Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll do whatever they want to do . ’ |
| 2 | who speaks to you , er it 's easy enough to just er have the microphone handy that they do n't see and just switch the tape on and I 'll record what they 're saying , come away , see , do it secretly like that , they do n't have to know really that they 're on tape and it does n't really matter , I mean the people who will listen to these tapes are er anonymous you know |
| 3 | Now a bad habit that I got into , right , a customer will be talking to me and I do n't know if you 've noticed it , I wo n't let them finish what they 're saying , I 'll jump in because I 'll know what they 're asking me |
| 4 | I 'll see what they say and if agreeable then yes |
| 5 | I 'm here , what , wait I 'll see what they 're doing , what are you doing boys ? |
| 6 | Yeah I 'll see what they say , you know , erm I 'll John , he had a set of erm high backed reproduction erm what do they call them now ? |
| 7 | I 'll go back down then I 'll see what they 'll both do . |
| 8 | ABC tracked me down after seeing some of the papers in my case and wanted to know if I could confirm what they 'd been told . |
| 9 | They talked a lot to each other , and sometimes I could hear what they said , even when they were in another room . |
| 10 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 11 | I could get someone they do that for nothing . ’ |
| 12 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 13 | I could n't do that , I mean , I had responsibilities and if I had time I 'd remember what they were . |
| 14 | I used to say what they wanted to hear . |
| 15 | And I used to tell them they were good at it . |
| 16 | They were the faces of two entirely separate people , and try as I would to superimpose them they would n't focus into a single man for whom I had a single , straightforward feeling . |
| 17 | Cos I would n't I would hate it they 've got no privacy . |
| 18 | I would imagine what they 're doing is raising the roof and not putting in the second storey . |
| 19 | I can tell them they will never , ever return to Barnet while I am chairman if they are captured . ’ |
| 20 | I can tell what they are walking on , maybe ; perhaps whether they are going upstairs or downstairs . |
| 21 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 22 | You do not know Italian men yet , my dear , but I can tell you they are all — without exception — unbearably vain . |
| 23 | ‘ They stretch most marvellously , like these are doing now , but I can assure you they never come off ! ’ |
| 24 | Now how they 're gon na send them I do n't know , but I can assure you they will send them in a hurry . |
| 25 | They say my accent is 'orrible , but at least I can understand what they 're saying on the pitch and suss out their Machiavellian little games . ’ |
| 26 | ’ I can understand what they were doing , ’ he says ’ They were obviously thinking of me . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not the sort — I 'm big and strong , and I can take everything they throw at me on my broad shoulders . |
| 28 | I can read what they said about you . |
| 29 | I can see what they mean about women softening you up . |
| 30 | We 'd then pull out a sandwich and a cake , put it on the tray : nobody could see what they were eating , and we 'd pocket the difference . |