Example sentences of "[verb] they and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was wise in my childishness even then , at the tender age of five , when most children are forever telling their parents and friends that they hate them and they wish they were dead . |
| 2 | Chris Fry must have heard them and he did his best by knocking in number four … |
| 3 | The winning ways of the Yorkshire pair , Deric and Ian Baxter , were explained laconically by son Ian : ‘ I belt them and he prods them . ’ |
| 4 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 5 | I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all |
| 6 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 7 | You do n't want them and they do n't want you . |
| 8 | Well you 've got your X there , you 've got your two Xs there , so you subtract them and you 've got |
| 9 | That was me and Desmond , we duplicated them and he printed them out for something like £150 each . |
| 10 | Ample proof indeed that it had recognized them and it realized that it was the entrance to its home . |
| 11 | They have no difficulty in imagining , for example , that there are thousands of people at large in Britain who are in the habit of aborting babies specifically for the purpose of eating them and they argue , ingeniously , that the lack of forensic evidence of satanic abuse can itself be read as proof of the existence of Satan . |
| 12 | I read them and they seem to be er a a direct record of what we 'd er agreed . |
| 13 | You have to drive them and they 've nothing on their heads . |
| 14 | Last year , remember , she did up some of the bedrooms and had them decorated , her brother decorated them and also she did the erm the tables , remember , she stripped back some tables and varnished them and she made a lovely job . |
| 15 | He does n't know how to wear them and he does n't know who to ask . |
| 16 | You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap . |
| 17 | And I got them and I did ! |
| 18 | I do n't where she got them and I did n't ask ! |
| 19 | It did n't knock them and they kept on playing . |
| 20 | He was n't the only one who was flummoxed ; Three fine calves had shown symptoms of acute gastric pain , I had treated them and they had died . |
| 21 | Fortunately , the British can now buy them and they form a basis for this kind of pizza . |
| 22 | I er I did n't buy them and he sent us three boxes and they came from the same warehouse . |
| 23 | He had so many wives that there was no counting them and the wives had so many young that even Frith could not count them and they ate the grass and the dandelions and the lettuces and the clover and El-ahrairah was the father of them all . " |
| 24 | I do n't trust them and I have n't for the seven and a half years I 've been inside jail . |
| 25 | Bits yes well Georgina round the corner apparently she has the lot new , because the bank moved them and they paid her and it was over four hundred pounds . |
| 26 | and I , I went home , phoned them and he said well , I got , there 's nobody there , try he said between five and six that 's his lunch hour , so I phoned , could n't get , oh no I , I thought well it 'll be too if I do n't get so I took it home |
| 27 | I designed them and I service them . |
| 28 | I used them and they worked for me . |
| 29 | Apparently he had been devising procedural systems for years , but nobody used them and everybody laughed at him . |
| 30 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |