Example sentences of "[noun pl] [unc] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting was arranged for ten o'clock ; in their anxiety , they arrived twenty minutes early , and Ernest suggested that for politeness ' sake they should walk up White Horse Lane and back , to kill time . |
| 2 | The limits of critical periods have not been found to be as immutable as was formerly thought , for by manipulating the animals ' experience they can be extended considerably . |
| 3 | The women ended up having to negotiate everything through their husbands , and when they were expected to work for nothing on their husbands ' plots they refused and demanded full payment . |
| 4 | But the Cup finalists ' plight they are one point above a relegation spot means acting manager Malcolm Crosby is considering plunging Bracewell into his side 's battle against relegation . |
| 5 | At parents ' meetings they must be prepared to be blamed by mothers and fathers with unrealistic expectations of their , the teachers ' , and the children 's abilities . |
| 6 | With the tournament due to start in a couple of weeks ' time they would soon be past the point of no return . |
| 7 | After five days ' walking they were obviously all fit and experienced . |
| 8 | After three days ' imprisonment they were convicted of attending an illegal gathering under the terms of Bophuthatswana 's Internal Security Act , fined , and released from custody . |
| 9 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 10 | After ten years ' correspondence they venture to meet . |
| 11 | I 've just had a Christmas card from my old healthy friend ; so that 's two years ' service they 've lost for starters . |
| 12 | After four years ' courtship they were married in 1874 — he was 34 , she 33 . |
| 13 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 14 | In twenty years ' time they will remember their history teacher : his mannerisms , his irony and self-deprecating asides , his friendly interest in each of them . |
| 15 | In 40 years ' time they 'll say ‘ It was the first one out after the 400th Birthday Issue ’ . |
| 16 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 17 | After a few years ' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow . |
| 18 | It is worth considering the French model since , with the introduction of the national core curriculum , there will be far less time in the school day to devote to non-specialist teaching ; and with the new terms and conditions for teachers there may well be many who will want a strict regulation on the number of hours ' work they will put in each day . |
| 19 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 20 | While these sketches tend to be exaggerated at the witnesses ' expense they may provide useful cross-examination material , particularly if you can obtain corroboration from other witnesses . |
| 21 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 22 | In the " Old Rental " of 1682 certain properties were described as " Proper lands " and were " supposed " to be the benefaction of Sir Edmond ; according to the Goldsmiths ' records they were yielding only 56 13 4d a year between 1671 and 1720 , or only a little more than half as much again as the rent receivable two centuries earlier . |
| 23 | It will argue that because of the nature of primary school teachers ' role they have quite specific training requirements and that the current climate of change may well be catalytic . |
| 24 | Erm children 's pensions they would be half the widow 's or widower 's pension and they 're payable for dependant children up to the age of seventeen and for children who are in full time erm higher education and for one child the payment would be actually half the widow 's or the widower 's pension . |
| 25 | Local league officials have stepped in after one of the men 's teams they beat protested : ‘ We were indecently assaulted . ’ |
| 26 | From the pupils ' perspective they are not there to accept passively any offensive action on the part of the teachers merely because they are pupils . |
| 27 | because they were women 's work they were held in a |
| 28 | Collectors ' items they are , you know . ’ |
| 29 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 30 | Er one time the locksmiths had a rise from ni eighteen , twenty to twenty-one a man , it was a big rise but the locksmiths ' union they altered it from to twenty and a half , twenty-one , twenty-one and a half , three rises before you went from a lad to a man 's raise , you know . |