Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic circumstances have been poor and for the chemical industry they were absolutely diabolical by the middle of the past year . |
| 2 | She never knew them , she pined for them and for the better life they might have had together . |
| 3 | We believe the police in general should be commended for the professional way they conducted themselves in the face of provocation . ’ |
| 4 | After some time of searching for the right facility they have had to go back and build something anew . |
| 5 | They were awake before dawn and for the second time they heard the chorus begin as a trickle and grow swiftly to a torrent as the birds welcomed the great Trumpeter . |
| 6 | For the second week they 'll be whisked off to lively Barbados , where they will stay at the Discovery Bay Hotel on the fashionable West Coast of the island . |
| 7 | They arrange crews , sailing one per three beginners for the first week ; for the second week they coach on request . |
| 8 | I 've found that after a few years experience you can tell , you just can you know ; which even if you 've got a group with two very imaginative kids in , who can play instruments really well , and the others sit back and let them do it , then you might give the difference between two out of ten and nine out of ten for effort in the same group , but for the overall effect they would then get the same mark for the group thing . |
| 9 | For individuals , it took immense determination , on the part of an Ada Nield Chew or Hannah Mitchell , for example , to change the pattern of their lives and make time for the political work they held dear . |
| 10 | When Chuck crossed to the cook tent , carrying his rifle for the early start they planned for the final day , his father was already sitting at a table in the open , sipping a steaming mug of black coffee . |
| 11 | They 're lab chimps , and before they were acquired for the Jenner Clinic they were part of a language project . |
| 12 | Following a survey for the Widdicombe Committee , Professor Miller concluded that ‘ very few respondents declared a willingness to vote in a local election for the major party they opposed nationally ’ ( Widdicombe 1986 , III : 106 ) . |
| 13 | As for the financial crisis they had gone through , of which she suspected Greg was the root cause , that was never spoken of at all . |
| 14 | There was the mortgage to pay and the electricity bill for the central heating they could n't economise there because of Debbie needing warmth — and the hire-purchase on the bedroom suite to find . |
| 15 | You had to have meals-on-wheels because that was what there was , and particularly the meals-on-wheels study we did in Islington [ Barker & Noble , 1983 ] which clearly indicated that half the recipients desperately needed meals-on-wheels , but they needed a lot of other things as well , and that for the other half they were inappropriate anyway . |
| 16 | For the first mile they were brilliant , very comfortable , but then the Big Bs struck . |
| 17 | Last August the insurers offered to pay them £500 a day for the first week they were detained , and then £300 a day for each subsequent week . |
| 18 | It may be some months or even years later when , for the first time they over-correct from a practice stall , they experience a substantial reduction in ‘ g ’ loading . |
| 19 | For the first time they had a doctor with them , Malcolm Pleydell , who had been posted to L Detachment and had completed his parachute training . |
| 20 | For the first time they were not photographed together for the cards . |
| 21 | Rural living standards in most areas had improved significantly in the 1980s , but last year for the first time they fell back . |
| 22 | For the first time they struck her — both letter and box — as symbols of escape . |
| 23 | The motorbike slowed so that for the first time they could see the outlines of the rider , a derelict farmhouse appeared in its headlight beam and the car behind them started flashing its lights . |
| 24 | They were , nevertheless , dramatic or rather traumatic , because for the first time they came into deliberate and militant confrontation with the forces of tradition , conservatism and especially religion . |
| 25 | It 's been a four-hour journey for Fiona and David , now for the first time they meet the competition and hopefully make new friends . |
| 26 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 27 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 28 | For the first time they will know what the fans think . ’ |
| 29 | For some years now Yamaha have played a major role in digital sound processors and for the new season they have produced several new models . |
| 30 | He was now approaching thirty years old and , as the year turned , he wanted desperately to get an audition for the new movie they were all talking about , in which the star was to be a young man playing opposite an older woman . |