Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | With the tournament due to start in a couple of weeks ' time they would soon be past the point of no return . |
| 5 | After five days ' walking they were obviously all fit and experienced . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | After ten years ' correspondence they venture to meet . |
| 9 | I 've just had a Christmas card from my old healthy friend ; so that 's two years ' service they 've lost for starters . |
| 10 | After four years ' courtship they were married in 1874 — he was 34 , she 33 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In 40 years ' time they 'll say ‘ It was the first one out after the 400th Birthday Issue ’ . |
| 14 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 15 | After a few years ' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Instead of hatchets they have fans and as they pass through the soldiers ' camp they hit the soldiers and say : " There you are dead . " |
| 25 | They allowed the cameras into Kensington palace and Highgrove but in the space of two evenings ' viewing they came perilously close to destroying that magic ingredient that is so essential to the monarchy : its mystique . |