Example sentences of "they [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it came to war the humans won overwhelmingly — because their internal fights had given them plenty of military experience , while their enemies , although more formidable on paper , had had none . |
| 2 | The most important thing when keeping caterpillars is to give them plenty of fresh food . |
| 3 | Roberto blinks and smiles , then picks up the novel and my small dictionary and balances them one in each hand . |
| 4 | They confer a right to the ‘ equity ’ in the company and , in so far as members can be said to own the company , the ordinary shareholders are its proprietors , It is they who bear the lion 's share of the risk and they who in good years take the lion 's share of the profits ( after the directors and managers have been remunerated ) . |
| 5 | During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions . |
| 6 | You can forgive them anything from this perspective ; you can almost forgive them for changing the clocks . |