Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone was so kind and helpful when Copper had his accident , although they all thought I was mad , and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them all , especially Cooper 's vet . |
| 2 | Woodacon has sponsored the team for the last four years and would like to take this opportunity to wish them all well for the future . |
| 3 | It is well acted and well directed by Patrick Dromgoole and if you want three acts of vicious infighting , grisly humour , sadism , transvestism and incest this play contains them all . |
| 4 | Teachers felt that this text offered them many opportunities for the development of the understanding of parental roles and it was thought to be a book from which all sorts of related topic work could be derived . |
| 5 | In 1907 , however , the Bondholders had a great deal more at risk than in the 1960 's and the 2:1 arrangement gave them some protection and rights over their own investments and the Club 's destiny . |
| 6 | But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the essential social situation remains they same — they are marginal and disposable as workers , they are isolated , even more than women with young children who do n't work , for they do n't have time to meet others in parks and playgrounds , and they have the stress of simultaneously minding children and working . |
| 8 | Duck and Frog search for their friends and it takes quite some time to find them all . |
| 9 | No ordinary person wants them any more , though they will for years to come provide talking points for the chattering classes . |
| 10 | It would take too much space to list them all , but I will just mention one by name and that is Miss Phyllis Ratcliffe . |
| 11 | The two acts which Oedipus committed , killing his father and having sexual intercourse with his mother , are forbidden in human societies because there is a strong desire to perform them both . |
| 12 | Almost at once the National Anthem summoned them both to their feet , but Mark responded sluggishly . |
| 13 | Here , they find the light they need in the spring , but as the sun gets hotter the growth of surrounding vegetation gives them some welcome shade . |
| 14 | But Horsley did not seem to see things like that , and he had cheered them up mightily with a little speech congratulating them all and insisting ‘ the team ’ must stay together . |
| 15 | In the second-half of the Second Test they recaptured their World Cup form and it will take a very good side to beat them this summer . |
| 16 | The sound of heavy boots sliding down he crumbling bank made them all glance up . |
| 17 | These three objectives reflect aspects of the production problem and , ideally , the manufacturer would like a feasible solution maximising them all . |
| 18 | The thunderous retort deafened them both momentarily . |
| 19 | The unexpected news affected them all in some way , but it would have the greatest impact upon Seb 's life . |
| 20 | So many Tory politicians have mysteriously ‘ retired ’ over the past 13 years that there must be one massive , undisclosed scandal linking them all , and involving BT shares , Jack Ruby 's death , Marilyn Monroe , and the fleshy globes of a Bermondsey boy scout called Hilda . |
| 21 | A cracked shout arrested them both . |
| 22 | She giggled with sheer delight to handle them all , so little , so pretty , the cats so catlike , the kangaroos ( with a baby in the mother 's pouch ) so expressive of the basically humorous nature of kangaroos . |
| 23 | And , as a fitting tribute to the white heat of technology ( and slaying dragons ) we proudly present a Red-Hot Computer-style Offer to end them all . |
| 24 | Take out one loan to cover them all . |
| 25 | ‘ The point I was making was that the parity of fear within the Catholic and Protestant communities might help in a perverse way to make them both recognise the importance of living beside each other and for the killings to stop . ’ |
| 26 | The episode shows , as Whyte says , ‘ not a clash between Church and State but a shifting consensus involving them both , ( 1980:399 ) . |
| 27 | Sheer surprise brought them both down , winding them temporarily . |
| 28 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
| 29 | I loved her and I loved Sam and that bitch killed them both ! ’ |
| 30 | If you decide to go for a low-voltage set-up , work out how many lights you need and where they will be sited , so you can buy enough cable to connect them all up . |