Example sentences of "they [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exactly oh yes that was shared between the men what erm , there used to be two men so they 'd get er share the three pound between them or five pound whatever it was . |
| 2 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 3 | They seem to say I spend more time with reptiles than I do with them or some people are very scared so they do n't tend to come around . |
| 4 | There are lots of new opportunities coming your way in the year ahead , but you must move quickly to take advantage of them or unscrupulous colleagues and rivals will get there before you . |
| 5 | There are lots of new opportunities coming your way in the year ahead , but you must move quickly to take advantage of them or unscrupulous colleagues and rivals will get there before you . |
| 6 | 9.1.1 The rents ( or any of them or any part of them ) under this Lease are outstanding for [ 14 days ] after becoming due whether formally demanded or not |
| 7 | Though her job is to translate as faithfully as possible , this process is replicated in her mind by ‘ bad copies ’ in which analogous discursive systems are conjoined in such a way as to emphasize disparities between them or unexpected parallels . |
| 8 | The parents seem to be protecting them although one fish , which does n't have a mate and is fairly aggressive , has managed to eat one or two . |
| 9 | The silence and emptiness of the scene did not become apparent to her until she turned into the drive of the house and realized there were no other cars parked there , no gaily clad groups tripping towards the garden , no jazz band to summon them nor hired flunkeys to greet them , no pop of champagne corks nor buzz of conversation , no bunting , no balloons , no merriment of any kind . |
| 10 | There they laboured and ate and prayed and slept and raised their kids , and treasured their stockpile of bolt guns and heavy stub weapons with which they must defend their domicile and livelihood against families not allied to them nor owing fealty to Lord Spinoza . |
| 11 | The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems . |
| 12 | No member of the committee , his representative or associate of them nor any person who was a member of the committee in the last twelve months must enter into any transaction whereby he receives out of the estate any payment for services given or goods supplied in connection with the administration or obtains any profit from the administration or acquires any asset forming part of the estate ( r 6.165(2) ) except with leave of the court , with prior sanction of the committee where full value for the transaction is given and in cases of urgency or by way of performance of a contract in existence at the date of the bankruptcy order where leave of the court is sought subsequently without delay ( r 6.165(3) ) . |
| 13 | There is much more to them than diplomatic negotiation . |
| 14 | Larger peer groups — the boys ’ or ‘ the lads ’ — often appear more important to them than individual friendships . |
| 15 | Big coins would be more easily recovered by those who lost them than smaller ones . |
| 16 | ‘ These kids have got more about them than most adults I know , ’ said Tiny , one of the voluntary American helpers who provided vital back-up . |
| 17 | Er and at the end of the quarter I could n't pay that , then obviously you got no dividend on it because you still owed them that hundred pounds , but they would take the book away so you could n't get any more . |
| 18 | He told them that many children learned more slowly . |
| 19 | The two young men , Guglielmo and Ferrando , are teased by Don Alfonso , who tells them that all women are the same — fundamentally faithless by nature . |
| 20 | ‘ Her courageous vigil reminds them that one day the atrocities of the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( the junta ) will be only a gruesome memory . ’ |
| 21 | So you go in a tell them that six windows are gon na cost them four and a half thousand and they go |
| 22 | When he did appear through the darkness , he was in a foul mood , and told them that several bombs had failed to explode . |
| 23 | I have a scanned image of the team with the new east stand behind them that i launch as my backdrop to windows . |
| 24 | and if it was forced upon them that this land 's going to have to be put into a , a kind of block |
| 25 | What was happening to them that this awareness had reached such a pitch in so short a time ? |
| 26 | John then continued , ‘ If any of the police again approach you or any of your colleagues-in-crime just tell them that this thing is bigger than any of you . ’ |
| 27 | It is precisely because of them that any progress at all has been accomplished in matters of racial discourse . |
| 28 | They are doubly attracted when it is clear to them that any movement will be all one way , and where all they have to do is to bide their time and wait for the inevitable profits . |
| 29 | This decided them that more work was needed to verify whether there was indeed fusion , and so they began to plan out a detailed strategy and designed an experiment — ‘ scaling it ’ in the sense that Fleischmann had learned in his days at Imperial College . |
| 30 | I was able to reassure them that those staff not required on site would be relocated into other company stores . |