist alongside small peasant producers , with whom they have developed a complex inter-dependence , based on the supply of goods rather than labour . |
| 10 | In a move to expand and diversify its activities within the Spanish mainland , Sotheby 's Holdings Inc. has purchased the Madrid auction house Edmund Peel and Asociados , with whom they have had a long-term business association . |
| 11 | From the hut behind them they had heard a single shot . |
| 12 | Meredith lost herself in the arrangements , and between them they managed to create a reasonable atmosphere again . |
| 13 | According to him they had brought a great deal of food with them and despite the loss of Crane 's saddlebags and wallet there seemed to be no shortage of provisions . |
| 14 | They they 've got a free nylon bag in , in those where they . |
| 15 | Of course I 'm not racist , but let's face it they 've got a different culture , just like the South . ’ |
| 16 | Around it they had developed a rigid code of honour — Shen-sei-go — which contained the principles according to which every Manchu male was expected to live and die . |