Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb base] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And when he gets the other stuff they give you that big bloody beaker full of it ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | yeah , and they make their own , he 's got all the machinery and all , all the people they make their own pumps |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So surely if the government er , have , ca n't have the money they cut their own throat ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You bring your children up , you do your best , but in the end they go their own way . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Funny way they get them all the way out to the other side ! |
| 15 | Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own . |
| 16 | To do with her whatever nerves they cause them that cause itching . |
| 17 | By the time they produce their own young they are solitaries with no older females around to teach them by example . |
| 18 | It 's the in places at street they tell me these days . |