Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [noun] they " in BNC.

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1 No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that .
2 Their bosses are often bright but similarly inexperienced 29-year-old vice presidents with wardrobes from Brooks Brothers and so little credit training they would have trouble with a simple retail installment loan .
3 At eleven o'clock that Friday night they arrived in Montrose .
4 My guess is that they meant to come back , only with so much police activity they did n't like to risk it . ’
5 In somewhat better weather conditions they climbed the five-mile drove-road to the lofty Tushielaw pass , and down to Tushielaw itself , with its bridge across Ettrick , making good time , although the burns and streams were running high and making fording a problem in places .
6 ‘ Hope it 's not that ghost train they keep talking about . ’
7 Indeed , with generally low staffing levels they are avid users of press releases , articles and any other old junk you can throw their way .
8 And when he pointed out that these were Irish , not British Trade unions they were talking about , it was sadly admitted that the English disease had poisoned the minds of many impressionable Irish trade unionists and that it would of course take time entirely to eradicate malign English influences from the land of Saints and Scholars .
9 ‘ Most of them have never held anything more dangerous than a knife and fork before but after just nine hours training they are doing really well , ’ he said .
10 However , if they are put into more concentrated salt solutions they shrink .
11 Thereafter long term pensions they are payable erm at whatever rate you provided for .
12 While history teachers would wish to eschew the more brash sales methods they may nevertheless welcome some guidance on appropriate methods and strategies for promoting their subject .
13 Like other city institutions they grew fat on the back of the eighties boom .
14 After nearly seven hours deliberation they 've so far failed to reach a unanimous verdict .
15 Now these counting numbers they 're okay are n't they you know where you are with those no problem .
16 After another two-hour session on the now freezing parade ground they were released for supper .
17 Economic reform has so far meant that Poles can gaze in wonderment at now well-stocked meat stalls they have no money to buy from .
18 The most notable household items they had thought to bring with them were evidently ‘ some old Prints ’ , and almost at once Joseph Cottle was called upon to supply further essentials , including a kettle , a pair of candlesticks , a tin dustpan , a cheese toaster , two large tin spoons , a keg of porter , and a Bible .
19 The technology does not create the almost Utopian working conditions they describe , and people 's work tasks and conditions are not so very different in continuous-process industries as compared to earlier technologies .
20 We do n't really know a lot about how much sediment load they 've been carrying because we have been measuring the amount of material being carried by Sussex rivers for the last decade to two decades , so our level of information is very , very low .
21 Do n't try to counsel somebody and tell them how much income support they 're going to get .
22 If we go round the same group and ask them how much management training they 've had , we 'd be lucky if we could dredge up fifty weeks .
23 I do n't know how much machine time they would need on a daily basis , but if it 's just for updating files , I ca n't imagine it being very extensive .
24 It was nothing to do with Dorrainge at all ; Lugh would make the decisions about where they pitched camp and how much bear meat they brought .
25 Their working contexts impose certain limits on what they are able to do ; for example , on how many journalists they can employ and on how much news space they have on the paper .
26 Such factors include their own personal characteristics , their social and political background , which newspapers they read , how much television news they watched , whether they watched television news on a particular day , and even whether they watched BBC or ITV on a particular day .
27 Once personal circumstances were taken into account , people 's information levels were influenced primarily by how much television news they watched while their swings of political preferences were influenced primarily by which newspaper they read ( Chapters 7 and 8 ) .
28 The Masters event in Eastbourne brought together the top 24 from the circuit ( determined by how many circuit points they had accumulated ) as competition intensified and world computer points were not to be contested .
29 together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust .
30 The Chief State pathologist , Professor Jan Botha , could not determine just how many stab wounds they had suffered — he said he lost count .
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