Example sentences of "[pron] [art] [noun sg] and they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask them the time and they will invariably say something like , ‘ … it 's 4.41 ’ . |
| 2 | Am I a fool and they direct and right ? |
| 3 | But just one word of advice : if you offer someone a drink and they reply , ‘ No problem ’ , it actually means ‘ Yes , please ’ . |
| 4 | Give someone a job and they wo n't be tempted to steal cars . |
| 5 | I always say will you do me a favour and they shove it in box . |
| 6 | Yeah he give give me a booklet and they get a little booklet with it . |
| 7 | Some female handed them a hypo-bulb and they sprayed it into Jezrael 's face , and there was a physical paralysis leadening her without physical pain . |
| 8 | In the meantime , however , those long horns had become undesirable : drovers and slaughterers found them a nuisance and they compounded the drawbacks that had already become apparent in Bakewell 's breed . |
| 9 | to generate their own electricity , save them a bomb and they can sell some as well . |
| 10 | Nursing staff on some of those areas that we would pick out — those would be the intensive care units , the children 's units , the delivery suites and special care baby units — the nursing staff actually have control of permits which they can issue to relatives who are going to be here for a great length of time , and if they so feel that these relatives should n't be charged , they give them a permit and they park in a staff area at no charge whatsoever . |
| 11 | But there 's no need for them to be flabby — give them a stretch and they 'll soon shape up |
| 12 | a book that 's lasting them a term and they start getting trouble and he gets you know messed about |
| 13 | Give them a bell and they 'll send you their catalogues . |
| 14 | I was with them a week and they were kind to me . |
| 15 | They used to be Captain America , until Mr Marvel got the hump and Mr C&A took exception to their logo , now they 're called EUGENIUS , Kurt Cobain still likes them a lot and they may well be the new Nirvana of Vaselined Fannies . |
| 16 | I gave him the money and they told me to walk on and not look back because they would be following me . |
| 17 | The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice . |
| 18 | What happened was there was a burglar and er they went downstairs and they him over the head and then they put him a chair and they got the and he goes , what shall we , what shall we wrap him up in ? |
| 19 | But he gave her a hand and they sat side by side on the hot wood , pouring sea water , steaming . |
| 20 | Roberto waited for him every morning and they practised putting before playing their practice rounds together . |
| 21 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 22 | so he goes oh what the hell and they shovel tea down him and erm he starts throwing up and , what happened is that when he , when he gets like cut down they ta take him back to the room and they put them in their boxer shorts just sitting there and they 've wired up a mouse trap to like their their |
| 23 | Well what they had to do , they give us a receipt and they 're gon na send it through parcel post . |
| 24 | So we asked council if they could get us a place and they offered us a flat at first over the other side , I do n't know what walk it was on , and they says , You can stay there until we get an house for you . |
| 25 | Give us a fiver and they 're yours . |
| 26 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |