Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] they [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask schools if they have planned any special lessons in citizenship . |
| 2 | David please will you get me some teabags if they 've got any ? |
| 3 | The divisional head office has offered to help the local offices if they want to take that route . |
| 4 | We 've tried all the other channels but they 've closed all the doors to us . |
| 5 | Each remembered all too clearly Okawi 's parting words before they had pushed each canoe clear of the beach : |
| 6 | Now I 'm an ex-gardener I 'm a horticulturist it take roughly about forty years for trees to reach maturity it does n't say much for our planners if they plan to put those trees there and then now are gon na have them up again it sounds much like change for changes sake and that that it basically my comment . |
| 7 | At Coventry in 1701 , to give one typical example , one Whig alderman threatened to deprive a couple of local alehousekeepers of their licences if they refused to give both their votes to the Whig candidates . |
| 8 | Strict separation was the order of the day , forcing some couples to leave notes in drainpipes and resort to all kinds of strategies if they wished to communicate more than a passing word . |
| 9 | Now you might think well stags have harem groups and they 've got these enormous antlers and they could bully and er I mean a harem group looks kind of fascist kind of social structure you know when a male dominates female , but in fact field observations of how stags actually deal with their females show that they 're very tender erm towards them and they have to have the cooperation of the female in order to mount . |
| 10 | So I 'll probably use those three groups until they 've got enough business and then they 'll , they 'll retract the rate , and I 'll wait for somebody else to come along . |
| 11 | It goes without saying , one hopes , that one never , never gives way to one 's own inclinations if they happen to run this way . |
| 12 | The White armies would have beaten the Reds if they 'd got that cross . ’ |
| 13 | Packet of crunchies if they 've got any . |
| 14 | Despite some earlier hesitations , it is now certain that A commits the tort of intimidation against C if he threatens B with conduct which is unlawful in relation to B and thereby intentionally causes B to act ( or refrain from acting ) in a way which causes damage to C. It is not a requirement of this tort that B's conduct be in any way unlawful in relation to C. An old illustration is Garret v. Taylor , where the plaintiff was the lessee of a quarry and alleged that the defendant had ‘ disturbed ’ his customers and his workmen by ‘ threatening to mayhem and vex them with suits if they had brought any stones . ’ |
| 15 | Clwyd North West MP , Rod Richards , became concerned over complaints from constituents that they had to travel all the way to Wrexham for benefit agency tribunal hearings . |
| 16 | At the Albert Hall Rally of the Left Book Club in February 1937 , " Mr Harry Pollitt said there was a new awakening among the middle classes and they had to rope these people in rather than keep them out . " |
| 17 | The rails not only provide a space for the carriages in their starting places but they need to accommodate both carriages sometimes . |
| 18 | Having said that , however , most left academics and activists when it comes to the electoral crunch do vote Labour , excusing their commitment by saying that they do so " without illusions " but perhaps signalling by their actions that they do see some kind of meaningful choice at the polls . |
| 19 | All Nottingham was beautiful and along there 'd got great big flags and they 'd trimmed all Christmas they 'd they 'd sewed all Christmas things on them . |
| 20 | I was at one stage tempted to forgo my chance to contribute to it because of the fascinating speeches of Members representing inner and outer London constituencies as they struggled to find some fairness , justice or logic in the banding system . |
| 21 | Losing at home four two to Swindon , their arch rivals after being two in front , but I 'd just like to make one point clear ; do n't blame manager Brian Horton because all of Oxford 's matches that they 've lost this season has been through their own fault : lack of character out there on the pitch , there 's nothing Brian can do sat on the bench . |
| 22 | This means assessing their likes and dislikes by means of preference tests where they can simply choose between different options , or ‘ operant conditioning ’ tests where they have to perform some task such as pecking a button to get access to ( or to exit from ) a particular environment . |
| 23 | He says they are in a long term partnership with our local hospitals and they want to do all they can to support them . |
| 24 | Our teachers were the nearest guides because they had travelled these routes before us ( though of course we would n't teach ) . |
| 25 | Martin 's an architect and and it actually probably would be you know it might be a good thing to actually sort of provoke a question with architects because they do specify these things and they 're the ones who actually say you know right we 'll specify hardwood . |
| 26 | I 'd like to take up some points as they 've occurred this morning . |
| 27 | I think we should make sure we sweep up the Selby drawings because they do include some fairly good stuff . |
| 28 | Herdwicks start lambing a year after other breeds because they need to grow enough to stand the harsh climate . |
| 29 | She said : ‘ The purpose of the grant is to extend choices for working parents , mainly women since they tend to take most responsibility for childcare . |
| 30 | It all began because my friend Pat was called by the Lord to work as a nurse in Saudi , and her experiences there gave me an interest in that country and especially in the Women as they seem to have such a hard life . |