Example sentences of "they [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not lugging it up them flipping stairs again ! |
| 2 | Ridiculous making them quarter-hour points — because the burglars knew where you were . |
| 3 | ‘ Why do you call them bouncing handbags ? ’ |
| 4 | The researchers selected 35 people who ate spicy food regularly and gave 19 of them 32 solutions containing different amounts of capsaicin and sugar . |
| 5 | ‘ Francesca 's got four brothers , see , two of them professional singers , two of them by the grace of God ordinary working stiffs in respectable offices . ’ |
| 6 | There are four new cassette decks , two of them twin-transport units taking two cassettes ( KX- W262 at £199.95 and KX-W362 at £249.95 ) and two conventional using two-motor transports with Dolby B , C and Hx Pro and optional remote control ( KX-260 at £149.95 and KX-360 at £179.95 ) . |
| 7 | It has 10,000 sq ft for sales , and 32 staff , 24 of them full-time equivalents . |
| 8 | Why are statistics not kept of trainees whose employers give them full-time jobs later ? |
| 9 | Instead , Frith sent them strange singers , beautiful and sick like oak-apples , like robins ' pin-cushions on the wild rose . |
| 10 | Dr Sachmeyer has to give them European mouths . ’ |
| 11 | But they also brought with them European innovations ; and already , in the winter of 1888 , the bazaars were stocked with articles never before seen : porcelain , lamps , glasses , mirrors , brushes , writing materials , coffee , preserves , biscuits . |
| 12 | However mangled they might be — in pidgin , for example — European languages took with them European concepts . |
| 13 | A tall , dark figure who had no pole moved amongst them issuing commands , and slowly the flatboat drew over to the bank . |
| 14 | A festival held to revive the art attracted hundreds of people , many of them complete novices . |
| 15 | Them twilly things like |
| 16 | You know she used to be so petite , but god them damn legs on her ! |
| 17 | erm And a lot of the time this gentleman would have been sorting through the data , finding out who owed how much money , writing them polite letters , and this is the sort of thing you can do very quickly with a computer . |
| 18 | It allowed workers the opportunity to buy as much as 20 per cent of their company 's shares at half price as well as offering them low-interest loans for buying future shares once a stock market was established . |
| 19 | You may pay all them flaming taxes and you get stuff all out of it . |
| 20 | Her hyperactivity and restlessness were taken up in the constant roaming , first about the churches in her own neighbourhood , then to religious sites in England , then on pilgrimage in Europe , all of them respectable things to do . |
| 21 | Same as them posh blokes what come here — they all want to be caned . |
| 22 | I can see them bloody lines on her stocking |
| 23 | it was fine , I thought right get up and get them bloody curtains washed , I had 'em on the line , but do you think our Mike noticed them , well when he came home from work , because I thought of having to put 'em back up again , I just |
| 24 | Can you move them bloody knickers ! |
| 25 | cost them bloody loads and then they 'll turn it into an absolute cack heap like it was before . |
| 26 | Huh , I think I had such a good night , you know what you 've bloody well done he said you 've got up he said before you was ready he said , you knew you wanted to get on he said , and you 've got up he said with the intentions he said , you had them bloody cakes he said before you had breakfast , well I had to with her coming |
| 27 | Oh I , I , I just , I do n't , not to get rid of them bloody horses , alright I know what horses cost . |
| 28 | ‘ I hate them bloody things . ’ |
| 29 | Cos it 's them bloody things we 've got ! |
| 30 | They never ever mention them bloody things , they were them windscreen wipers which I ordered before Christmas and it 's , it 's ridiculous , cos that 's , I know I can eh , I know by the er , by the er , that 's where I sent them back to that Brian Mill whatever I call it , well |