Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’ |
| 2 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 3 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 4 | To a lesser degree they still exist nearer home ; in the Alps herdsmen take their cattle to the ‘ Alm ’ meadows where they tend them during the summer , and in Scotland and Wales the hill sheep spend half the year on the mountain commons whilst the lower , enclosed land grows winter keep . |
| 5 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 6 | The larvae then migrate through the tissue of the mouth ( cheeks , tongue , and pharynx ) to the stomach , where they attach themselves to the stomach lining . |
| 7 | most of the changes that have been made to those houses have been er erm at the request of Newton Sherwood District Council , they the the they lifted the room pitch , we had a lower one , they wanted a higher one , erm , and you know , erm , all all basically erm the the although they counted it as a change since application |
| 8 | At that time the DPKR had only 7,000 members and although they dissociated themselves from the Russian Communist Party , many were still members of the CPSU . |
| 9 | MacDonald concludes with the view that non-traditional students are an advantage to higher education although they present it with a challenge . |
| 10 | The managers I interviewed appeared to lack commitment to improving motivation , although they identified it as a problem . |
| 11 | getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case . |
| 12 | Although they see it as a step in the right direction , people working in the area fear that it may take another generation before Karamoja cools down . |
| 13 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 14 | she goes to part-time so they get it at a reduced rate . |
| 15 | They were n't too pleased about it , so they kicked her out the house I think . |
| 16 | His bulk , thin but long , was hard for them to get up their spiral stairs , so they left him on the sofa below , on the floor that lay over an ironmonger 's shop . |
| 17 | she said no , Jean said oh I ca n't walk that , have a bloody heart attack she says , so they put her in a trolley |
| 18 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 19 | ’ So they kept us in a few days . |
| 20 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 21 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 22 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
| 23 | There was this girl in a bath of asses milk , yuk ! and it had all turned to cheese , so they put her on the table with a dish of figs for afters . |
| 24 | She had thoughtful parents , though , who thought the Grand Canyon was for real and so they put her on the waiting list . |
| 25 | In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop . |
| 26 | I wonder why they reduced them then , if they put them in the new catalogue , oh there 's a slight difference ai n't there , there 's no bow |
| 27 | Yes , if they put you in a |
| 28 | cunt , wonder what that would be if they put it in a dictionary . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you think the trick will work if they trace us to the Hilton ? ’ |
| 30 | If they saw him in a play , they saw a middle-aged man pretending to be young , in an outdated vehicle that bore as much relation to their reality as crinolines and penny-farthings . |