Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve White of Swindon says they 've still got some tough teams to play but they are in good form and if they do n't get into the play-offs it will be their fault |
| 2 | She was fleetingly reminded of Shildon insisting they walked singly into the newsroom so no one should know they had been talking together . |
| 3 | When the Kitchings moved out of Tubwell Row they bought up land on a track called Whessoe Lane , which ran from Northgate to the village farmhouse . |
| 4 | The makers of Lamisil , Sandoz Pharmaceuticals of Surrey say they tested the drug for 5 years before using it on humans . |
| 5 | Friends of Cuba suggest they may just scrape through now that oil in commercial quantities has been found . |
| 6 | Both the ECGD and Bank of Scotland said they would not comment until the programme had been shown . |
| 7 | A century and a half ago , the canal owners of England thought they were in the business of owning canals . |
| 8 | Because after all critics will say if representative democracy is n't the best practical realization of democracy but simply a sham , after all remember Russo 's comments on England , the people of England think they 're free but they 're mistaken , they 're free once every five years when they elect their rulers . |
| 9 | Not since the days of Nasser have they felt any self-respect . |
| 10 | When Hollywood moguls decided to make a feature film of Gungha Din they brought Sir Robert from Canada to act as technical advisor . |
| 11 | And what sort of God did they believe was best worshipped in a basilica that leaves no lily ungilded ? |
| 12 | In a separate development , British Aerospace and Thomson CSF of France confirmed they were considering making a joint offer for Ferranti . |
| 13 | The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force . |
| 14 | Or maybe it 's just that Scotland is too familiar with lads from the back streets of Edinburgh claiming they have a license to kill . |
| 15 | General Motors of America believed they had made a major breakthrough into the British market in 1985 when they persuaded Foster Yeoman to buy four specially constructed 3,300hp locomotives to haul heavy stone traffic from their Merehead quarry to locations in the South East . |
| 16 | The organisers of Telethon say they do consult disabled people about the event and feel such an opinion is a minority one . |
| 17 | At the corner of Bowyers Row they stood aside as a huge , wooden wagon rolled by , pulled by four horses , their manes hogged , eyes blinkered and nostrils flaring at the corrupting smell of death . |
| 18 | Cleveland trading standards officer Eric Robinson who collated a file of complaints against SureStyle , said they wanted the Office of Fair Trading to take action against the directors of SureStyle to ensure they as individuals did not pursue these sales tactics in the future . |