Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb base] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | MacDonald concludes with the view that non-traditional students are an advantage to higher education although they present it with a challenge . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | she goes to part-time so they get it at a reduced rate . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Yes , if they put you in a |
| 12 | cunt , wonder what that would be if they put it in a dictionary . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you think the trick will work if they trace us to the Hilton ? ’ |
| 14 | Under the general safety requirement , retailers are criminally liable if they knowingly expose an unsafe product for sale , whereas in civil law , under the product liability regime , retailers are liable to third party victims only if they present themselves as the producer or can not identify the person who supplied them with the product . |
| 15 | If they know nothing upon the question , is that nothingness still to be respected ? ’ |
| 16 | If they know everything about a job then they may well be able to fix the problems for you . |
| 17 | I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl . |
| 18 | ‘ Even if they stop you on a busy shopping morning and ask you to sign petitions ? ’ |
| 19 | Of course , if they get me on the phone , I 'm lost . |
| 20 | so it 's bad enough if they gather them in the gathering them in the barrel like , the barrel bit , but not the sort of |
| 21 | Why do n't they have a big old disaster and see if they feature it on the news |
| 22 | ‘ If they locate it outside a house , then they establish when it is there , and prepare an attack for that period . ’ |
| 23 | And I 'm sure they 'll pick them up if they see them in the |
| 24 | IF THEY find themselves in a tangle at an anti-social hour , the United Nations men now taking over in Somalia will at least have the chance of talking it over with their masters in New York — as well as with their unofficial masters in Washington . |
| 25 | Does that mean they would have if they have it at the ? |
| 26 | Because he did n't , he stayed cos they class him as an A person . |
| 27 | Being a war correspondent is a genuinely dangerous job , just like they portray it in the movies . |
| 28 | The definitions are , at this early stage of our knowledge of Myrinian culture , valuable in themselves , not only because they reveal something of the inadequacy of our own language , but because they throw some light on to the mysteries of an alien culture . |
| 29 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 30 | I 'm sure you can appreciate that people are wary about big-city developers coming in and turning everywhere upside-down because they know nothing about the area . ’ |