Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , out of the blue , Simon and Moscato announced after a considered assessment they had decided to opt out of the French national squad 's World Cup preparations . |
| 2 | After a lengthy campaign they 've been offered compensation for drop in value of their homes . |
| 3 | After a plain breakfast they went out again , still taking it slowly but this time with more of a distance in mind . |
| 4 | After a short while they retired to the back room and sat in a kind of play-pen atmosphere analysing Judit 's most recent game with a young American visitor . |
| 5 | After a short search they found a half brick made of concrete and went over to the water through . |
| 6 | After a brief rest they walked on across the plateau . |
| 7 | After a little while they got back to me and says right one 's finally broken down , the seventeen year old , it took them an hour and an half , we 've broke him down he 's admitted he 's done it . |
| 8 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 9 | Ironically , now that Renault and Volvo are part of a greater alliance they are seeking to use some of the same components in their two , separate gearboxes . |
| 10 | ‘ At the end of a month-long dispute they succeeded in obtaining the contract for these jobs from the hospital administration and were consequently entitled to the wage guaranteed by the National Cleaners Contract ’ . |
| 11 | We had always said if they had the chance of a private eduction they should have it . |
| 12 | The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions . |
| 13 | For want of a better word they 're actually stolen books are stolen . |
| 14 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
| 15 | If they were of a kindly nature they stayed that way , if they were narrow , tactless , or big-headed they stayed that way . |
| 16 | Although it would be wrong to presume that teachers who are excellent in their off-site unit work with small groups of pupils could necessarily become the vanguard of a new service they can provide the focus for some initial developments . |
| 17 | At the end of a roofless tunnel they found themselves standing in front of a long , high wooden counter . |
| 18 | At first the pupils confused the perimeter of the shape with the area , but with the help of a metre-square quadrant they developed the idea of square metres covering the inside of the shape . |
| 19 | You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now . |
| 20 | She carted all the junior nursing staff off during the afternoon for a training session in one of the treatment-rooms , and by the end of a vigorous drilling they seemed to have it firmly implanted . |
| 21 | Moreover , except in the context of a common market they are not thought to be of interest to outsiders . |
| 22 | They also detained , under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , the sister of a third man they want . |
| 23 | Glynn 's fax duly arrived and when it became apparent that the wiring was beyond the skills of a cack-handed caveman they promptly offered to collect the guitar ( I only live in Aberdeen ! ) , modify it and return it within a few working days . |
| 24 | One of the drawbacks of alluvial sources is that under the pressure of a growing demand they tend to be depleted to a point at which more intensive methods are called for . |
| 25 | Although strikes tend to be of a shorter duration they are concentrated around this key period when they are accompanied by picketing , working slowly to the rule book and the physical harassment of managers . |
| 26 | In front of a full house they steadily disintegrated , no one passing 24 as Roberts took 5 for 22. 139 all out left West Indies 107 ahead . |
| 27 | In the spaciousness of a large chamber they may make only four or five a second , but as they approach the rock walls and need to know exactly where they are in order not to crash into them , they increase the speed of the clicks until they are emitting as many as twenty a second and the sound becomes , to our ears , an almost continuous rattle . |
| 28 | In their encampment in the square , the hunger strikers said they would continue their protest against a new administration they describe as merely the old regime under a different name . |
| 29 | Lit up in their various colours against a white wall they can look spectacular ; unlit they take on an almost sculptural quality . |
| 30 | Unlike a normal congregation they can reach out a hand , twirl a knob and obliterate the message . |