Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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1 | In the final prints they were pushed back even more , loosing out some of the green . |
2 | Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read . |
3 | In the fertile valleys they acquired large agricultural granges , some to be farmed by their own lay brothers , others let out to tenants who formed clusters of farm ‘ townships ’ . |
4 | But I must say , in the five years they were together I 've never seen Sarah so happy and contented . |
5 | In the four years they had been separated , she had seen her husband only twice , and both times had been quite by chance . |
6 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
7 | If they stay in the lower divisions they 'll have to eliminate seating in seven years time . |
8 | In the biblical narratives they appear as singers and dancers ( see for example , Exod. |
9 | Some time in the early hours they had reached Madeira . |
10 | Why the women change mid-career — in the early books they 're pathetic , victims , and then suddenly , when du Maurier reaches her forties , these women start becoming the strong ones . |
11 | In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres , principally wool and mohair . |
12 | In the three Tests they captured only 28 wickets , while in the one-day internationals they drew 3-3 , having led 3-1 . |
13 | The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such , more like crustaceans , specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature , but still clinging to their old habitat , sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore . |
14 | In the first place , the working classes naturally wanted to participate in the economic benefits they were helping to produce in the industrial and service sectors . |
15 | The Labour Party , dominated by the free trade philosophy of Philip Snowden , offered more of the same and was barely distinguishable from the Conservatives in the economic policies they offered — except for the Conservative Party 's references to ‘ safe-guarding of industry , ’ a code-phrase for selective protectionism . |
16 | In the western provinces they have been distributing leaflets , many carrying the warning : Pros tvoeu chi , neari tvoeu pouch — ‘ We will make the men into fertiliser , and keep the women for reproduction ’ — to deter collaboration with the government . |
17 | In the elder days they were relatively empty lands , occupied by those who sought to escape the more civilised realms and return to nature . |
18 | However as regards 40% of the subjects examined the correlations were not significant and in the remaining subjects they were significant but low . |
19 | In the semi finals they 'll meet Old Northamptonians or Fleetwood . |
20 | In the 16 years they have lived here , the kitchen has had three transformations , all carried out by John . |
21 | Above : The Saunders ' kitchen has had three different looks in the 16 years they have lived here , each created by John , an architectural interior engineer . |
22 | In the Middle Ages they would have gone on pilgrimages to the knee-cap of Saint Whoever , to the great profit of the Church . |
23 | In the dying stages they broke away , only to hit the woodwork twice from good positions , but their early goal enabled them to double their hosts . |
24 | Up in the remote villages they would be reason ably safe and the people would help them . |
25 | Accommodation should therefore be available both to assist them in the personal adjustments they will have to make and to ensure that at the outset they are suitably accommodated . |
26 | Oh I I think , think that they differed in as far as they were a tiny little bit more ambitious and wanted a sort of erm a a little bit better life , but everybody even in the terraced houses they were all very respectable people , very respectable people I mean er I |
27 | Even in the Regal Arms they were liable to think it unusual if anybody carried a body or a badly wounded man down the stairs and out through the front door . |
28 | The GNPP and PRP possess the state radios in the two states they each control , and the PRP government in Kano State has started newspapers there . |
29 | Their marriage of mind barely peeps above the surface of surviving documents , though it is plain enough in the two masterpieces they produced in 1945 , Brideshead Revisited and Animal Farm . |
30 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |