Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] they [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And to tell my friends to be more careful where they discussed other people 's affairs ! |
| 2 | He had but three vessels left and despite urgent pleas from his men — now demoralized again , fretful once they realized another ship was gone — to abandon the voyage and sail back to the Guadalquivir , he pressed on north-westwards , passing through scenery of a wild grandeur and beauty he had never known before . |
| 3 | Well I mean I , I , when I joined in forty nine the , the fire uniform was n't all that much different except they had black helmets instead of yellow , and , and they had rubber boots and they did n't have the leggings we have , and so on now , but the walking-out uniform was the old army battledress died blue , that 's all it was . |
| 4 | So that I the last time I was down there and I they opened up the door to go and get some cos they had hundreds in there . |
| 5 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 6 | While there was certainly an increase in the output of these businesses in the prosperous years of the late 1970s it is doubtful if they did more than keep pace with the fast growth rate for the manufacturing sector as a whole , estimated by the World Bank to be 12 per cent from 1970 to 1982 . |
| 7 | I VISITED the top secret Battle of the Atlantic command centre in Rumford Street and was very impressed , but I feel it would be even more interesting if they had dummy figures dressed in naval and wrens ' uniforms and placed in their respective positions . |
| 8 | ‘ People who have skills in one authority are likely to be accepted in another unless they have higher standards of training and qualifications , but it is too early to see any pattern , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Most CAD installations in the UK are turnkey units — so-called because they come complete and all the buyer has to do is turn the key and start learning . |
| 10 | All of these except reaction ( c ) are spontaneous since they have negative G values . |
| 11 | He points out in the British Journal of Educational Psychology that the results of these schemes have been disappointing and it is doubtful whether they have any permanent effect on intelligence . |
| 12 | " Oh , they love it when the kids are babies , dressing them up and looking after them , everybody loves babies , but it 's different when they get older , " they say . |
| 13 | There was also a growing body of opinion in Westminster and Whitehall amongst many of those who had initially welcomed Sandys ’ 1957 Defence White Paper , that his doctrine was not as sensible as they had first thought . |
| 14 | His grandfather , Bo Min Yaung , had fought as a guerrilla against the British when they occupied Upper Burma . |
| 15 | The tentative price was £8,000 and Oceanic Airways of Australia were interested as they operated 10 Monospar four-seaters . |
| 16 | The distant forest became obscured by a misty darkness which closed in round them , broken by the odd pinprick of light as they passed some hamlet or village . |
| 17 | Women are old when they reach 60 and men are old at 65 . |
| 18 | Old when they say old antiquarian books |
| 19 | They are expensive and share many of the disadvantages of hypochlorites although they are more acceptable as they have little smell or taste . |
| 20 | They rode in single file , for the ground became broken as they climbed higher and the hoofs of their mounts dislodged loose stones that clattered down the hillside . |
| 21 | ‘ It seems to me that what our children have got is a little square box with predominantly soaps and games shows , with fingertip control to get them from one to another as they get bored . |
| 22 | Sandy beats his daughters gleefully , and has a string of mistresses , moving from one to another as they get sick of him . |
| 23 | Also , the stage was bigger than they 'd first thought . |
| 24 | The back bends could be more versatile if they had flatter carvers , with more radius in the stem . |
| 25 | We define ALT patterns to be distinct if they have different abstract shapes . |
| 26 | She wondered if you would mind very much if they came another time . |
| 27 | This may not matter too much if they have professional advisers on whom they could rely . |
| 28 | For example , say you 'd tinkered JMP-1 presets 4 , 14 , 20 and 26 until they represented sonic perfection . |
| 29 | Confirming instances are such if they give inductive support to a theory , and the greater the number of confirming instances established , the greater the support for the theory and the more likely it is to be true . |
| 30 | Renewed famine , more devastating even than that of 1984-85 , threatened an estimated 8,000,000 of the population , who faced starvation in 1991 unless they received 1,500,000 tonnes of food , according to relief agency estimates [ see p. 37945 ] . |