Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of State threatened the recalcitrant authorities that unless they met specific targets he would use his power under the Act to appoint an agent to take over the sale of a council 's houses . |
| 2 | There were no strike pay , you just had a promissory note that er if ever they got any money they 'd pay you , you see ? |
| 3 | Whilst projects were delighted when they got pump-priming money they also had to draw on a range of local resources . |
| 4 | " If they hate scientific evidence they certainly hate arithmetic more . |
| 5 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 6 | If they became tied agents they were authorised to do business through the life office which took them on ; the life office , in turn , was responsible for their conduct . |
| 7 | And so they made two provisions which make the situation rather different . |
| 8 | Once they made that decision it was really all over . |
| 9 | The breakthrough was inspired by belated realisation on the part of Pretoria and the ANC that unless they made rapid progress what is left of the South African economy would be wrecked . |
| 10 | They passed two motor-cyclists who emitted no bleep , and two powerful motor-bikes overtook them , but the D/F they sought was still proceeding steadily ahead of them . |
| 11 | They were on Oh and there was the er where the Midland Bank is , there was a cafe there and they sold odd things you know . |
| 12 | Er it 's er it 's a ex W D lens , after wartime they sold these things they sold them in catalogues and I sent of for this one , and it 's about a stone and a half in weight . |
| 13 | If they make stable contacts they pull the sheet to the site of contact , but others merely lose contact and are withdrawn . |
| 14 | The point at issue is , then , that companies are able to make choices which have important social consequences : they make private decisions which have public results . |
| 15 | In March 1939 the CRREC claimed that ‘ Not only are Jewish children with no particular religious affiliation being placed in non Jewish homes and schools , utterly abandoned as far as their religious education is concerned , but even children who have been brought up in a religious atmosphere … are being callously placed in non Jewish schools and homes , where they suffer mental torture which , in at least one case , has brought the child to the verge of a nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 16 | They are redundant , but not because the world can be described in terms of eternal " propositions which are true or false in virtue of being the propositions they are , but because they advertise certain claims which can equally successfully be conveyed implicitly , viz. by asserting the proposition or its negation , as the case may be . |
| 17 | Psychiatrists themselves are not certain exactly how they work but they replace certain amines which appear to be low in those suffering depression . |
| 18 | Their expertise is incredible and on many occasions they defeated Spanish invaders who were armed with swords and lances . |
| 19 | It is no good trying to convince some folks , if they want pure wool they are going to have it ! |
| 20 | W/Cpl Burns informs the Volkspoliqei that their request is outside the terms of the Agreement , and that if they want any details they must call for a Soviet officer , to whom the information will be given . |
| 21 | But seriously they want ten times whatever ! |
| 22 | Instead , they want three anaesthetists who live nearer Llandudno Hospital to be put on a local cover rota . |
| 23 | These men did not describe themselves as Zuwayi hurr , but even though their activities were largely circumscribed by their police work , they maintained some activities which were typical of a free Zuwaya . |
| 24 | The danger is that to give their advice some reality they suggest minor changes which have then to be included . |
| 25 | The churchmen were less buoyant , having presented Mr de Klerk with a memorandum in which they listed six steps he had to take ‘ immediately ’ before negotiations about the government 's much-vaunted new political dispensation could start . |
| 26 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 27 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 28 | There was no retrospective talk from the management about the players they had lost , instead they found new players who made a tremendous impact , and Scotland were consequently able to reshape their whole style and pattern of play . |
| 29 | These funerary items were nearly always painted by heraldic amateurs — signwriters , coachbuilders and so on — so although they provide useful clues they should not be regarded as authoritative , but of course the fact that they are not can also form part of the story the local historian has to tell . |
| 30 | They head 600 volunteers who have already put themselves forward for 200 new Government teams which will be checking on classroom standards after September , 1993 . |