Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With some , like Tony Jacklin or Susan Hampshire , it is perfectly obvious they got it through hard work in their particular calling . |
| 2 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 3 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 4 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |
| 5 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
| 6 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 7 | ‘ They put us under tremendous pressure . |
| 8 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |
| 9 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |
| 10 | The process may sound wasteful , but they conduct it with great economy . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's what they teach you in military service , is it ? ’ remarked his father , from one end of the table . |
| 12 | They watched him with sly greediness . |
| 13 | They watched him with unconcealed anxiety , wet already with the light rain . |
| 14 | Now they use them for arable cash crops and special market garden crops . |
| 15 | they always seemed backward , they found that they took them to different specialist and the truth is , they 've both left school now and got jobs , but they were er , dyslexia |
| 16 | They took me to Lochleven Castle , and put me in a room like a prison . |
| 17 | Cereal farmers are using less nitrogen fertiliser and have changed the way that they apply it in direct response to concern over nitrogen pollution , according to a report form the Home Grown Cereals Authority . |
| 18 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 19 | At least they do it with considerable wit . |
| 20 | One might not expect sawing a Renault 5 in half to constitute part of an electronics research project , but that 's what they call it at sub-basement level , below the Strand . |
| 21 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 22 | That is natural : they identify it with lousy government . |
| 23 | They stood her in good stead when her father enrolled her at her next school , Riddlesworth Hall , two hours ' drive from Park House . |
| 24 | A Negro dies of heart failure , they blame it on racial segregation . |
| 25 | They see it as important part of improving the service they give . |
| 26 | They eyed us with vague curiosity and then returned to their ( apparently fruitless ) fishing . |
| 27 | Whitlock had spent most of the afternoon with them and he 'd come away with the distinct impression that they held him in little regard . |
| 28 | They sedated him with Southern Comfort . |