Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a ghetto they create their own lifestyles and moral values and often express theologies that are anti-Christian as well as anti-human — pelagian , Arminian and gnostic . |
| 2 | Over five centuries they developed their own art and architecture , which were derived from Greek and oriental sources , but adapted to their needs in Italy . |
| 3 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 4 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 5 | At the point when abolitionists turned to making the emancipation issue a mass campaign they published their own news-sheet , the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter ( 1825–30 ) , followed by the Anti-Slavery Reporter ( 1830–3 ) and thereafter the mark of an antislavery organisation with claims to national standing was a paper of this kind . |
| 6 | And some places that erm I know that in some places they have their own local way of speaking and then they speak a different way to other folk . |
| 7 | What was happening in Europe whilst this was happening cos that 's after the war they had their own development and they developed a different type of machine called a flat machine . |
| 8 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 9 | And when he gets the other stuff they give you that big bloody beaker full of it ! |
| 10 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 11 | One day they handed us some chipped potatoes , and there was enough oil on them to boil another portion . |
| 12 | The Australian Aborigines make a clear distinction between the works of art they consider their own and those they claim go back to the time of their creation , popularly referred to as the Dreamtime in all literature about Aborigines . |
| 13 | yeah , and they make their own , he 's got all the machinery and all , all the people they make their own pumps |
| 14 | Mr Major and his Secretary of State Ian Lang mounted a robust defence of the Union , deliberately challenging the opposition parties on ground they consider their own . |
| 15 | Coverage of all kinds can be both favourable and unfavourable — no matter whether politicians are in government or in opposition — and politicians themselves must bear the prime responsibility for ensuring that when they do get access to the media they present their own case well . |
| 16 | So surely if the government er , have , ca n't have the money they cut their own throat ? |
| 17 | Echo and The Bunnymen : The Arena , Middlesbrough THE last time Echo & The Bunnymen graced a stage in Middlesbrough they brought their own detective story with them entitled The Strange Case of the Disappearing Audience . |
| 18 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 19 | They are scarcely adult , some men : they wish women to understand them , and to that end they tell them all their secrets ; and then , when they are properly understood , they hate their women for understanding them . |
| 20 | You bring your children up , you do your best , but in the end they go their own way . ’ |
| 21 | Brian Jacksons wrote eloquently about the still frequently thwarted aspirations of young fathers today to be different from the invisible or authoritarian men they remember their own fathers as having been . |
| 22 | During the ensuing eight centuries they recognised , at different times , the suzerainty of the Byzantine , Habsburg and Serbian emperors , the King of Hungary , the Doge of Venice and the Sultan of Turkey , but in the main they kept their own internal self-government . |
| 23 | FOUR young pigs set sail for the Falklands last month and to make sure they did n't get hungry on the way they took their own feed with them . |
| 24 | Funny way they get them all the way out to the other side ! |
| 25 | Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own . |
| 26 | Acute peasant disappointment at being made to pay for land they considered their own led to widespread and in places violent protest between March and May 1861 . |
| 27 | For a few terrible moments they saw it all , and cowered , covering their eyes . |
| 28 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 29 | After the painting they used their own products to furnish the house , surrounding the old ranges and fireplaces , and covering the floor of the glazed backyard with tartan ceramic tiles . |
| 30 | To do with her whatever nerves they cause them that cause itching . |