Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many people birds become an obsession — but for most they are but one part of the whole countryside experience . |
| 2 | Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa . |
| 3 | Furthermore , although this action takes place in a local congregation , it is the worship of the whole people of God — the living and the dead , the Church militant and triumphant , for together they constitute the body of Christ . |
| 4 | The narrative method they eventually choose is ‘ dialogic ’ in the most literal sense , for together they dictate the story directly into their computer . |
| 5 | We could can prime them up on what to say and types of things to talk about so they do n't get moaned down or something ! |
| 6 | Still , it appeared her advent had summoned a little luck into his life , for suddenly they began to discover plentiful growths of grass potatoes , forest leeks and turtle-berries , a welcome change from the stringy little rabbits and bitter roots they had eaten until then . |
| 7 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 8 | The style of the earliest red-figure does not differ from that of black-figure , and for long they flourished side by side ; but the new technique was to prove better suited than the old to new ideas of drawing and composition that developed as part of the general late sixth-century movement which undermined the conventions of archaic art . |
| 9 | He said , ‘ I must return it to the half-mortals , for only they in all the worlds can keep it safe now . ’ ’ |
| 10 | But it is the practitioners themselves who can do this most successfully , for only they carry authority with their peers . |
| 11 | Only John and Nora could see it , for only they knew of the terrible demand that would sooner or later be made on their resources — and it was going to be well over the hundred thousand that John had estimated . |
| 12 | those shell fish things they 're always on about in they get out the rocks |
| 13 | ‘ Mme Verard , ’ he wrote , ‘ for so they called her , in order to pay her that honour due to her staunchness and fidelity ( though the union had never been blessed in God 's sight ) , had heard among her people that they planned to fall upon the settlers and massacre them in their beds one moonlit night . |
| 14 | If you hang about after 10pm they come over and say ‘ If you lot ai n't out of here in five minutes , you 're nicked , the lot of you . ’ |
| 15 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
| 16 | They have always been popular with the public and eagerly sought after whenever they appeared . |
| 17 | The day after tomorrow they 'll wake up to find themselves in Madeira . ’ |
| 18 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 19 | Agony aunt Claire Rayner said last night : ‘ People are often despairing — especially in the cases of offspring whose ageing parents fear they will not be properly looked after when they have gone . |
| 20 | They wan na be looked after when they 're sick an' 'ave proper education fer their kids . |
| 21 | Yeah , because of suddenly they 're |
| 22 | If politicians came to the conclusion that education was too important to be left to the educators , bear in mind the massive input of public resources , education 's failure to demonstrate significant improvement of standards , poor marketing , uncertain professional leadership and the fact that every year youngsters leave school ignorant of much they might reasonably be expected to know and lacking skills that could have been acquired in 11 years of schooling . |
| 23 | They use it a lot more than other words that are in the dictionary but no one 's ever heard of so they want to get usage . |
| 24 | the earths it comes out of so they 're selling it by the bottle in Germany . |
| 25 | Everything was er so much more difficult than it , than it is today and er things were not sort of disposed of like they are now . |
| 26 | cos in New York they sort of like they have a chat and the wo they 've got some nice looking bird , right , and some sort of normal bloke off the street and they just sort of talk about New York and show lots of pictures of it |
| 27 | no sort of well they do n't do anything do they ? |
| 28 | They , they wan na get shot of well they 've have to change their policies I think ! |
| 29 | If she can get that out of here they could find out what 's wrong with her , but it wo n't come . |
| 30 | ‘ At the end of BST they will get an hour back so at the end of the day it will all even out , ’ he said . |