Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb base] that [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one would call our battered brown book boxes decorative but when the PLANTS appear as they always do that morning of the year , their beauty and colour irradiate all around them . |
| 2 | That is , ’ he added morosely , ‘ until the ravens start pecking them , though they usually leave that bit for the last . |
| 3 | Other people tempted to rearrange borders for ethnic reasons ( Hungarians looking at western Romania , Greeks eyeing southern Albania , Russians glaring this way and that ) will have to go on making their own calculations about how much they really want that bit of the country next door , how tricky seizing it might be , and so on . |
| 4 | No one ever says some have been created and all the time they say there are lots of firms which have been created but they they never give that publicity at all ! |
| 5 | But the essays are most demanding and ultimately most productive when they too occupy that position of liminality between the discourses that uneasily constitute us and our knowledge of the world . |