Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next thing they know , all hell breaks loose upstairs : they find their best brass candlesticks snapped in half as if they were toothpicks , and the pot where their dinner is cooking on the hearth fills up with ashes . |
| 2 | They clung to one another as if they could never be parted again . |
| 3 | It is sometimes admitted that there are dangers in this in that they can take the wrong decisions , about new technology , or marketing a product , or about industrial relations , and it is implied that if these decisions lead to the wrong strategy then all will be lost for everyone . |
| 4 | No , well I 've meet quite a few since and they 're alright , they come and they go , but , I do n't know |
| 5 | If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse . |
| 6 | The Luttrell Psalter of 1338 illustrates a watermill complete with eel traps which look very much as if they have been made out of pliant willow stems . |
| 7 | For example , maintenance staff in a hotel can benefit in situations where they need to talk constantly to another member of staff located in a separate part of the hotel , such as while they are repairing and testing lighting or heating . |
| 8 | This meant that details of the Governors ' procedures , which might seem unimportant to outsiders — such as whether they watched a contested programme in advance of its first transmission — sometimes had great symbolic importance for the broadcasters . |
| 9 | There were significant age effects in both tasks on these items , and many of the children in the two younger age groups failed to distinguish between deductive and empirical items and treated them all as if they were empirical items . |
| 10 | We put some more in and they still have n't come . |
| 11 | It begins with two entranced dancers fencing with short bamboos , and ends with the dancers unconscious in the arms of the community , while the bamboos continue dancing on their own as if they were slivers of paper on an electrostatically charged diaphragm . |