Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] they [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new deep house night opens its doors on Aug 28 at The Podium , but Work has a twist — members can enter their names on a database so that any fellow worker looking for a singer , dancer , or whoever can access them and offer them a job . |
| 2 | Or they would rob them or threaten to execute them . |
| 3 | Now he must either spend countless valuable minutes retrieving the escaped marbles , or he could ignore them and leave Vic to reach his own conclusions . |
| 4 | If they say black cards you say ‘ Good , so I will keep them and take the red cards away ’ . |
| 5 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 6 | I was actually going to give to you Sue , so that you could test them but I understand you 've already got some new ones ? |
| 7 | And they would be looking for a bed for the night and it would be in the old hay shed that we would put them but there would n't be a problem . |
| 8 | Yeah , well I think that we ought to get them or somebody to put a retraction , I mean we dare n't do it ourselves , but I think in next month 's |
| 9 | Our minds naturally associate people , places and events with past experiences so that we can stereotype them and decide whether they are good or bad for us . |
| 10 | The Buddha of Suburbia is a jaunty unambitious novel — a far cry , doubtless , from those early works , which Kureishi incinerated ‘ for fear that anybody would read them and know things about me ’ . |
| 11 | Their wings are often swept forward slightly although they can close them and dive at tremendous speeds ( Figure 9 ) . |
| 12 | They wanted to do lots of different ads so that they can vary them and the public wo n't get bored . ’ |
| 13 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 14 | The verses seem to be saying that the disciples understand because they have been given the secrets of the mystery of the kingdom but everybody else is taught in parables so that it will confuse them and prevent them coming into the kingdom . |
| 15 | The gunman holding children hostage at a school in Paris has broken off negotiations with a threat that he 'll kill them and himself if his demand for twelve million pounds is not met . |
| 16 | Lloyds Bank released the bills back to him so that he could sell them and thereby obtain the money to pay off the loan from the Bank . |
| 17 | ‘ He only needs things to be left in the same place so he can find them and he 's fine , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Yeah , all I 've got to do then is send , send it in and I 'll phone them and say well can I cash it up and still on the club and they 'll say yes but I 'll have to get up and get round there tomorrow then |
| 19 | ‘ Have the bills sent to me , and I shall settle them and deduct the monies when the time comes . ’ |
| 20 | And erm so we started the Brownies and I could train them and we used to have such fun together , you know |
| 21 | Dressed up and I used to take them and I used to leave them in the kitchen and the the head kitchen maid er the head kitchen maid w went and took them in . |
| 22 | And and it is also perhaps distracted er attention from the interesting disagreements also taking place at the Labour party conference this week between the one more pushes , if I might describe them and the hard liners who believe you 've got to be radical . |
| 23 | Well , I know you have seen them already , but if I could call them and … ’ |
| 24 | I would like green eyes if I could have them but it 's just a passing thought , not a real obsession . |
| 25 | But then again yo you 're you 're advised against going over the speed limit that most people do , I do I I tell yo like I said I 'm not a saint cos like a couple of times when I was first driving , especially in my fucking sprint cos it was a quick car I used to drive up people 's arses and wait until I could overtake them and if they did slow down that used to incense me and I 'd fucking , I 'd go right up there arse and then probably try and cut them up when I went , overtook them and I s fucking learnt , I got a I had a couple of close calls like , people are slamming brakes on and stuff |
| 26 | They 'd come and ask you for advice and you 'd tell them and help them all you could . |
| 27 | And she used to dress them and they was ready to put in the oven and with these chickens . |
| 28 | She did not throw clothes away if she could mend them or alter them to make them more fashionable . |
| 29 | But if you can produce them and like to do it , and if they fit the particular sort of book you are writing , well and good . |
| 30 | And I think they have a tremendous contribution to make , and I think what we ought to be doing with er people who retire , it 's not to say the end of their working life , and therefore they 're on the scrap heap , but that it 's a new stage in life and we ought to honour them and respect them and I think , give them some er affirm where they 're at , and use them much more as the guardians of wisdom and the guardians of the stories of the community , and use them in that sort of way . |