Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the men there who were aggrieved , who had had better wages as the war had ended and there was such a rush on , wages had gone up , but the once the boom was got over they came down . |
| 2 | She and her two companions worked half the night in trying to come up with an answer , but as Dino 's car was working perfectly they were forced to the conclusion that the problem did not lie in their department , even though this was fiercely disputed by the rest of the Carlisle Flint team . |
| 3 | One development in this respect is known as the ‘ Portage ’ programme , where the parents of the child are taught how they might best develop the potential of the child in a home environment . |
| 4 | The Shah seemed very pleased attitude was changing previously they had urged him to be a purely constitutional monarch ; now perhaps they wanted him to involve himself more in Iranian politics , He thought he must do that — otherwise there would be confusion and chaos . |
| 5 | Their collapse from top to near bottom has given grim satisfaction their army of ill-wishers in the rest of Welsh rugby , but really the seeds of the Welsh All Blacks ' failure were seen when they were becoming champions . |
| 6 | One of the most frequent reactions to the observation that many people do not understand about mental handicap is to question why they should . |
| 7 | Incredibly even if the person who set the snare is found out they may be beyond the reach of the law |
| 8 | If their application were turned down they would in future have only one appeal rather than two . |
| 9 | ‘ While the show was going on they were peering at other faces in the audience and saying things like ‘ I think I can see my mother ’ and ‘ I think I can see my uncle . ’ |
| 10 | Where systems specific to that survey are set up they are er , documented er , in the master job file . |
| 11 | He stressed the importance of the public being told how they can help to prevent the spread of the disease . |
| 12 | And when people in our main survey were asked how they would like to repay a loan ( Appendix 1 , Tables 47a and 47b and comments on those tables ) , the great majority said they would prefer monthly repayments , or at least would not mind ; only one in five said they would prefer weekly repayments . |
| 13 | And everyone in the press was saying how they had won the fucking thing already . |
| 14 | The problem was to decide how they could retain it and exercise It . |