Example sentences of "[pron] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , , I they never give you date , yeah . |
| 2 | ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Only a really special person would help out someone they barely knew like this . ’ |
| 4 | However , in this small , shabby , smoke-filled room visitors could be sure of finding someone they either knew or wanted to talk to . |
| 5 | The difference this time is that it is someone they personally loved and therefore it takes on an importance quite different from any event they may have witnessed before . |
| 6 | ‘ Surely none would marry someone they actually hated . |
| 7 | Somebody they just fetched out of the street ? |
| 8 | In the case of the Kobuk Eskimos their object in working jade , which they even carried on while waiting for caribou to cross the river , was to obtain a ready supply of trade goods . |
| 9 | In this fashion , the Lugbara deity represents certain general phenomena and inescapable universal afflictions such as death ( which they also connect with witchcraft ) . |
| 10 | The position as to confidentiality is even clearer in the case of stockbrokers who can not be contractually bound to disclose to their private clients inside information disclosed to the brokers in confidence by a company for which they also act . |
| 11 | Omar al-Bashir , concluded a two-day official visit to Kampala during which Uganda and Sudan signed a non-aggression treaty , in terms of which they also agreed not to allow any hostile armed activity in common border areas . |
| 12 | A child grows up in a community in which people moan and cry when they are in pain ( as he does himself ) ; in which they also use expressions like ‘ I 'm in pain' and ‘ I 've got toothache ’ ; in which others react sympathetically to their linguistic , as to their non-linguistic , expressions of pain ; and so he comes to use the linguistic expression himself in the place of the natural expression . |
| 13 | It might therefore seem a rather odd choice as a label , but Wimsatt and Brooks 's reason for using it is that they view these analogical or metaphorical relationships as producing effects essentially similar to those for which the word irony is more commonly used , and which they also see as an important part of poetry . |
| 14 | The house was broken into in the early hours of Friday morning and the intruders carried off the rock and pop CDs in a Head sports bag which they also stole from the house . |
| 15 | The commission of crimes against them will have the effect of diminishing their positive freedom , to which they also have a right ; for example crimes of injurious violence reduce the victims ' freedom to operate physically free from pain , while property offences will deprive them of resources and thereby remove their freedom to choose to act in ways which require the use of those resources . |
| 16 | However , what this assumes is that the police never make decisions to de-politicise crime , which they plainly do in their endeavour to argue that many assaults by whites upon black are not racist in their intent , merely matters of public order . |
| 17 | Even the schools were built in the corners of crowded burial grounds , or over public sewers into which they slowly sank . |
| 18 | He pointed at the house and ordered them to go towards it , which they obediently did . |
| 19 | Many of the early experimenters spent a lot of time trying to improve the tiny transparent crystals they had made — crystals which they erroneously believed were only silica or other hard but non-diamond crystals . |
| 20 | As early as the 13th century , they owned lands at Dalrymple village , from which they probably took their name . |
| 21 | They were all dressed in about three sets of clothing , each of which they probably slept in , and all had the ingrained grimy faces of people living without running water . |
| 22 | ( The examiners are asking you to show that you have a view and can justify it , whatever it is ; they are not asking to be attacked for holding the view outlined in the question , which they probably do n't hold anyway . ) |
| 23 | In the second year , students choose from units which permit them to study national and regional histories of which they probably have some prior knowledge , as well as less familiar societies and cultures . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , on this VS which they probably have n't heard of and would n't bother to solo , Denis and I have one more pitch to climb . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , they will need to address pupils in English , and that will call on a register of English with which they probably have little acquaintance despite their good overall common of the language . |
| 26 | In others the difficulty is to stop loquacious informants from pouring out an endless stream of words which they positively insist on having recorded . |
| 27 | They need it to finance new projects and which they ultimately hope those projects will bring in a profit on the capital employed . |
| 28 | Since 1970 , the media in this country have become very attached to the label , judging by the extent to which they increasingly use it . |
| 29 | To finance their more adventurous activities , banks would bid for investors ' money , competing with the other non-deposit-taking institutions which they increasingly resemble . |
| 30 | the objects to which men give most preference , their ideals , proceed from the same perceptions and experiences as the objects which they most abhor , and … they were originally only distinguished from one another through slight modifications … |