Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [conj] they [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of hatchets they have fans and as they pass through the soldiers ' camp they hit the soldiers and say : " There you are dead . " |
| 2 | However , males are sexual opportunists and if they come across another male 's female they will try to mate with her . |
| 3 | When you 've been around those guys a lot , you notice that they 're performers and that they perform for you . |
| 4 | Over the last fourteen years forty two million pounds and if they go on the way their going on and the way they 're talking it 's all gon na be for nicks nowt . |
| 5 | I like Alice in Wonderland because of the funny creatures and because they talk like people except it is not what you expect . |
| 6 | Yeah , no they just put pipes and that they run in there . |
| 7 | He says safety is paramount you have to make sure the balloons are at the same temperatures and that they keep at the same height . |
| 8 | When papers are destroyed deliberately , however , as they are in half of the cases of those claiming asylum at the ports , apparently to conceal the identification of the claimants and where they come from , that must adversely affect their credibility — unless they have a convincing explanation . |
| 9 | When men get to around forty they all seem to want to have affairs with younger women … but … they have usually forgotten how to go about ‘ chatting up ’ women and so they revert to pubescent memories and do incredibly stupid things like writing letters , or , even worse , poems to the unfortunate woman . |
| 10 | Many parents can not identify who wins these battles and when they think about it carefully admit that in reality the child mostly wins . |