Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my departure they assassinated the President . |
| 2 | Her wonderful speech about the death of an aunt ( ’ It 's my belief they done the old woman in ’ ) is as blissfully funny as anything on the London stage . |
| 3 | Predators may select prey in order of abundance , as does the barn owl , for instance , in which case they preserve the original pattern of equitability , or they may select less abundant prey preferentially , as do most mustelids , in which case they change it . |
| 4 | Either identical particles are fermions , which means that their wavefunction has to change sign under interchange , or they are bosons , in which case they have the even simpler property that their wavefunction is completely unaltered by an interchange . |
| 5 | After their marriage they amalgamated the two operations , and formed the F and B chain . |
| 6 | If you think about the taxation issue , you know , the government in Westminster exercises very stringent controls over what local governments can spend , how much they can borrow , what they spend it on erm if they do n't like it they apply financial sanctions to , to local governments and if they really get up their nose they abolish the local government altogether . |
| 7 | At its conclusion they made the order that all parties accepted to be the appropriate order . |
| 8 | According to her father they discussed the beliefs of the Jehovah 's Witnesses in May or June of this year and she informed him that she was not a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 9 | As each subject may have used more than one of the strategies when evaluating a person , in order to calculate inter-rater reliability two different judges decided individually which strategy they believed the individuals had described . |
| 10 | In their planning they retain the large central school-room , but the provision of classrooms is greater than the norm established by the church schools . |
| 11 | In their turn they wanted the Argonauts to tell them stories of their journeys . |
| 12 | By their combination they prevent the master employing any journeymen they do not approve of , who as they say is not a fair man ; and all journeymen must ask the constable of the shop , for the time being , ( an officer appointed by the combination ) for work before they ask the master . |
| 13 | In the course of their analysis they state the following : |
| 14 | But , by their beauty they feed the sight , yeah . |
| 15 | In their statement they accused the security forces of raiding their seminars and arresting some students , a number of whom were later expelled by the university administration for alleged political activity . |
| 16 | On their way they passed the entrances to other corridors , some with names painted on the walls . |
| 17 | The communiqué declared that in their discussion they noted the " total independence " of each fraternal party and state , and also the " danger of borrowing someone else 's experience without taking into account national peculiarities " . |
| 18 | His fate , as shown by both poet and librettist , is almost foredoomed , and on his struggle they hang the themes of the harsh life of the fishing community , and the power of an indifferent Nature , moulding all men , conformists and rebels alike , to rituals of accommodation . |
| 19 | A man of modest birth might secure this mandate and become the Son of Heaven , or priest-king , but when his descendants displayed a lack of proper reverence for his example they lost the support of Heaven and their dynasty collapsed . |
| 20 | In whatever form they existed the documents continued to be known , for they were mentioned to Anselm by Osbern in 1093 , and examined in the royal court in 1109 in the presence of at least one bishop who had been present also in 1072 . |
| 21 | It 'll be necessary for all of us to go back and look at those very very carefully and to think to what extent they address the kinds of problems that we can actually see developing , the kinds of things which we are fighting our way away from in the statutory services and yet might find that they are growing in an uncontrolled way in the development of the private sector . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that odours do pose a problem for environmental health but to what extent they affect the health of an individual exposed to an odour is difficult to say with any precision . |
| 23 | ‘ You will be vexed to hear that some of the birds said to be in your last package from Sydney were missing : by what I can gather from your list they formed the whole of one of the smaller packages . |