Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVID BATTY handed Leeds the European Cup verdict they wanted to hear last night : ‘ Count me in . ’ |
| 2 | Who remembers the public-service training films they used to show on TV , round about news time , with words and music by — The Scaffold ? — introducing us to the prospect of the 2p and the 5p and so on ? |
| 3 | Many of them , such as the Hanley Economic , Darlington , Harpenden , Chesham , Vernon and Clay Cross , pride themselves on the low interest rates they offer discerning borrowers . |
| 4 | The low security inmates they 're talking about were the same type of inmates who were at Wymott prison and caused 36 million pounds of damage . |
| 5 | About 20 technicians have made the trip so far , visiting in groups of four or five at a time to learn about the Swiss-made AISA machines they use . |
| 6 | The sun breaks through the hazy Teesside smog just as the show kicks off with the release of hundreds of helium-filled balloons about as environmentally-friendly as the tall factory chimneys they fly past . |
| 7 | What about , what about the lower tax band they 've brought out ? |
| 8 | And anybody here with the technical services department they would confirm that . |
| 9 | other division with the bloody starret cutter they sent us ! |
| 10 | By the early 1940s , the influence of Orson Welles and William Wyler as directors , together with Gregg Toland , the innovative lighting cameraman they shared with each other ( and sometimes with John Ford and Howard Hawks too ) , made deep-focus more fashionable . |
| 11 | Many of the larger investment managers now concentrate on institutional funds or set very high minima of £1m or so for the private client portfolios they will take on . |
| 12 | A couple who were alleged to have stolen from residents at the private nursing home they ran have been charged with theft . |
| 13 | In their work on the Labour Spain Committee they conclude : |
| 14 | In 1942 at the Labour Party Conference they adopted a motion moved by that gave , and I quote , the right to all forms of medical attention and treatment to a National Health Service . |
| 15 | So long as the Squigs are successfully herded by the prodder-armed Night Goblins they are moved and fight just like any other unit . |
| 16 | With the usual peasant hospitality they offered me a little saucer of quince jam and a thimbleful of raki as well as the glass of cistern water I requested . |
| 17 | According to a member of the Lebanese Security Services they were transferred to Libya , where the RCF had its headquarters , and on Jan. 8 the Phalangist Radio Free Lebanon reported that Walid Khaled , the RCF spokesman in Lebanon , said they had been " moved to a friendly country in preparation " ; on Jan. 12 Sa'id was paroled and sent to Libya , and the hostages were handed over to the Belgian government . |
| 18 | If they want the free bus passes they 've got to something done about themselves and . |
| 19 | Huddled together on the muddy earth floor they were content for a long time to embrace one another without speaking . |
| 20 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |
| 21 | The need for accountability — no matter how much discretion those working in the public sector exercise they will ultimately be accountable for their decisions either to superior officers or to the public through the tribunal systems . |
| 22 | The British government is sponsoring a proposal for a European Community ban on the import of tropical wild birds because of the high death rates they suffer during transport to Europe after their capture in the forests of Africa and South America . |
| 23 | Their aerial photographs he subjected to destructive scrutiny , the light crop lines they detected under the unbroken fields he dated several centuries later than the sacking of Aurae Phiala , the dark crop marks emerging so strongly in contrast he refused to consider as early Roman military lines , but set well back into pre-Roman settlement . |
| 24 | Although the plans have been welcomed by the CBI and the British Road Federation they are likely to raise a storm of protest from residents and local authorities directly affected and from conservation groups already concerned at the likely impact of the Channel Tunnel and its rail links with London . |
| 25 | Bowls of the clear chicken soup they loved were put on the table . |
| 26 | A cool breeze drifted through the open window , carrying with it the sound of water trickling softly from the old stone fountain they 'd painstakingly renovated in the inner courtyard . |
| 27 | If she stayed indoors much longer , Murphy would have taken over her tasks and have filled the old beer crates they were to use as laying boxes with straw , and be collecting the scraps from the kitchen , that Dora had reluctantly promised to keep for her . |
| 28 | IT WAS all the proof his family needed that the old Leslie Crowther they knew and loved had come home for Christmas . |
| 29 | In the old Tarzan movies they used drums , and they also used natives and the warriors carried a stick , they called it a forked stick and it looks like the assembly might need a new set of forked sticks |
| 30 | As a result , cats spend a great deal of time every day dealing with their toilet , and in addition to the typical licking movements they perform repeated scratchings . |