Example sentences of "they [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gives them total protection against rain and wind , without weight or bulk , while remaining breathable so that their perspiration is n't trapped inside . |
| 2 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 3 | This will allow them unparalleled access to German and northern European markets . |
| 4 | Many of them expressed appreciation of local cathedral organists and parish musicians who provide a lead and incentive to others . |
| 5 | And for people accompanued by small children , there is a unique automatic baby listening service to give them complete peace of mind while enjoying their stay . |
| 6 | Them twilly things like |
| 7 | You know she used to be so petite , but god them damn legs on her ! |
| 8 | It allowed workers the opportunity to buy as much as 20 per cent of their company 's shares at half price as well as offering them low-interest loans for buying future shares once a stock market was established . |
| 9 | The software will also work across multiple domains , so that network managers in different parts of the organisation can simultaneously tweak the network ; this is achieved by giving them simultaneous access to the central management database . |
| 10 | I can see them bloody lines on her stocking |
| 11 | You should ask them both questions on the card , that way we 've got a better chance of getting them bloody card for yourself in n it ? |
| 12 | Though I am not superstitious or religious in any formal sense , I do feel that certain places that have had working within them strong forces for either good or evil absorb something and retain some of that force . |
| 13 | It is not difficult to find among them ample illustrations of Ruskin 's dictum that architecture reflects the life of the society around it . |
| 14 | He denied two charges of abandoning the pets in circumstances likely to cause them unnecessary suffering on October 23 last year . |
| 15 | Most of them enclosed letters to be forwarded to her . |
| 16 | In the first place , the mass media are ‘ so deeply embedded in the [ political ] system that without them political activity in its contemporary forms could hardly carry on at all ’ . |
| 17 | From the point of view of Spalding and Gonzalez-Casanova , the working class is seen to have been coopted by the political elite , offering them political support in the form of votes of union members and receiving , in return , favours such as improved wages or working conditions . |
| 18 | The training officer would issue them due warnings at interview : " This is a cut-throat business . |
| 19 | Teachers preparing for examinations … will find them rich sources of information . |
| 20 | The equity partners will usually want to give their junior colleagues and associates the opportunity to prove their ultimate worth to the firm and that can only be done by giving them direct experience of management . |
| 21 | So that there 's a kind of assessment built in there … but that piece of work goes forward in the end and is more , slightly more , formally assessed in the sense that we give them direct feedback on performance , and that runs from technical notes , director 's notes , to a very much more abstract formal assessment , which is essentially subjective , ‘ How does one feel about this piece , the atmosphere it creates ’ , … and that 's quite different from director 's notes , which can be of a technical variety to do with voice , movement , audibility , characterization , anything ; the things that are actually being described , analysed , looked at in the end … |
| 22 | The pensioners claim the society did n't give them adequate warnings of the risks involved when it advised them how to invest their money . |
| 23 | His clothes , some of them old things of Theo 's which had been altered for him , were shabby , and were getting spattered with paint . |
| 24 | The Central Area pulled all these parts together , as it were , and made them interdependent portions of the whole . |
| 25 | I also take billy kids for a pal near me and rear them free range with lots of love and cuddles . |
| 26 | Each man was armed with a pump-action shotgun with a shortened stock and a sling attachment to allow them free use of their hands , a handgun in a hip holster , and a sheathed knife . |
| 27 | Father Peter took three earthenware bowls from a small cupboard near the inglenook and served them generous portions of soup from a black bowl which hung perilously from an iron hook above the flames . |
| 28 | Father Peter waved them back to their seats and went across and poured them generous stoups of ale from the jar just outside the small buttery door . |
| 29 | The emphasis put on the respect shown by the first Ottoman rulers for the dervishes by granting them generous plots of land can also be interpreted as a denunciation of Bayezid 's policy of abolishing the rights on the and lands . |
| 30 | The idea that one can adopt an orphan baby elephant in Kenya and supply it with food and medicine for under £15 would be even more droll if I did not remember adopting a number of black babies in Africa as a schoolboy , and giving them foolish names like Chrysostom or Donaldina or Ambrose , at five shillings ( 25p ) a time . |