Example sentences of "[pron] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I them place gummed strips onto each side with an overlap of about half an inch , which I press firmly until almost dry . |
| 2 | The men around Nixon who planned the escapade were not elected professional politicians , but mainly " west coast advertising types " concerned only to sell their " product " and not too worried over the means by which they achieved this end . |
| 3 | The directors of these films , tourists in working-class cultures for which they felt little sympathy , saw only what they wanted to see . |
| 4 | The companies of players did not perceive their plays as fixed texts , literary works which they felt some obligation to present accurately . |
| 5 | German software products company SAP AG , Walldorf , and Microsoft Corp have scheduled a press conference in Munich today , at which they are expected to announce ‘ something beyond ’ the agreement to put SAP 's R/2 and R/3 suites up under Windows NT , which they announced this week . |
| 6 | This does indeed seem at first sight to demonstrate that some of people 's most vivid , detailed and enduring memories are precisely the memories they have about situations in which they experienced high levels of emotional arousal . |
| 7 | The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass . |
| 8 | Decisions as to the proportion in which they hold these assets , in other words the nature of their portfolio management , determine how the sector as a whole fulfils the function of allocating the community 's savings to those who wish to borrow . |
| 9 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 10 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 11 | In others , members of the public may be invited to address committees or sub-committees before decisions are reached on topics about which they hold particular views . |
| 12 | Languages vary tremendously in the type of conjunctions they prefer to use as well as the frequency with which they use such items . |
| 13 | What are the circumstances in which they use this word and what are their attitudes to a person thus described ? |
| 14 | The second way in which they use anthropological material we can call ‘ rhetorical ’ . |
| 15 | Some feed more or less directly on sediment , from which they extract edible particles . |
| 16 | And , even more importantly , the Formalists differ radically from the Anglo-Americans on the way in which they relate poetic ambiguity to ordinary language , and it is through this differential function , and not by means of mere conformity and intensification that poetry heightens and enriches ordinary communication . |
| 17 | rational behaviour on the part of investors in which they prefer more wealth to less and are indifferent to whether an increment to their wealth takes the form of an unrealized capital gain or a cash dividend payment . |
| 18 | In exchange for exports of grain they received money with which they purchased manufactured goods and luxury items . |
| 19 | Most people reckon that a healthy housing market ( by which they mean rising prices ) will ensure a healthy economy . |
| 20 | It is worth noting that such important modern choreographers as Kurt Jooss and Martha Graham and the leader of the Dance Theatre of Harlem , George Mitchell , insisted that their dancershave knowledge of some school of classical technique , to which they added other exercises to develop the flexibility of their dancers ' bodies , athletic qualities and an ability to explore more thoroughly the space around them in all its dimensions . |
| 21 | They are daytime hunters , flying with their six legs crooked in front of them to form a tiny basket in which they catch smaller insects . |
| 22 | Huddled behind a clump of trees , several villagers pointed to an anti-aircraft gun mounted on a truck in the valley far below which they said Serbian forces had used to pummel their homes . |
| 23 | She wanted to find out what it was like , Antoinette in the cellar , Madeleine in the big marital bed , their mysterious life in the arms of men , the embrace which the daughter was banned from and which they told endless lies about . |
| 24 | They seemed to work extremely quickly using graining combs , brushes , even feathers to produce finishes in which they took great pride . |
| 25 | But they differ from normal girls in the extent to which they pursue these activities and their inability to desist from them . |
| 26 | They have explored the extent to which they reflected mass aspirations and their role in the political outcome of the revolution . |
| 27 | Insects who feed off , pollinate or whose lives are otherwise associated with these particular plants have a corresponding detection system in the structure of their antennae , through which they perceive specific patterning in the infrared , just as we perceive what we call ‘ visible ’ light , through our eyes . |
| 28 | Some grew to a length of two metres and were armed with immense pincers with which they seized smaller creatures . |
| 29 | Some wore only frilly drawers and black camisoles so you could see their bare thighs on which they wore fancy garters and suspenders . |
| 30 | THE recent attempts made by Hong Kong to have their sevens tournament accepted by the International Board as part of the official international calendar will not have been helped by the travesty to which they reduced this year 's tournament at the weekend . |