Example sentences of "[det] [conj] they [verb] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 2 | Living alone , although a very real care problem for many dementia sufferers because of the need some of them have for continual safeguarding , might not in itself be a problem for all if they had sons or ( more realistically ) daughters living nearby who could help with their care . |
| 3 | There is support for such a pragmatic concept of reference in Strawson 's ( 1950 ) claim that ‘ 'referring ’ is not something an expression does ; it is something that someone can use an expression to do' ; and in Searle 's view that ‘ in the sense in which speakers refer , expressions do not refer any more than they make promises or give orders ’ ( 1979 : 155 ) . |
| 4 | Everything is the same except they have electricity and water . |
| 5 | Rovers have never been the same since they knocked Newcastle and Wimbledon out of the Centenary Trophy . |
| 6 | It was as if he was playing an elaborate game , and had to wait there until it was finished ; they did the same when they played Roundheads and Cavaliers in the old quarry . |