Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] they [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 2 | We strap them to the plane 's fuselage and pump them full of compressed air until we achieve neutral buoyancy . ’ |
| 3 | One is the Nimrodel , which consoles their grief and promises them partial security ; as Frodo wades it ‘ he felt that the stain of travel and all weariness was washed from his limbs ’ . |
| 4 | He blotted the card and slid them both under the counter . |
| 5 | Because that 's the way you develop players , give them a chance of first-grade football and get them used to operating in the big time . |
| 6 | I nearly slipped up there Dick I , I , ick I nearly slipped up there President and called them slippery dog-eared toe-rags , I 'm glad I avoided that one |
| 7 | And lastly , Geoffrey , is it fair to lump the English , the Scots , the Irish and the Welsh together in one compartment and call them British ? |
| 8 | From the loaf I have taken with me I tear off several pieces of crust and toss them one by one into the current , which carries them over the spot where the chub surfaced . |
| 9 | He slapped both hands palms down on the table , slopping his tea and making them all jump , totally unselfconscious in his misery . |
| 10 | Within each schedule you need to identify the priorities and to make certain that you give them their due weight and tackle them first . |
| 11 | The guidelines have been drawn up carefully by care assistants and managers who have put them into practice and found them useful themselves . |
| 12 | A man called Rodrigo Paestra has discovered his nineteen-year-old wife with a lover and shot them both . |
| 13 | When they disembarked at Algeciras , the Spanish customs officers searched the car and made them open their luggage . |
| 14 | Tom , when he woke later had insisted that they should absorb some culture , had chivvied them both into his car and driven them first to the Villa Lante . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Apparently FirstPerson will have a tough task to water down the industrial-strength principals of Spring and make them lightweight enough for the mass consumer market . |
| 17 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Father Peter took three earthenware bowls from a small cupboard near the inglenook and served them generous portions of soup from a black bowl which hung perilously from an iron hook above the flames . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Although the case was ‘ exceptional ’ , due to the size of the financial crash , and a careful balance between the administrators ' reasonable needs and the oppression of the addressee was necessary , applications were not necessarily unreasonable because they were inconvenient to the addressee , caused a lot of work or made them vulnerable to future claims . |
| 23 | Twice he 'd driven over to see his mother and come back optimistic that she 'd come round to the marriage and visit them one day soon . |
| 24 | She ca n't remember how she spent that day but has a vague memory of being like a wild animal howling through the house , tears pouring down her face , drinking brandy , tearing at her clothes , pulling his clothes out of the wardrobe and holding them close to her , burying her face in them , trying to recover the smell of him . |
| 25 | That night a bird hurled itself against the window pane and woke them both up . |
| 26 | At the height of the criticism , Law met constituency chairmen and agents at the Queen 's Hall and told them that |
| 27 | The 90/110 type plugs which are parallel wired will not fit your head , but I believe there is a type , new on the market , which will replace the old type and make them quicker to heat up and are parallel wired , so if one burns out the rest will start the engine . |
| 28 | Can we expect individuals to enjoy equal rights and participation in their social lives and yet work under an authoritarian structure at the workplace that gives them little responsibility and allows them little scope for participation ? |
| 29 | Crows and tits hold small seeds in one foot and hammer them open with their beaks . |
| 30 | The juvenile courts also had powers to place children in care , and the former children 's departments had to receive children in need of care and protection and find them substitute homes . |