Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The youngsters who visited your trailer were full of enthusiasm for all they had seen and done . |
| 2 | It would probably carry on like this for at least another hour , and then the first of the departures would begin ; the ones with an early start in the morning , the ones with teenaged babysitters , the ones who rarely went out anyway … an hour after that they 'd be down to the hard core , and an hour after that it would just be a case of guiding out those last drunks who were too far-gone to find the door . |
| 3 | , it 's down Hampton Court twenty four twenty pound for twelves they range from two pound for fifty odd quid . |
| 4 | It was completely anarchic , they could have been fighting for anything , cheaper teabags for all they cared , half of them . |
| 5 | Six months later the advertising agency was taken over by its successful rivals ; two months after that they were both incorporated in De Chavigny ( Advertising ) , a new company with offices in London , Paris , Zurich , Milan and New York , registered in the Balearic Islands , and with sole responsibility for the marketing of all de Chavigny products and investments , from steel to hotels and property , world-wide . |
| 6 | She could n't just leave Steve in the lurch after all they had done to get the business together . |
| 7 | But what if they were obliged to seek that elusive spring for the good of those they 'd orphaned and anguished ? |
| 8 | On the cross country day the riders wear practical clothing for the job in hand , but either side of that they 'll wear an outfit like Jimmy Cricket 's and go show jumping in a jacket . |
| 9 | This gives notice to the other side of all they should know . |
| 10 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 11 | They decided , with a wild mixture of folly and idealism , that in the spring of 1795 they would set sail from England to establish an ideal community in America , and in the meantime would gather recruits for the scheme and earn money for it by writing . |
| 12 | In the spring of 1942 they carried out the most effective sabotage raid of modern times , destroying the St Nazaire ( French coast ) battleship dock and preventing the Tirpitz — the most powerful battleship then afloat — from moving to this possible base for raids on American troop and weapon convoys . |
| 13 | In the spring of 1990 they financed to an ultimate cost of $153.1 million the purchase of the Pierre Matisse inventory with dealers Acquavella Modern Art . |
| 14 | In a review of Hearsay-II they write : |
| 15 | Once they get wind of that they 'll have me in there like a shot — And me hands are getting worse . |
| 16 | Erm let me make a few announcements erm firstly Longmans the publishers are producing a large and they hope definitive dictionary of the English language and in aid of this they have asked various universities to produce examples , recorded examples of academic monologue and we 've agreed to cooperate and that is what this little piece of electronic wizardry is in aid of in case you were wondering . |
| 17 | Damory and Audley , the husbands of the other two co-heiresses , were vulnerable to Despenser 's expansionism and in the early months of 1321 they and the other marchers turned to Lancaster for help . |
| 18 | Lagging in the opinion-poll ratings in the early months of 1990 they seized upon the Anti-Poll Tax campaign as a means of once more attacking the Labour Party . |
| 19 | It might well prove to be all they could do to find their way across the heather to some quiet field or copse-bank like those they had been used to . |
| 20 | In response to the confirmation that extradition was now banned by the constitution , the leaders of the Medellín drug cartel , who called themselves the " Extraditables " , stated in a communiqué released on July 5 that they had decided to disband themselves and the cartel 's military structure and were ending all action against those they had previously considered as enemies . |
| 21 | Langbaurgh is still a key marginal and if the Tories want to form the next Government , it 's seat like these they need to win and to win well . |
| 22 | A confidential study designed to assess the extent of professional abuse , follows investigations in America that showed one in 10 counsellors developed sexual relationships with those they should have been helping . |
| 23 | WHEN Fattorini & Sons , of Birmingham , were commissioned to fashion a trophy for a new competition to be run by the Essex Football Association in 1882 they really went to town . |
| 24 | And then erm the lads in both they had decided they were gon na go on the go slow , but they were told if you go go on the on the go slow system , you 're gon na go home , he said , I 'm not prepared to carry on with that , he said , the manager there , that 's brother that is . |
| 25 | In fact , in some respects at first they did so better than Copernicus 's calculations . |
| 26 | LAIRDS OF ALL THEY SURVEY |
| 27 | In a subsidy assessment of 1554 they estimated their annual income at over £500 : of this some £360 was expended on various charities ( including the salaries of " divers schoolmasters " ) . |
| 28 | The perceptions by leaders of the qualities and values of those they are seeking to influence . |
| 29 | ‘ You are nine years old and you are going to be sent away to a good school , and you must take advantage of all they teach you . |
| 30 | In the absence of markets , the problem is to devise a means whereby state bureaucrats will respond to the preferences of those they are supposed to serve . |