Example sentences of "they the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It enables them to find a suitable assistant and agree with them the hours , times and tasks required . |
| 2 | And some companies are of such eminence in the world that , for an appropriate emolument , retired politicians , diplomats and higher civil servants are more than happy to bestow on them the benefits of the business acumen and personal probity for which they are rightly renowned . |
| 3 | Thus the implementation of the Maastricht Treaty is seen by Northern and Central Europeans as an earnest of the will and capacity of the West Europeans to extend to them the benefits of European Union . |
| 4 | It is wise , however , to teach them the basics of radio and how to construct an interesting letter ! |
| 5 | As long as you teach them the basics , they should be all right . |
| 6 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 7 | They are custodians of a vast variety of potatoes — hundreds of genetically differing kinds , no doubt containing between them the secrets of natural disease resistance , tolerance of climate change , chemical-free extended shelf-life , frying without fat absorption and who knows what other desirable characteristics . |
| 8 | I would take as one of them the letters in Assyrian characters sent from Persia to Sparta which the Athenians intercepted and managed to translate in 425 B.C. : for surely by Assyria grammata Thucydides must mean an Aramaic text ( 4.50 ) . |
| 9 | The reverse of both tiles was damaged , and on only one of them the letters NDS END could just be made out , but Martha could not be mistaken . |
| 10 | I just wan na find out who was writing them the letters and then I can finish . |
| 11 | The models he works with may be shot by all the big name photographers , but it is the pictures that they do with Steven Meisel that will make them the icons of our times . |
| 12 | Instead , we had the bizarre suggestion that prison order was likely to be more easily maintained if , on entering a prison , prisoners were given a little package telling them the consequences of their actions if they stepped out of line . |
| 13 | As he gazed out over the still wet cobblestones , all he could see was the glimmer of lights — lights on the barrack square , lights on the sentry posts at the main gates , lights in the barrack huts , and beyond them the lights of the hospital 's east wing . |
| 14 | Below them the lights of the town twinkled unconcernedly on . |
| 15 | Down beneath them the lights round the swimming-pool shone cheerfully , and the voice of the singer floated up to them in the starlight , as in a natural amphitheatre . |
| 16 | Rail privatisation gives them the shivers . |
| 17 | God gave them the lands in sacred trust , thousands of years ago . |
| 18 | THE world 's stock exchanges had a turbulent week as politics and economics conspired to give them the jitters . |
| 19 | He had a lot to learn about operating methods from the people on the shop floor , but he could also pass on to them the fruits of his university education . |
| 20 | Only " estates and interests " in land are property , and carry with them the rights to exclusive use of the land and to transfer it . |
| 21 | Any member of the council who wishes to inspect our land is welcome to do so and we would be happy to show them the improvements we have made and are continuing to make . |
| 22 | To assist them the Farmers ' Union of Wales has produced an easy-to-use flock record book costing 50p . |
| 23 | The brilliance of the flame had collected a large crowd of urchins , dancing in the warmth ; behind them the cabmen stamped their feet and held forth their hands to the glow . |
| 24 | He believes that about a million new households will form in the South-east by 2001 , most of them the sons and daughters and new elderly of the region itself . |
| 25 | It would cost France over 77 000 of her sons , including 2000 officers ( among them the sons of two Marshals of France and of 20 Generals ) and even heavier casualties among the Foreign Legion , the colonial troops from Algeria , Morocco and Senegal : and of course the Vietnamese soldiers conscripted by France to fight the Viet Minh . |
| 26 | But if we do , we should also discern in them the origins of the teamwork and collaboration that we have brought to an unparalleled peak of complexity and that has brought us some of our greatest achievements . |
| 27 | When wicked women called Charlottes came to tempt them the hermits cast off all their clothes and rolled naked in the patch of nettles behind the pigsty . |
| 28 | The tips of the spiny ribs pass through special pores as they impale the predator and they carry with them the secretions of nearby glands — glands that cause intensely painful poisoning of the inside of the attacker 's mouth . |
| 29 | The first women doctors and lawyers , the women artists and writers , the politicians and trades unionists , the women who came out as lesbians ; and before them the witches and the suffragettes : the paths we walk so freely are paths they laid down for us . |
| 30 | Around them the coolies punished earlier whimpered and groaned in their sleep . |