Example sentences of "[pron] they [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was genuine , by which they meant she paid her bills in good time , and employed union labour . |
| 2 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the survey did not ask them if they sold the products about which they said they had received insufficient training . |
| 4 | They sued the well-known actress Constance Collier for the £16 9s 3d which they said she owed them for the flowers which her maid had ordered by telephone to be delivered to the Savoy Theatre . |
| 5 | Spoiling his fine Lace Coat , which they told him came out of the Treasury " . |
| 6 | Both the head and the educational psychologist stressed the positive value of Cedars and the likely problems for Balbinder if he stayed on at his present school , which they told her did not have the expertise to cope with his needs . |
| 7 | I then did a physical which they made me run a mile and a half , did press ups , sit ups , which I passed . |
| 8 | Parents and families in the reception areas were shocked by what they saw and heard , incredulous that they could until then have been ignorant of the deprivation within a society which they thought they knew well enough . |
| 9 | The accused would not be present , and misunderstandings sometimes arose between judge and counsel , or between counsel and client , resulting in the accused often receiving a sentence which they thought they had not bargained for . |
| 10 | They have not been sufficiently sensitive to the fact that the message received may differ substantially from that which they imagined they had delivered . |
| 11 | Angela Flowers at the AIA ( which they insisted I called it ) opened to quite a lot of critical acclaim which really annoyed the association . |
| 12 | From a functionalist perspective , mental processes are inferred processes — they gain their status in our theoretical base not as a result of being directly observed or experienced , but from the way in which they enable us to understand and explain human behaviour . |
| 13 | The frequency with which they make them varies . |
| 14 | But other local prisons which they examined they condemned as imposing ‘ inhuman and degrading ’ punishment upon their inmates . |
| 15 | Where self-confidence is concerned , although most groups of men reckon it 's a quality women value , there are significant differences in the extent to which they believe they possess it . |
| 16 | Police even found he had hidden a piece of metal , which they believe he planned to file into a knife , hidden in the sole of his shoe . |
| 17 | Thirdly , have the Government forgotten that , in the preamble to the treaty of Rome , which they say they support , there is a commitment to the constant improvement in living and working conditions of the people of Europe ? |
| 18 | It is essential to appreciate that when religious people show bigotry , intolerance , narrow-mindedness , violence and all other such forms of evil , they are in fact betraying the religion which they say they uphold . |
| 19 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |
| 20 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 21 | With a great part of the matters with which they dealt we have not much concern . |
| 22 | Disenfranchisement takes place in a second , procedural , sense , by virtue of the almost total absence of opportunities for ordinary people to take part in , and effectively contribute to the decision-making process at whatever level , in the outcome of which they feel they have an interest . |
| 23 | My Lords , I have had the advantage of reading in draft the speeches of my noble and learned friends , Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Browne-Wilkinson , and for the reasons which they give I agree that the appeal should be allowed and the questions answered in the way in which my noble and learned friend , Lord Keith of Kinkel , proposes . |
| 24 | He told me he sometimes hated his face , hated his body because of the ease with which they helped him to dominate others . |
| 25 | Biggest mistake made : ‘ People have no idea of their own size , they dress for who they think they look like . ’ |
| 26 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 27 | Or something they thought he had . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't have to look too far back in there when we started this whole process , four or five years of throwing it all up in the air to say that I felt every pupil could comment in some way , something that they had enjoyed , something they felt they 'd been successful at , something they felt they found difficult , something that had pleased them , surely every child could comment on wo , if it 's just one of those things |
| 29 | I do n't have to look too far back in there when we started this whole process , four or five years of throwing it all up in the air to say that I felt every pupil could comment in some way , something that they had enjoyed , something they felt they 'd been successful at , something they felt they found difficult , something that had pleased them , surely every child could comment on wo , if it 's just one of those things |
| 30 | That 's just something they tell you to keep control over you . |