Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northumberland lost 15–3 to Lancashire in their opening match , so Cheshire will be looking to grab another two points in their bid to regain the Northern title they won in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 2 | If the wind blew to the South-East they would be mostly in the U.S.S.R. … if the wind blew the other way they would extend well back up into Western Europe . ’ |
| 3 | The housing aid said the only thing they could offer me is bed and breakfast . |
| 4 | However , should individual lexicographers habitually use excessive memory , it is possible for the Computer Group to restrict the virtual memory they are allocated . |
| 5 | When The Art Newspaper approached the British Museum they pointed out that they do not possess the Altar of Cybele , nor had they yet received a letter from Ronchey . |
| 6 | On the contrary , for teachers to be grappling individually and collectively with the deepest and knottiest problems in education provides the only hope they have of recapturing their equanimity and satisfaction . |
| 7 | One legend taught that if a man and a woman caught the same wave they would be joined in physical union . |
| 8 | For so long as she and Andrew were together , a pulse , a nerve , something integral to her loving would break free from her control to distort the nearest moment they might share . |
| 9 | Underneath the mohair coat and the surplus flesh lurked the second-class citizen they had grudgingly tolerated at Plumford Grammar School . |
| 10 | In the boutique near the admin bulding the first person they saw was Mrs Richards . |
| 11 | In the early days of the Church , Christians suffered persecution and had to have great faith to survive the violent opposition they received . |
| 12 | Stirling had five jeeps with him , and as dawn broke the following day they arrived at the road . |
| 13 | The apparently calm , almost holiday mood of this Bosnian couple disguises the sheer terror they 've endured over the past few weeks . |
| 14 | In order to gain the maximum effect they manufactured alloys of copper , silver and gold and invented procedures for gilding and silvering copper . |
| 15 | But had the Labour Party won the last Election they too would be facing hefty tax bills and precisely the same threat to their lavish standards of living . |
| 16 | Her stories are a playful mimicry of the techniques of realist writers who use devices such as genealogical trees as ‘ semiological compensation ’ to help the reader assimilate the complex world they have invented . |
| 17 | But William 's grandad reckoned the real reason they had it in for him was because of the name . |