Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He blotted the card and slid them both under the counter . |
| 2 | He slapped both hands palms down on the table , slopping his tea and making them all jump , totally unselfconscious in his misery . |
| 3 | A man called Rodrigo Paestra has discovered his nineteen-year-old wife with a lover and shot them both . |
| 4 | Now that you have a vague idea what is going on , you could be forgiven for throwing up your hands in disgust and letting them all get on with it . |
| 5 | When practising a complete and complex system drill it is of course not possible to place all the separate drills side by side and drill them all in one go . |
| 6 | If the whites can only hold their form , this may allow us to sneak up on the blind side and pip them both at the death . |
| 7 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 8 | I wish him and his friends no evil , ’ said Bishop Jon , shaking down his book-satchel and peering into it , ‘ but it 's a difficult thing to make plans for your country with them sitting there , their heads switching from this shoulder to the other , and so sleek you would think it was a cow that licked them all . |
| 9 | The sudden jerky movement rocked the boat , creating a wave that knocked them both off balance . |
| 10 | They gave the place a summery look , an ironic note considering the winter that cloaked them both . |
| 11 | She gave a loud , bitter shout of laughter that made them all stare . |
| 12 | Yet , their frame of mind was always streaked with anxiety that caused them both to be forever on the watch . |
| 13 | That night a bird hurled itself against the window pane and woke them both up . |
| 14 | At the height of the criticism , Law met constituency chairmen and agents at the Queen 's Hall and told them that |
| 15 | At first I could n't see them , but when I heard a little quack I had a close look and saw them all there huddled together and trying to keep warm . |
| 16 | On the moors O'Hara had endeavoured to summon up Heathcliff , and a gust of wind from beyond the grave had blown the cycle off course and toppled them both into a ditch . |
| 17 | The glow through , er yes the paper was erm , was the same colour all the way through and er , and erm they had quite an impact , but of course they , would only last a year or two er and er they started a small factory in London and , erm call it Hula-Hoops I think er , I do n't know whether Hula-Hoops came from the lighting shades or the lighting shades from the Hula-Hoops , but it was the same process that made them both and er this was erm thin plastic tubing brightly coloured , er which was er cemented together into er |
| 18 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
| 19 | He was talking faster and faster , pulling an accordion pleat of plastic cards from his pocket , folding and unfolding it , slipping each card past the robot 's swivelling eye and puffing them all back again before it could read any of them . |
| 20 | The children opened each jar and sampled them all . |
| 21 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 22 | Chief Inspector of CID took charge and charged them all and then diplomacy came in and they went to court , discharged , back on the ship , and away . |
| 23 | ‘ It represents a new way of thinking about the media world we live in and a new way of learning the skills of active engagement and critical reflection with all forms of modern media — television , video , film , radio , print , and the glue that binds them all together — advertising , ’ says Sister Elizabeth Thoman , Executive Director of the Center for Media and Values . |
| 24 | These front line workers , like the rest of us , have certain taken-for-granted ideas about ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ parenting , and they are also given expert knowledge that tells them some of the factors to which child abuse is positively related . |
| 25 | Comrade Wu , our guide who is coming with us for the rest of the tour , is teaching us some Chinese in the evenings , and we are trying out some new phrases every day and causing them some amusement . |
| 26 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 27 | Then Miss Harker lifted her head and addressed them all in solemn tones . |
| 28 | Following the instructions , I filled my saucepans and kettle with water and set them all to boil . |
| 29 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 30 | ‘ Your teeth 'll be straight in six months , and you can get contact lenses when your father 's insurance comes in at Christmas , grow a bosom and stun them all . ’ |