Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the one chance that members of the Ninety-Six club have each year to drive their classic cars the way they were intended … hard and fast . |
| 2 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 3 | Enthusiastic supporters claimed that the movement gave to ‘ the Free Churches a unity they have never had before ’ although this same observer recognized that it was ‘ the Establishment that lies at the foundation of our contention ’ . |
| 4 | The three men got away with six times the amount they expected from the raid on a West Auckland Post Office . |
| 5 | But the makers of the Jolly Roger ales believe they can find customers for the 100 barrels a week they soon hope to produce . |
| 6 | But worst of all these tactical disabilities was the flanking fire that was crippling their frontal assaults the moment they debouched into open ground . |
| 7 | And indeed , surfacing again at South Kensington , some atavistic instinct for the lie of the land took them directly to the street in which Louise had had an office , fifteen years or so ago , and where two or three times a year they had met for a meal . |
| 8 | Commander Churchill-Coleman said : ‘ As always with the Provisional IRA when they commit these acts the information they gave was erroneous . |
| 9 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 10 | The two planned by-elections gave the Protestant Unionists the opportunity they needed to maintain the momentum of their electoral challenge . |
| 11 | Nothing threatens the chances of Alton Bass finishing in touch with the top of Hampshire League division one more than a punishing programme of three matches a week they need to complete in order to catch up on their fixture backing . |
| 12 | We have a high level of expertise to give these children the education they need . |
| 13 | For a minority of educated , ambitious women the choice they were forced to make between marriage and work was an agonising one . |
| 14 | However , it seems we share a common purpose — to point out to our rebellious relatives the grief they are causing their families . |
| 15 | If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments . |
| 16 | want you know the the key thing is to discover what how much work a week you know how many hours a week they think it 's going to take now that 's |
| 17 | Five thousand francs a kilo they were fetching today , and a week later in London shops 12s. 6d. each for little tiny ones . |
| 18 | Turkey , incidentally , just for pig-iron and incorrigible spite , look like ten times the side they were at Lansdowne , just when we need them to be sullen , depressed , and cruising for a bruising . |
| 19 | Without this provision , producers would constantly have to recall and modify older products every time they introduced a safety improvement . |
| 20 | He would cover Scotland in a sea of flames , and teach those traitors a lesson they would never forget . |
| 21 | It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM . |
| 22 | James Price 's words eased the immediate worries of the villagers but for many of the older ones the world they had always known had come to an end . |
| 23 | For at least fifteen hours a day they get us from A to B and take our body weight . |
| 24 | For things they want daily or several times a week they go to the local village , or in a town they go to the local suburban shops , or the ‘ corner ’ shop . |
| 25 | She liked the way it stood , distinct and certain , rising out of the level muddy waste of grass and tarmac that generously surrounded it : a bomb had fallen during the war , on a neighbouring chapel , and the site had been levelled out and was now an unofficial part of the school 's playgrounds The whole area was of a bleak airiness , and a cold wind seemed to blow incessantly upon it , turning the knees and knuckles of the girls pink and blue , and snatching away their obligatory berets the moment they emerged from the school porch . |
| 26 | It 's time to stop supporting Linfield , John , and give the other clubs the credit they deserve . |
| 27 | yes , and I sometimes think that way I know with Ken 's two brothers the way they behaved with wife number one and the way they are with wife number two is a different world . |
| 28 | Since in 1967 no coherent Palestinian movement existed , it was natural that the international community did not accord Palestinian interests the consideration they deserved . |