Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett and Ranulf finished off the meagre scraps of food they had begged from the kitchen and hurried down . |
| 2 | When they entered the jungle again , the Moi several times spotted banteng , but what few traces of seladang they found proved to be cold trails . |
| 3 | The word seemed to him to describe perfectly the smelly , often damp cakes of earth they were forced to burn since coal supplies had been so reduced by the constant cancellation of goods trains . |
| 4 | However , it is clear that the high levels of stress they reported experiencing did not have disastrous effects on their ability to recall the event . |
| 5 | We begin this chapter , accordingly , by looking at the different types of literary essay it is possible to write , considering first the variety of focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt . |
| 6 | In achieving this end , essays follow certain general patterns of development and direction , which are definable in terms of the focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt . |
| 7 | Many with memories of school retreats that were a matter of being silent and often boring , wonder about the different types of retreat they hear about today . |
| 8 | These figures were produced in support of the employers ' position in the course of a bitter wage dispute ; the weavers claimed that on some types of cloth they could hardly make 4d ( 2p ) a day . |
| 9 | Had they obeyed the accepted rules of warfare they would have stayed somewhere ‘ further down ’ . |
| 10 | It is that same voyage of discovery that the organisers of The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition are hoping the public will experience through the 100 pieces of work they have put on show . |
| 11 | Half-lives of various radionuclides , together with the principal types of radiation they emit , are summarized in table 5.2 . |
| 12 | and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet |
| 13 | What were these Acts of Parliament they spoke of , to do with factories and labour ? |
| 14 | When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month . |
| 15 | African heads of state will in future have to explain the origins of any large sums of money they deposit in Swiss banks . |
| 16 | In the brief moments of respite they get they sometimes wonder , like Champaben , a homeworker ; |
| 17 | After many hours of travelling they passed a sign that read ‘ WE 'LL SOON BE AT PRAIL ’ . |
| 18 | Er every , every employer who has laid people off has mentioned making er strident efforts to er replace people alternative employment , some they already have but , in many cases of course they have not . |
| 19 | Marillion are now looking like the full-scale international merchants of pomp they 've always aimed at being . |
| 20 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
| 21 | The children then dive for them and see how many items of treasure they can catch . |
| 22 | Thus , it is not uncommon to find Comte , Durkheim , Marx , and Weber all described as positivists , even though from many points of view they make strange bedfellows . |
| 23 | Although there are many types of dementia they can generally be defined as involving progressive and irreversible brain failure . |
| 24 | In spite of most people perceiving themselves as planners , the survey reveals that in some of the most important and fundamental areas of life they have not made even the most minimal plans . |
| 25 | These were small victories , but in those days of darkness they gave the High Elves some hope . |
| 26 | And if you wanted ten rolls of wallpaper they 'd paper your room for five shillings . |
| 27 | At the first stages of development they will be asked to take first draft programs into the classroom , maybe even in the form of sub-programs . |
| 28 | Fortunately I had a tide-table with me which played havoc with the original extravagant plans as they had only three days to shoot the 15 minutes of film they needed . |
| 29 | The Russians are so bureaucratic that any gems of intelligence they might cull are lost in a mass of trivial dross . |
| 30 | This might include offering a verbal report to a staff meeting or circulating a short written report , asking pupils to identify any pieces of information they would like brought back from the secondment , or giving a talk to a tutor group . |