Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [conj] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had two statements before us : Teddy Mayer 's of McLaren , who had asserted that drivers were ‘ just interchangeable light bulbs : you plug them in and they do the job ’ and Bernard Ecclestone 's classic , ‘ no driver is worth more than $25,000 ‘ . |
| 2 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
| 3 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 4 | See they ai n't got the concrete roads down to put them down when they bought the farm off Sam years later . |
| 5 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 6 | He looked her over as they reached the gallery , pausing at the top of the stairs . |
| 7 | The markets forced it down because they doubted the government 's willingness to keep interest rates high in a sagging economy — and who can blame them ? |