Example sentences of "they [verb] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He writes that people ‘ choose ’ yakhtaru ) members of committees ( see chapter I , ‘ Popular congresses and people 's committees ’ ) ; but everyone else called these choosings ‘ elections ’ ( intikhab ) : older people had experience , younger ones the tradition of elections under the monarchy ; and they assimilated these procedures . |
| 2 | The four categories of need chosen by the Authority varied considerably in the extent to which they met these conditions , at both LEA and school level . |
| 3 | Ronnie Cairns , a fluent Japanese speaker who acted as interpreter , said : ‘ They met these boys in Botanic Gardens and were chatted up . |
| 4 | I mean to say er used to see people years ago and they got these cine cameras and and all , we could never have one of those you know and a record of the kids when they were young . |
| 5 | Well they got these blacklegs and I could tell you a story about that as well . |
| 6 | Would they make these distinctions in their own speech when given the opportunity to do so ? |
| 7 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 8 | Cos they asked these questions about why it was being held and everything . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They sold these kits shelf |
| 11 | In two respects — the nature of their self-concepts and their social networks — their position was quite highly domestic and kin-oriented , but they shared these characteristics with other women in the sample . |
| 12 | What do they build these days ? |
| 13 | Why , for that matter , do they prepare these deeds in one continuous sentence , interspersed with a myriad of semicolons and finalised with a colon ? |
| 14 | And eventually they said well the stereotype is basically sort of like the equivalent in litho plate making really said that this was , no of course it is metal , sorry it 's not metal , it is letterpress The Guardian and it is , they make these Nyclopone plates or something and they really wanted to keep it for that reason . |
| 15 | As they sit , they make these filaments move and flicker . |
| 16 | They make these suggestions because , ‘ Well , that 's what people do at conferences , is n't it ? ’ |
| 17 | OXFORD BOOKWORMS are successful because they combine these elements . |
| 18 | By this they mean these explanations and facts , research and analysis , thought and hypothesis , abstractions and theories , are uncontaminated by subjective inclinations , personal prejudices , biases , all that sort of thing , so noticeable among non-scientists . |
| 19 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |
| 20 | We 'd like to see the er government give a very clear signal to er the police that they want these laws not to be enforced in this prejudiced and discriminatory way . |
| 21 | We saved the party in nineteen eighty three , the G M B saved the party in that er , a crisis time th with the formation of the S D P and today the Tory government on its knees , staggering along and we have some people in the leadership of the Party and including , we can name them now , somebody 's written , writte written to all the constituencies , Neil Kinnock , who have given up the ghost of Labour ever winning again , and that 's what 's the base and the root of what 's going on , that 's why they want these proposals going through , they want to separate the trade unions from the Party so they can do a deal with the Liberals because they 've given up . |
| 22 | What , because they want these vehicle raffle thing ? |
| 23 | They built these houses onto the back of the park which became the golf course . |
| 24 | In the case of major company resources it is fair to say that the very large companies invest millions in their computer systems and they expect these systems to have a life span of at least a decade . |
| 25 | The reason why they maintained these holdings in dollars , rather than selling them for some other currency , was that dollar investments in New York remained attractive despite the decline in the relative value of the dollar in the early seventies . |
| 26 | The schools were quick to point out to us that they regarded these figures for truancy as an underestimate . |
| 27 | We need to gather more information about how things have turned out other than people expected when they created these procedures and codes in the first place . |
| 28 | People , they build these institutions like governments or rock bands or anything , and reality is distorted . |
| 29 | When they build these days , they build one really obvious one which Canary Wharf is |
| 30 | There are those who , whether they realise or not , are n't joking when they say these things . |