Example sentences of "[adj] [no cls] [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
| 2 | The girls , meanwhile , will have raced home , had a bath , washed and dried their hair , to return in either a ) the same quilted jacket , Alice band , and sensible skirt/shoes combination they were wearing before , plus a single string of pearls , or b ) an incredibly short and low-cut minidress , lip-gloss and handmade high heels . |
| 3 | But the men had to balance it up by , what they called chits , tha that came on every garment and how much er money they were getting for it . |
| 4 | And you know they have a very distinctive characteristic do n't they , they have round faces and they 're short and they have slightly slanting eyes , etcetera etcetera , well these children have very marked physical erm appearance they 're fair haired and blue eyed the reason for that is that this substance venial alanine is responsible for the production of pigment , so if that 's interfered with they 're going to be fair haired and blue eyed , they get eczema a lot , they have small heads and they have very widely spaced teeth , sorry down a bit , is that what you want ? |
| 5 | And we do hope that the Chief Officers of this Authority will show the commendable st restraint they normally have . |
| 6 | It 's for a new er dictionary they 're bringing out about erm English spoken language |
| 7 | It 's , it 's a bit like in Northern Ireland where you 've got your the religious erm influence they 've got somebody like Ian Paisley the strength of that man and his group |
| 8 | they do n't talk so the language changes all the time , and each time they bring out a new d dictionary they try to say erm this is the way people talk , and bring it up to date so that we 're not all talking in the past . |