Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hope it 's not that ghost train they keep talking about . ’ |
| 2 | At eleven o'clock that Friday night they arrived in Montrose . |
| 3 | Saltburn are confident that in new professional Mukund Parmar they have a player who will get them lots of runs and wickets . |
| 4 | A delegation of Indian software producers who came to Britain last year received only three responses from 190 British computer firms they visited . |
| 5 | In another case example they compare the performance of personal and social care skills by a female AD sufferer , who communicated by gesture , at home and in a day centre . |
| 6 | COMMUTERS who staged a sit-in on a British Rail train they claim is cancelled frequently were ejected by police , and their leader arrested , at a station last night . |
| 7 | The Faithful Foundation has declined to explain or clarify its statement.But if it was designed to wrong foot protesters they 've failed . |
| 8 | On this meagre subsistence allowance they die like flies ’ . |
| 9 | Many of the problems are likely to arise when quarrying companies activate the large number of old mining permissions they own without basic environmental safeguards attached . |
| 10 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
| 11 | Bowls of the clear chicken soup they loved were put on the table . |
| 12 | In desperation your mother gave me some home movies they 'd made over the years , and I watched a chubby five-year-old with a cheeky grin and eyes like pansies . |
| 13 | Largely because of their native climate and sparse grazing , they are small animals standing perhaps 100–110cm at the withers on the islands and weighing 300–350kg , but in improved mainland environments they reach 116–122cm and can weigh 50 per cent more than the island cattle . |
| 14 | Oh I 've not thought about , I tell you I looked in British Home Stores they had these |
| 15 | the Tigersharks are one of the most successful clubs of its kind in the country … 20 have qualified for the national championships next month and in sixteen year old Jaime King they have one of the best breastrokers in the world … |
| 16 | Their aerial photographs he subjected to destructive scrutiny , the light crop lines they detected under the unbroken fields he dated several centuries later than the sacking of Aurae Phiala , the dark crop marks emerging so strongly in contrast he refused to consider as early Roman military lines , but set well back into pre-Roman settlement . |
| 17 | Shouldering their empty bait bags they jumped on their bikes and after a cheerful ‘ Watch out for mooring ropes , ’ from Yanto , they cycled off in opposite directions . |
| 18 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |
| 19 | Despite this age difference they fell in love , and five years ago got married . |
| 20 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 21 | They had me brushing out post-holes on some rubbish dump they said was a castle . |
| 22 | corpus , British corpus corporation they want to get have so many millions of spoken words |
| 23 | I 'm not sure because erm Martin has a number of things that come out of his er salary , there 's erm his pension of course and erm there , there 's some insurance scheme they run at work as well . |
| 24 | From the 1968 Health Services and Public Health Act they have had the powers to promote the welfare of old people . |
| 25 | And you just hammer them the poor old cloth workers they 've got used to me now , they had an awful fit at the time , you ca n't do that . |
| 26 | In the old Tarzan movies they used drums , and they also used natives and the warriors carried a stick , they called it a forked stick and it looks like the assembly might need a new set of forked sticks |
| 27 | If they want the free bus passes they 've got to something done about themselves and . |
| 28 | In England and Wales they 'll have to pay up to double the Poll Tax on any empty farm cottages they own , although farmers in Scotland are going to be exempt from this . |
| 29 | Well I say if you scout through this book Mick they 've got an |
| 30 | On Thursday and Friday nights and Sunday lunchtimes you can enjoy Malaysian or Indonesian curries , perhaps a Cambodian-style casserole of sweet potatoes , pumpkins and yams with fresh coriander , or the very popular macrobiotic platter , an assortment of tastes sometimes including arame , one of 10 different sea vegetables they prepare . |