Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [verb] they [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll do them when you 're erm cos I meant to do them and I forgot all about it . |
| 2 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 3 | For non-metals if you try to hit them and beat them into sheets or if you try to stretch them you get ? |
| 4 | Please if you take tickets for any event , let the organiser know if you have sold them or return them promptly . |
| 5 | Such themes are there if you choose to identify them but they are woven through a tightly-written narrative which will hold you from beginning to end . |
| 6 | If he drew a chair or a pair of boots he managed to convey the effort of production that went into them , as if he had shaped them and fitted them together himself . |
| 7 | and erm , he 's got in the , in the fabric one he 's got double doors and all the rolls of carpet and erm , he 's got a table in there and obviously to make a cup of tea , got a couple of beds in there cos he 's sold them and it 's like a big warehouse and erm all around there there 's a big concreted area , you know , and er all these units and that 's where we , we reckon it is . |
| 8 | The larger and richer farmers often overlook the problems of their weaker colleagues and evolve policies which do little , if anything to help to resolve them but , which are , none the less , promoted as being in the national interest . |
| 9 | ‘ I felt guilty enough to want to help the marriage succeed because I 'd introduced them and had n't thought to warn Rachel , mainly because I did n't find him attractive myself and he 'd never come across as the great seducer with me , and I knew that if it did n't work , it would turn out to be a lifelong trap for her . |
| 10 | Both philology and Catholicism are here presented as ‘ languages ’ which Julia is unable to master because she wants to question them and change them rather than accept their inherent systematicity . |
| 11 | He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself — creatures whose life , on its miniature scale , will be qualitatively like His own , not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His . |
| 12 | The number of people to whom he is a friend , if not because he has met them but because they know of the good works that he has done not only in Britain but throughout the world , must run into many hundreds of thousands . |
| 13 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 14 | AB still appears shorter than BC even after I have measured them and found them to be equal . |
| 15 | Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it |
| 16 | This is the Celtic family I have always longed for , complete with live fires , family feuds , squirming freckle-nosed children a-playing in the next room , suggestive sighing and eyeing between the sisters , the indisputable unity created by the sick mother/grandmother in hospital , the indisputable union of songs you always know whether you want to remember them or not . |
| 17 | On 4 August 1989 solicitors acting on behalf of the relatives wrote to the coroner repeating the facts as I have summarised them and requesting that an inquest be held to inquire whether or not the death had been caused or aggravated by failures of the emergency services to respond to the calls and to attend in proper time . |
| 18 | It 's a terrible thing to see someone unhappy when you want to help them and you ca n't . |
| 19 | It also does n't have to be a particularly fast drive because spreadsheets read the data into memory once when you start using them and after that the speed of the disk has no effect . |
| 20 | Miss Evans did n't eat with them but stood by the table like a waitress in a restaurant , taking the plates to the sink as soon as they 'd cleared them and sweeping up crumbs round their chairs before they had finished drinking their milk . |
| 21 | To use an analogy from short sight : people who wear glasses are relieved of the effects of their short sight for as long as they continue to wear them and for as long as they remember that there are still some things ( such as seeing clearly underwater ) that they can not do even if they are wearing glasses . |
| 22 | He put the papers down when he had finished them and looked at her long and steadily . |
| 23 | When Jesus had returned to his Father the apostles did as he had told them and returned to the city . |