Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two acts which Oedipus committed , killing his father and having sexual intercourse with his mother , are forbidden in human societies because there is a strong desire to perform them both . |
| 2 | But Horsley did not seem to see things like that , and he had cheered them up mightily with a little speech congratulating them all and insisting ‘ the team ’ must stay together . |
| 3 | These three objectives reflect aspects of the production problem and , ideally , the manufacturer would like a feasible solution maximising them all . |
| 4 | A cracked shout arrested them both . |
| 5 | ‘ The point I was making was that the parity of fear within the Catholic and Protestant communities might help in a perverse way to make them both recognise the importance of living beside each other and for the killings to stop . ’ |
| 6 | The episode shows , as Whyte says , ‘ not a clash between Church and State but a shifting consensus involving them both , ( 1980:399 ) . |
| 7 | The best way to treat special damages is to deal with each item of special damage in a separate paragraph and to have a final paragraph totalling them all up and giving a global figure . |
| 8 | I left the cinema with a rush of questions , mainly about blood , and a wise response answered them all : ‘ It 's only a film . ’ |