Example sentences of "[pron] they really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the company 's parent is the American Mark IV Audio group , whose brands include Electro-Voice and Gauss , so that should give you some idea of the league in which they really play . |
| 2 | He declines to comment on the chances of the rest of the team , saying only that all have lacked the intensive training , with a sojourn in Japan , which they really needed . |
| 3 | No ruler , therefore , could force his more powerful subjects to accept innovations which they really disliked . |
| 4 | In the two I 've just mentioned you will find a character who lives many years without the benefit of some vital knowledge , something they really needed to know . |
| 5 | There is sometimes a fine line between encouraging residents to take part in an activity and making them do something they really do not want to do . |
| 6 | Both Michael and Carrie do not use their TK powers to cause a knife to kill someone , instead they controlled the death as if it was something they really wanted . |
| 7 | So they actually took a very active role against it , and had been the allies of people like the National Consumers ' League on other issues , but on this one they really differed , and were one of the major blocks to passing the legislation . |
| 8 | All true things , but nothing they really want to know . |
| 9 | In the way of people who have a lot to do but nothing they really want to do , I developed various minor ailments after Oliver was born . |
| 10 | nothing they really need |
| 11 | POWERS — because IF WE LET THEM they really DO have the power to hurt us and damage our lives . |
| 12 | But you know they they really need to watch how much part time work they are doing because it could mean that their pension will be suspended if they did work too much . |
| 13 | She has such a good head on her shoulders , ’ they had said , when what they really meant was that whilst Paula was a beauty , she was really very plain but they had to find something good to say about her . |
| 14 | What they really like is talking about it , talking about others doing it , and feeling mighty relieved when their partner arrives home with a headache . |
| 15 | The students confide that what they really like is the outing , which gives them an excuse to escape from Dublin and meet the ‘ quality ’ . |
| 16 | Socrates is a teacher , but his function as he himself describes it is to uncover in the minds of those he teaches what they really know already , but have simply failed to recognise or make explicit . |
| 17 | What they really refer to and bring to expression is his meaning for us ; and their significance is to be grasped afresh , not by their simple repetition , but by returning behind them to the history of Jesus ' life and teaching , and to the message of his cross and resurrection . |
| 18 | Speaking on April 24 , ANC president Nelson Mandela said : " It is evident that what they really seek is the continued incumbency of the National Party even in the event that it loses the election . " |
| 19 | But when ‘ Happy Hour ’ cracked the Top Five , they had to hold a meeting to see if this was what they really wanted to do — they did , temporarily . |
| 20 | Snaps to send to the er the fathers and er boyfriends er at , at the front , that 's what they really wanted . |
| 21 | This was perhaps what they really had in common . |
| 22 | Their thing was that they must ask for more than what they really hoped to get . |
| 23 | Often , what someone says and what they really mean are two different things . |
| 24 | As one of the parents in the interviews described later says , ‘ When they say , you 're the experts , parents are experts , what they really mean is — you get on with that little bit over there , and we 'll get on with the really important stuff over here . ’ |
| 25 | What they really mean is that they can not find any acceptable community leadership to support . |
| 26 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 27 | I think they 'd say that they 'd like to see an officer in a car because they do n't see anybody , what they really mean they want to see somebody they can talk |
| 28 | The silly thing is there is no divide on here and the only thing I can suggest really , there is a divide symbol in the computer that we can drag out but to drag it out every time it 's too boring really so I 'll think we use this I do n't like using this , but you see this symbol here , that 's what they really use for divide , so if you do that and a couple spaces , people will learn that that means divide , it 's all we can do really |
| 29 | They last a day when they 're old look my mother what they really last a day . |
| 30 | A series of what came to be called ‘ prejudice sessions ’ , encouraged people across the business to say what they really thought about BP Oil — or thought they thought . |