Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general world outside knew little or nothing of them . |
| 2 | His father had been killed two years before , and Mallachy had been known to refer to him , with his grim-eyed smile , as some sort of hero , a victim of the UFF or someone like them . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll go where none of them will ever suspect . |
| 4 | Or none of them . |
| 5 | And I was only one out the family of nine that volunteered to go and none of me brothers or none of them that was all keen on the sea , they did not seem to want to go . |
| 6 | The fifth , the seventh or none of them actually forbids it |
| 7 | They , or something like them , are admirable and important and we must strive to make them political realities , but they are not in themselves law and nothing is gained by pretending that they are law . |
| 8 | Consider , for example , the following extracts from recorded conversations , where the responses to an utterance indicate that for participants the utterance carried the implications ( or something like them ) indicated in brackets : ( 25 ) A : I could eat the whole of that cake [ implication : " I compliment you on the cake " ] B : Oh thanks ( 26 ) A : Do you have coffee to go ? [ implication : " Sell me coffee to go if you can " ] B : Cream and sugar ? ( ( starts to pour ) ) ( 27 ) B : Hi John A : How 're you doing ? |
| 9 | Or anything about them . |
| 10 | And I warn you , if any of my designs or anything like them turn up in the showroom at the House of Oliver I shall sue — and win the sort of damages that will put your little friend out of business for good . |
| 11 | Her Royal Highness wishes it to be known that she did not make the statements attributed to her or anything like them . |
| 12 | But even if we assume that it is sound at an abstract philosophical level , it would be extremely dubious to assert that this theory can justify our present practices of punishment or anything like them . |
| 13 | Indeed , we find it impossible to imagine a plausible moral philosophy which could justify our present penal practices or anything like them . |
| 14 | They both knew that nothing between them was diminished , their affection could stand the disappointment of their hoped-for treat . |
| 15 | ‘ Ball-breaker , ’ she said loudly , so loudly that everyone around them turned . |
| 16 | It is that someone among them has taken for himself some of the treasures of the city which were destined for God 's own sanctuary . |
| 17 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
| 18 | Maybe it wo n't , and my father says it 'll be over in six months anyway , so none of them will have to go . ’ |
| 19 | Just look at some of the people who have managed to hold down the job over the years : Tommy Docherty , Malcolm Allison , Bobby ‘ Rattling Dentures ’ Robson , most of the 1970–71 Leeds side ( although none of them for very long ) , Alan Ball and various sad , ex-midfield maestros who later became senior sales executives ( North Lincolnshire Region ) for foot-salve manufacturers and double glazing distribution companies . |
| 20 | The children grew up here too , and now ‘ although none of them actually lives here , they 're constantly popping in to visit ’ . |
| 21 | I tell her of my travels , although none of them is to a place you could easily find on a map , and of the people I have met . |
| 22 | ‘ We must let him in , ’ said Toby , although none of them wanted to see him . |
| 23 | As long as they 're in Pesth for the start of the journey south , they can do very much as they like , although none of them will be welcome at court . ’ |
| 24 | Personnel management could thus draw upon a wealth of experience , a skilled data processing staff and the fact that there already existed a library of programs although none of them were designed to access or process personnel records . |
| 25 | ‘ Although none of them , ’ he added , ‘ has so far proved to be a handicap . |
| 26 | ‘ They are all blonde and are all about the same size and although none of them are identical you would know they are from the same family . |
| 27 | But he had grown to understand that none of them could even pretend to these things . |
| 28 | Years later one of Cahiers ' most influential critics , Jean-Luc Godard , admitted that none of them had really believed in the theory , but had used it to draw attention to themselves . |
| 29 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 30 | do n't obsess yourself with the idea that none of them ( Unionist MPs ) understand the view of the man in the street … there is plenty of soundness in the party inside the House … and , easy as it is to call everyone inside Parliamentarians , and to assume that everyone outside are the only judges … you will have to get inside before you realize the difficulties of the situation , or the value of the cool-headed men who still represent the Unionist party in the House , and remain independent of Cabinet influence … |