Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe if we were teaching them properly they would know how to protest without just resorting to violence or vandalism of some type , without the first step being breaking the rules ; but we do n't . |
| 2 | He said ‘ if we were teaching them properly they would know how to protest … ’ |
| 3 | They used to come out every summer to Southmoor , where I lived , to pick the hops and work on the local market garden and erm I agree with whoever said if you treat them right they 'll treat you right . |
| 4 | And it was Alec that was driving and Will Will , he said mind where your about Alec , you 'll er you 'll soon be in a ditch but good 's sake he said it 's not me So they were both |
| 5 | So mum and dad have half of that third they 'd share it out between them so they got |
| 6 | So here 's the hypothesis to explain that ellipsis is confined to constituents where constituents are just what they sound like , genuine components of a larger thing which is signalled by sticking brackets , labelled brackets round them so they make a phrase and you can do certain things with them . |
| 7 | group to go in and to spell them so they can talk to individual kids . |
| 8 | It 's either the job or something means they 've got ta go away or they ca n't afford , they ca n't sell them so they I do n't know if that would make your income different if you were still paying a mortgage . |
| 9 | It 's all right for them because their kids can go on holiday with them so they 've got no problems . |
| 10 | Mind they can get them so they lamb any time now ca n't they ? |
| 11 | They 're spelt how you say them so they can be spelt er ten different ways in the same village ! |
| 12 | The the men are no longer liberated and can have them so they just y it 's quite funny but you do n't get them now . |
| 13 | about what drugs do to them so they go and try it . |
| 14 | And you ca n't let people touch them so they have to be in glass cases which are hugely expensive and take up a lot of room , and the director is not very interested in costume . |
| 15 | And they 've gone all , you see I have n't been eating them so they 've been in the fridge and they 've gone all soft . |
| 16 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 17 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 18 | Okay all the different , any two , all the two numbers so that when you multiply them together they make three sixty . |
| 19 | Trade credit is an unsecured loan given to someone so they can use it to buy your goods and services . |
| 20 | I always they 're you know . |
| 21 | When they 're sitting in the middle of road there , I stop , I stop the car and I sometimes they 'll sit up and look at you |
| 22 | Yeah and the thing is you they do n't forget that when you phone someone else they 're doing something else . |
| 23 | If it was someone else they 're hardly likely to ring the door bell with Jim standing beside the front door , are they ? |
| 24 | When they took them away they said we could come and reclaim them any time we wanted , if we brought ten rupees . |
| 25 | I ai n't thrown them away they 've got twenty five percent off ai n't they ? |
| 26 | A junior spin doctor wandered down the aisle of bus and aeroplane using the language which presumably they drum into them at medical school : ‘ I will certainly convey your request to the Prime Minister for a comment on these polls , but I think you will find him taking the view that after April 9 you will all be writing about him winning the only poll that matters . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Which presumably they did ? ’ |
| 28 | But they were the owners of the securities , and it was by their own mandate , which presumably they might have recalled , that payment was made directly to the beneficiary . |
| 29 | Have a code word or sign with your parents or guardians , which only they and you know . |
| 30 | And it is an improvement which only they have the requisite professional skills and training to undertake . |