Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | These blooming ears they make more trouble than they 're wor , erm , than they 're worth ! |
2 | For Fernando Botero they are omnipotent and corpulent ; for Bernhard Heisig they are wild and aggressive , while for Rolf Szymanski they represent spiritual energy . |
3 | Popular at home ( the Duke of Edinburgh recently bought one ) , for foreigners they offer cheap chic : a cab dismissed after ten years ' service sells for around £1,500 ( $1,250 ) . |
4 | In drawing up their lists they take great care to achieve a balance that reflects the diversity of the electorate 's concerns . |
5 | The counsel told the court : ‘ In Patel 's car they had loud music on and there was a certain amount of laughing going on . |
6 | up in Wisbech they love that sort of thing . |
7 | Meanwhile the indefatigable Joanna Castle is taking yet another group of children around part of her downlands on the Ridgeway , where the calves they met last year are now only a year away from being next year 's Sunday roast |
8 | Friday they had fried egg |
9 | ESSAY 7 — ; ‘ Their motives for social reform were far from benevolent , but in practice they created embryonic welfare states . ’ |
10 | Japan this cou did this country er good , even though they bombed er Pearl Harbour they did this country a good a good what 's it shall we say |
11 | In some respects they use new language and embody in a formal text rules that have not been specified in that way before ; this has indeed been the way the laws of war have developed for 150 years . |
12 | Pitched tail into the wind they offer good stability as long as the side walls are not too high |
13 | Once behind their peers they need individual attention to improve their reading . |
14 | The French government also announced that it would pay more than £5 million compensation to French fishermen for half the losses they reported last month as a result of falling prices . |
15 | By marriage they inherited more land and a mansion on the banks of the River Ayr at Stair , from which they took their title . |
16 | After the reports some political worthies spew out the same old phrases they parroted last time the natives grew restless somewhere . |
17 | He had no ticket and she had a Season , and while he stood in line at the window they missed one train and she rolled her head and her eyes and seemed to think it a joke and when the train came there was one thought only in Millet 's mind . |
18 | When they reached the Ferry Beach at New Passage they made all speed to the hospital and to the ‘ dead house ’ , which held seven coffins . |
19 | The names given to these pools give a hint of the variety of the bacteria and the splendour of the effects they produce Emerald Pool , Sulphur Cauldron , Beryl Spring , Firehole Falls , Morning Glory Pool and — a particularly rich one with several species of bacteria — Artists ' Paintpots . |
20 | It is not merely the gracious bow they give each other before they begin , nor the even more gracious one when she submits to the prince , sinking to the ground with head bent low . |
21 | When world leaders sit down to dinner at home they prefer simple fare , according to the people who cook for them . |
22 | In presenting it direct to the kings of Benin they showed good understanding . |
23 | The CML also argued that solicitors should make annual returns on the number of conveyancing transactions they completed each year . |
24 | In the north of England they have New Year 's Day but they do n't in the south in England , they might do now . |
25 | If they were of a kindly nature they stayed that way , if they were narrow , tactless , or big-headed they stayed that way . |
26 | They refer to the mines being set up by some Londoners and others " … of which nature they conceive this Copper worke to be , but to spend a farr greater proportion of fewell and therefore more odious , the redress wherof we leave to your honbl consideration . " |
27 | For a moment they caught each other 's eye . |
28 | For a moment they faced each other , frozen in hostility . |
29 | Taunton Vale , the Sun Life West League champions , made the long journey north to meet Brooklands with high hopes of regaining the National League place they lost last season . |
30 | But a lot of our client 's finance sections , do n't see the difference between a big and a little job they see some pigeon holes in their spreadsheet and they want to put something in there . |