Example sentences of "[adj] [unc] [noun] 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 | And er you know , the different er things they can tell you just how l old a thing th And then I think they were the sort of the fashion Er you know they were first in the fashion trade to introduce these sort of things you know . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So many of these er Brian they 're trying to impose their |
| 6 | Reduction in capital expenditure er broadly offset the reduced erm income from partnerships and associates which is basically our Lazard income , that 's so the very good er contribution we got in ninety one reflected the nineteen ninety er profits they were earning . |
| 7 | to my honourable friend because not only are these er large er particularly the big six er centres of accountancy power pretty well uncontrolled , they dominate the institutions that are meant to regulate them er but when it comes to international er affairs they do n't exchange information with each other . |
| 8 | The agonies of the north , both for the local populace and for the king and realm , were by no means at an end yet , but in Edward II 's reign they reached a scale unapproached before and not exceeded afterwards . |
| 9 | It is only viewed in retrospect that such dual loyalties seem strange : in the context of Edward IV 's reign they made very good sense . |
| 10 | It is only viewed in retrospect that such dual loyalties seem strange : in the context of Edward IV 's reign they made very good sense . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | And we do hope that the Chief Officers of this Authority will show the commendable st restraint they normally have . |
| 13 | They had sort of er er rather pretty blue er suits they used to wear with white shirts and red ties . |
| 14 | It 's for a new er dictionary they 're bringing out about erm English spoken language |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Erm very attractive er locos they were and extremely successful , they were the mainstay of er the er er line , and er outperformed many of the Robinson four six Os er that were built subsequently . |