Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] the [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until a few years ago , married women had to have paid full NI contributions for half the time they were married and working to get anything at all in their own right . |
| 2 | After all the hassle they should know exactly where they stood with each other , Merrill thought as she dressed on Saturday evening . |
| 3 | Both , after all the control they needed before the fight , finally were able to show some emotion . |
| 4 | ‘ After all the trouble they 've caused ? ’ |
| 5 | The association provided flats for young couples who after two years were given a return of half the rent they had paid to be used as a deposit on the purchase of a house . |
| 6 | Clearly it is impossible to give each of these the attention they merit and I do find EMI makes life extremely complicated with such a plethora of titles ; although each clearly has its place in the EMI scheme of things . |
| 7 | They must have got rid of all the junk they could find in their store-rooms . |
| 8 | Has , I wonder , the recent easy availability of all the sex they can handle done EMF 's head in ? |
| 9 | ‘ It was an obvious choice , partly because of all the business they were doing in Europe and also because the public was fed up with the same old faces ; here was someone fresh at last , ’ recalls Peter Batty , director of the him . |
| 10 | They quite fail to conceal the troubled human shallowness of all the raunch they profess so coolly and brightly to place and displace with a laugh . ’ |
| 11 | And , gentle though it was , the touch of his lips held the seed in it of all the passion they had shared — and would share , she knew now , in the future . |
| 12 | ‘ When I think of all the time they 've wasted , trying to prove me guilty while the real killer goes free … ’ |
| 13 | They will be able to keep half of all the treasure they find ( unrealistically generous , certainly ) but it will all have to be declared . |
| 14 | Yet , for all the suffering they will cause in Kuwait — killing people as well as thousands of animals — such pollution is not a catastrophe on a planetary scale , as some had predicted . |
| 15 | In his report , the Chairman Reg Simmons thanked the retiring committee for all the work they had done . |
| 16 | He had not returned any fulsome gratitude to his staff for all the work they had put in during the day ; but he always found it difficult to express his deeper feelings . |
| 17 | She says I owe so much to my staff for all the work they 've put in to getting this place going again . |
| 18 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 19 | And as we are unlikely to see any real harmonisation of accounting procedures , fiscal requirements or business practices throughout the Community in the near future , pan-European accounting systems will be increasingly important to the large number of UK companies looking for all the help they can get . |
| 20 | I am also grateful to the following for all the help they gave me : Derek Adlam , Martha Novak Clinkscale , Stephanie Cudmore , Alan Curtis , Donatella De Giampetro , Alfons Huber , William Jurgenson , Sabine Matzenauer , Grant O'Brien , Enrico Paganuzzi , Paul Poletti and Stewart Pollens . |
| 21 | I am happy there at the moment , and I want to repay Yorkshire for all the support they have given me over the years . ’ |
| 22 | The tobacco growers had been accustomed to trading practically exclusively with their home country for reasons of language and sentiment , because it was safer , and because England and the London re-export trade provided an adequate market for all the tobacco they could grow . |
| 23 | The word from Woburn House was that everybody should cooperate with all the enthusiasm they could muster . |
| 24 | ‘ They can afford it with all the money they tek off people , ca n't they ? ’ |
| 25 | You 'll be nervous so you fill the gap with all the shit they really want to hear . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Dear God , we beseech ye , visit the reactive wrath of their own foulness upon those nasty wee buggers in the Khmer Rouge in general , and upon their torturers , and their leader Pol Pot , in particular ; may each iota of pain they have inflicted on the people of their country — heathen or not — rebound upon their central nervous system with all the agony they originally inflicted upon their victims . |
| 27 | Also , Lord God , we ask that you remember the dark deeds of any communistic so-called-interrogators , in this time of great upheaval in eastern Europe ; we know that you will not forget their crimes when their day of reckoning comes , and their guttural , Slavic voices cry out to ye for mercy , and ye reward them with all the compassion they ever showed to those unfortunate souls delivered unto them . |
| 28 | HELPLINE , the Institute 's computerised information service can provide busy managers with all the information they need via their own personal terminals . |
| 29 | In the context of an infill project the competing contractors will be supplied with all the information they need to tender for the job but on a fixed price basis , including the total management of the contract and |
| 30 | Because they have seen the future they can not or will not speak of what they know so the Phoenix Guard are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in all the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |