Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] they [det] " in BNC.

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1 Finally , to avoid a scene , his wife granted him an audience and Alice returned to her room upstairs to allow them some privacy .
2 Ackroyd put the signals to red , rang the station down the line to tell them that he had a problem and then rang the next station above to alert them that he still had a train in his section .
3 When Maureen and her father eventually returned they both fell into an exhausted sleep after seeing Julia resting peacefully , her breathing shallow but regular .
4 The object somehow binds them all together .
5 We did a confidential letter to Edinburgh District a month ago telling them that .
6 This created the problem that their English-style education taught them liberal principles , while the system then denied them that same liberal advancement to the higher echelons of power and social prestige .
7 Used to let them at me mum leave er my kids that she made of hers , yet she , me mum never treated them all the same
8 They have achieved much in recent years , but the Labour party never gives them any credit and is always moaning .
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