Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention being to keep them at Georgia Griffiths house … even though she made no real profit from the deal . |
| 2 | One fella were told they did his erm summat to his engine and it blew up did n't it ? |
| 3 | DON T BE MISLED , whether Socialists run in their true colours , or in an underhand way as ‘ Labour ’ or ‘ Cooperative ’ , they are out for the same end , and your only remedy is to VOTE THEM DOWN . |
| 4 | Where more than one remedy is required they can be given in sequence , one at a time , a certain length of time apart — one every ten minutes , for example , or one every half hour . |
| 5 | Since then , Nuclear Electric is achieving them . |
| 6 | Hodson-Smith has sent papers detailing his fears to the three stations involved and Nuclear Electric is studying them , although it emphasises that the software has not yet been fully integrated into the control system for the reactors . |
| 7 | To discuss these , or any other religious forces , in isolation is to misunderstand them . |
| 8 | If they do anything which affects anybody , your only recourse is to take them to a High Court for a judicial review . ’ |
| 9 | They say a set of gear is costing them five hundred and ninety five pounds . |
| 10 | ‘ They have suffered so many times in recent years and some think disappointment is staring them in the face again . |
| 11 | ‘ The aim of the programme is to assist them to improve the quality of the work they do and raise efficiency by giving them the task of analysing their own and their colleagues ’ activities and producing improvements . |
| 12 | The quickest way to find out people 's attitudes towards relocation is to ask them . |
| 13 | Our current intention is to keep them available as long as there is a source of supply . |
| 14 | My ambition is to help them win the Cup or the League — or both . ’ |
| 15 | Erm the the er Professor Lock was saying well you know the way you get your footloose industry is to present them with an absolute guarantee of planning permission . |
| 16 | ‘ The key is train them properly from the word go , ’ Steve emphasised . |
| 17 | When the snake 's mouth is shut they lie flat , but when the jaws are opened wide to strike , the two upper teeth that supply the venom are pivoted down through about go degrees , so that they are at right angles to the top of the head . |
| 18 | These are still early days in which , it might be argued , the professional choirs and vocal consorts in England are engaged in a quest to discover how much ‘ interpretation ’ the various early-music repertories actually require when a high level of accuracy in tuning and ensemble is guaranteed them . |
| 19 | The obvious alternative is to take them along to your local ‘ paper igloo ’ ( a blue bin like a postbox , usually alongside bottle banks ) for recycling . |
| 20 | Now that is n't easy actually , because you know , the practitioner 's think they know best and they actually quite resent , you know , the young Policy Officer 's coming in and saying let's do it this way , shall we ? |
| 21 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 22 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 23 | The lady who ran Ruane 's office said the dispenser was giving them better coffee , better chocolate , than any time in the last nine years . |
| 24 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 25 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 26 | They found that the swamp was forcing them back and that they could no longer keep even an erratic southward course but were withdrawing towards the east , away from where they believed the Outlaws ' Camp lay . |
| 27 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 28 | And , of course , when a crime was reported they were the ones who had to notify the Parquet in the first place . |
| 29 | What they were doing , the old vixen was walking them higher up into the mountain for safety . |
| 30 | Hume and Kant ( 1724–1804 ) are two towering giants of philosophy and our brief indications of their positions on morality — which must tear them from their systems as a whole — may irritate the knowledgeable , but with the space at my disposal and the particular purpose of supplying background to Part Two of this work , the only alternative was to ignore them altogether . |