Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hope it 's not that ghost train they keep talking about . ’ |
| 2 | At eleven o'clock that Friday night they arrived in Montrose . |
| 3 | When you take them out of their high rise environment they are highly stressed and lack confidence and self esteem . |
| 4 | In another case example they compare the performance of personal and social care skills by a female AD sufferer , who communicated by gesture , at home and in a day centre . |
| 5 | COMMUTERS who staged a sit-in on a British Rail train they claim is cancelled frequently were ejected by police , and their leader arrested , at a station last night . |
| 6 | And while they recognise the threat of this killer disease they are still faced with the dilemma of physically protecting themselves from it . |
| 7 | On this meagre subsistence allowance they die like flies ’ . |
| 8 | They have no use until the board reaches planing speed , and for novices and light wind sailing they are best removed . |
| 9 | On the other hand , from a different vantage point they might have seen the body without having to go right to the edge . |
| 10 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
| 11 | Bowls of the clear chicken soup they loved were put on the table . |
| 12 | The need for accountability — no matter how much discretion those working in the public sector exercise they will ultimately be accountable for their decisions either to superior officers or to the public through the tribunal systems . |
| 13 | Under the terms of the Compromise , Member States were supposedly given the right to veto decisions affecting their vital national interests ; under the terms of this Maastricht Declaration they effectively renounce that right , thus giving to foreign policy at the outset the same status as that acquired by other areas of policy where the Compromise has gradually been eroded over many years . |
| 14 | From this vantage point they will silently spy on travellers , offering wrong directions if asked and placing obstacles such as stones and logs on the path . |
| 15 | From this vantage point they were to keep up a steady rifle fire on the sepoys advancing over the open ground until they heard the first ringing of the Church bell . |
| 16 | the Tigersharks are one of the most successful clubs of its kind in the country … 20 have qualified for the national championships next month and in sixteen year old Jaime King they have one of the best breastrokers in the world … |
| 17 | It 's safe to say that in a few years time they will be playing Las Vegas . ’ |
| 18 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 19 | ‘ Do you realize , Charles , that if these Labour Johnnies go and slap on this gift tax they 're talking about , crimes like young Nigel Steen 's wo n't be worth committing . ’ |
| 20 | Under tax and social security law they are normally regarded as dependent employees , but under labour law most are regarded as self-employed . |
| 21 | There , individual humming-birds whose weight has decreased to 3 — 3.5 g stop for periods of a week or two ; after they have put on about 1.5 — 2 g weight they then move on again . |
| 22 | This new Social Studies Syllabus they are designing seems a great improvement over the old History and Geography ones . |
| 23 | What about a fried egg sandwich they 're the ones ! |
| 24 | Despite this age difference they fell in love , and five years ago got married . |
| 25 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 26 | They had me brushing out post-holes on some rubbish dump they said was a castle . |
| 27 | corpus , British corpus corporation they want to get have so many millions of spoken words |
| 28 | Even though glowing reports of fund raising efforts will have some public relations spin-off they are unlikely to overcome any serious doubts the local community might have about the school . |
| 29 | When lifted and placed against a transparent plastic sheet they would show up the tiniest particle . |
| 30 | Although the plans have been welcomed by the CBI and the British Road Federation they are likely to raise a storm of protest from residents and local authorities directly affected and from conservation groups already concerned at the likely impact of the Channel Tunnel and its rail links with London . |