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

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1 As a result they lose contact with everybody — with their employees , their customers and their suppliers too .
2 Suppose it has never been decided whether people who accept a check they have reason to believe is forged can nevertheless collect on it .
3 Team loyalties are thrown aside as they form a group they call l'autobus .
4 ’ It wis a right they fought fir .
5 Individuals feel that they need to save less than before , as they have property or shares to ‘ fall back on ’ , and as a consequence they raise consumption .
6 Dr Noyan and his colleagues believe that the act of stretching coordinates the spontaneous movements of the smooth muscle of the lymph node , a process they call frequency stabilisation .
7 After a while they make adobe bricks and build their houses by stages , one room followed by another .
8 When the academies opened their doors to women in 1919 the association changed its curriculum to offer preparatory courses , the drawing teachers ' course was closed and for a while they placed emphasis on the trade-oriented forms , like book-binding which was also started later at the state school .
9 Although these turned out to be insubstantial , for a while they created concern from a security point of view .
10 But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money .
11 The Royal Mail refuses to be interviewed , but in a statement they deny harassment and say the picket line is intimidating .
12 As a crowd they had power as well as anonymity .
13 Often they will want to be able to telephone solicitors when somebody in the CAB has a problem they need help with .
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