Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These blooming ears they make more trouble than they 're wor , erm , than they 're worth ! |
| 2 | The young photographers have bought an old caravan with part of a £500 English Heritage Award for Youth Arts they won last March . |
| 3 | Their ultimate source is maps from Roman imperial times , but in the eleventh and twelfth centuries they received such modifications as the placing of Jerusalem in the centre , as on the Hereford map . |
| 4 | When monks from France and Flanders were settled in the Border abbeys in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries they introduced new skills , and also devoted themselves to the expansion of sheep rearing to provide the necessary basic material . |
| 5 | Popular at home ( the Duke of Edinburgh recently bought one ) , for foreigners they offer cheap chic : a cab dismissed after ten years ' service sells for around £1,500 ( $1,250 ) . |
| 6 | In drawing up their lists they take great care to achieve a balance that reflects the diversity of the electorate 's concerns . |
| 7 | If they do n't have the waiver of premiums they get more units , because the more money goes into the er , whatsit . |
| 8 | I mention them briefly because among management trainers they have many aficionados ; they are written about more fully elsewhere . |
| 9 | To separate their individual styles they split those evenings into consecutive 1520 minute slots and they retain that format for the tour . |
| 10 | Meanwhile the indefatigable Joanna Castle is taking yet another group of children around part of her downlands on the Ridgeway , where the calves they met last year are now only a year away from being next year 's Sunday roast |
| 11 | So if somebody just writes those two words they get two marks . |
| 12 | It has sixty four pages with one hundred and ninety thousand words They spent two days working around the clock typing it into a computer , now their master disc is being used by a Sunday newspaper to publish the whole thing this weekend . |
| 13 | In some respects they use new language and embody in a formal text rules that have not been specified in that way before ; this has indeed been the way the laws of war have developed for 150 years . |
| 14 | Once behind their peers they need individual attention to improve their reading . |
| 15 | The French government also announced that it would pay more than £5 million compensation to French fishermen for half the losses they reported last month as a result of falling prices . |
| 16 | During autumn and winter months they produce increased amounts of more fertile semen , the malodorous scent glands behind the horn-bearing areas increase in activity and libido and such charming habits as spraying the backs of their front legs with urine increase . |
| 17 | After the reports some political worthies spew out the same old phrases they parroted last time the natives grew restless somewhere . |
| 18 | There are instances of change in diet related to habitat : tawny owls living in wooded areas eat more moles and fewer birds , whereas in more open areas they eat more voles and birds ( Southern , 1954 ) . |
| 19 | In some older dances they each hold a corner of a handkerchief to form a link and in some areas they link little fingers . |
| 20 | The names given to these pools give a hint of the variety of the bacteria and the splendour of the effects they produce Emerald Pool , Sulphur Cauldron , Beryl Spring , Firehole Falls , Morning Glory Pool and — a particularly rich one with several species of bacteria — Artists ' Paintpots . |
| 21 | As a result , cats spend a great deal of time every day dealing with their toilet , and in addition to the typical licking movements they perform repeated scratchings . |
| 22 | A third , technical question — how temporary jobs affect rights to unemployment compensation and under what circumstances they open new rights to benefits — is dealt with in an appendix . |
| 23 | The , the normal family of two point four children , or whatever , is not the normal family nowadays , you 've got lone parent families , you 've got step parent families , reconstituted families , policies and services should take account of all the different needs of those different sorts of families , and very complex lives they lead these days ? |
| 24 | The CML also argued that solicitors should make annual returns on the number of conveyancing transactions they completed each year . |
| 25 | They have a lower level of seats , like the new East Stand , but instead of an upper level of seats they have executive boxes for the assorted reptilia who frequent such places . |
| 26 | In addition to working directly with pupils with special needs they advise mainstream teachers about programmes of work and they carry out detailed diagnostic assessment as necessary . |
| 27 | Almost three in four stated that for work purposes they bought good quality clothing to last , but almost half also said that they had completely ruined an item of clothing during working hours . |
| 28 | After two weeks they had enough evidence and they charged me . |
| 29 | In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant . |
| 30 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |