Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb base] they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They let all the big companies go round digging holes in the road , and when people fall in and complain they say it 's all for their own good , and after a while they hope the people will revolt so they can give the police guns and thin out the population , and then they 'll have a police state — which is what they 've always wanted — and the rich will be able to live in peace . ’ |
| 2 | I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it . |
| 3 | Maybe I 'd better wing out there right away and have them fix me up with a temporary . |
| 4 | And I 'll touch it later when let them do it ! |
| 5 | If we fuck up , then we go back , hold our hands out and let them smack us . |
| 6 | ‘ Security in some schools has to be 24 hours a day to keep kids out and stop them burning them down . ’ |
| 7 | Likes to set things out and make them go you know |
| 8 | I 've found that after a few years experience you can tell , you just can you know ; which even if you 've got a group with two very imaginative kids in , who can play instruments really well , and the others sit back and let them do it , then you might give the difference between two out of ten and nine out of ten for effort in the same group , but for the overall effect they would then get the same mark for the group thing . |
| 9 | It 's it 's not worth a marriage no more because the C S A and because of people like them sat there that think they know it all . |
| 10 | ‘ After chapel we used always to go down there and watch them battle it out , ’ he says . |