Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] they [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came home , packed their bags , left Wales for good and set up in Brussels until they found a new house . |
| 2 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 3 | Another complained she was attacked by Courtney after they attended a medical conference at a south coast hotel six years ago . |
| 4 | Both hardened internationals , they could n't cope with John Fashanu and Robbie Earle as they plundered the first and third goals for Dons . |
| 5 | For as they left England so they left the English language behind . |
| 6 | If people buy Volvos because they think a better car will plug the hole in the ozone layer , they will buy nuclear power on the same principle . |
| 7 | The Tories may have shaken up British Telecom because they dislike a state-run monopoly that seems to care more for itself than its customers ; but the main impact on BT has little to do with monopolies or state ownership . |
| 8 | All claimed that they had attacked La Tablada because they believed a military coup was under way and that they were trying to forestall it ; they also said that their attempts to surrender had been ignored and that at least four of their comrades had been tortured and killed . |
| 9 | ‘ Sorry , ’ said Pooley when they connected a few minutes later . |
| 10 | On their arrival back in Bogota , the team started on initial analysis of the data they had collected , prior to their return to the UK where they completed a full report . |
| 11 | Mum was getting on by this time and her own health was n't excellent , and I moved to Manchester so we could be near the RMCH where they do a vast amount with CF. We hired a retired nurse to act as housekeeper and she did his physio when I was n't there , and between us we managed to keep him going . ’ |
| 12 | In this area we have your successors at of Woodbridge as they continue an honourable tradition . |
| 13 | They really should have outpointed the New Zealand XV in the first match at Hamilton for they outplayed the New Zealanders for rather more than half the game . |
| 14 | Its heritage goes back to when ‘ The Witan ’ , or the council of the Saxon kings , established the significance of Witney when they chose the then village as a meeting place in the 10th. and 11th. centuries . |
| 15 | Eileen said to Joe as they joined the hundreds of people streaming up Edge Lane . |
| 16 | Cruising Altitude passed the pacemaking Floyd as they crossed the final hurdle and he looked all set for a comfortable victory . |
| 17 | Pro-ETA demonstrators had greeted King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia when they made a two-day visit to San Sebastián , in the Basque region , at the end of July . |
| 18 | One allocation that would be both efficient and equitable in this sense would be an initial endowment at 1 where both A and B have the same X and Y. Since they face the same budget constraint , each can have what the other has so that any trades away from equal allocation to the contract curve must meet the reverse allocation test illustrated as part ( b ) of the figure . |
| 19 | But in France if they did the same thing they would be talking in French down their machine . |
| 20 | We pray for the governments and peoples of eastern Europe as they enter a new era ; for Africa , that its peoples may be delivered from fear , oppression and famine , especially in Ethiopia and Sudan ; for the Israeli and Palestinian people that they may honour each other and seek the common good ; |
| 21 | They had been followed to Sleetburn by the Wilkinson family , who had moved from West Thorngarth Hill down the dale at Hury because they needed a bigger farm , I seem to remember . |
| 22 | Crinkled quiffs of white foam spurted from the steel bows of the five-thousand-ton French passenger freighter Avignon as they parted the warm , tropic-blue waters of the South China Sea . |
| 23 | But we also want people to understand what is happening in places like Latin America so they have a better awareness of why Oxfam is trying to help . |
| 24 | It is unclear whether or not the rule that private employment rights are not enforceable under Ord. 53 is an application of a wider principle that contractual rights can not be protected by AJR unless they possess a sufficient ‘ public element ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm hoping the doctors 'll have broken the news about her husband and her daughter , sir , ’ said Camb as they crossed the black and white checkerboard foyer of the station . |
| 26 | Sprinter units Nos 150242 and 150230 pass the distant signal for Greenfield as they work the 10.03 Liverpool to Scarborough service on 31 August 1987 . |
| 27 | For example , a couple with two children aged six and 11 would still be entitled to DWA if they had a net income of £189 a week . |
| 28 | Who on earth would want a holiday in Wales if they had the slightest knowledge of the climate ? |
| 29 | Japanese companies have chosen Australia and Switzerland because they lack a domestic industry that might protest against the import of ‘ free ’ high-performance computers . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , ’ said Henry as they reached the tiny office where he kept a telephone , ‘ I must go and teach my next pupil . |