Example sentences of "[noun pl] and they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 2 | And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto |
| 3 | My friends are Liverpool fans and they say they can get me tickets for the KOP , but no way am I standing with a bunch of idiots . |
| 4 | There are women who live with their husbands and they hate their husbands and do it once a month so their Amex cards do n't get cancelled . |
| 5 | Only a few women were on equal terms with their husbands and they recognised their relationships as exceptional . |
| 6 | you know , where I belong , I , I do n't quite honestly do n't really like Harlow New Town any more , I al I did up until about oh eight or nine years ago I thought it was a great place and all , all the cockneys that said , you know , oh I 'd love to be back in London , I thought they were barmy , you know to live in London the di the difference is , I mean my husband 's a cockney and he would n't , would never , well now he would never go back to London you know , it 's a dump , he , he likes Harlow , but er I think I do n't like it now because it 's expanded so much , you know when we , when we were first here , mind you when we first moved in it was ever so difficult for us kids because , there , there was the Old Town kids versus the New Town kids and they hated us , they really |
| 7 | ‘ They could see I was taking it easier on some of the sessions and they told me so . |
| 8 | I guess they were animals and they had their rights . |
| 9 | I looked into his eyes and they reminded me of the saying ‘ The lights were on but there was nobody home . |
| 10 | The only time I do that is when I 'm talking to journalists and they ask me questions about the past . |
| 11 | American guests are famous for deep ties and they hope they will consider themselves at home as long as they are in this country . |
| 12 | Knight bannerets of the king 's household stopped them but Cranston muttered a few words and they let him by . |
| 13 | Superficially , CAB workers have a twofold task : they interview clients and they supply them with information and advice . |
| 14 | Agencies exist in Scotland to find locations for film and video companies and they know what facilities we can offer , on a commercial basis . |
| 15 | Our surveys show employees are more and more satisfied with the communications they receive from their companies and they believe they understand more now about what is going on around them . |
| 16 | They take part in activities , games and crafts and they repeat their good behaviour at home . ’ |
| 17 | the only reason that police get away with drink driving is cos half the buggers are Masons and they give them the old funny hand shake and its oh on your way sir |
| 18 | So I went out to get some fish and chips and they called me NIGGGGGAH ! ’ |
| 19 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 20 | Mcduff came with him to sit in the shelves and they took it in turns to keep watch . |
| 21 | Both have busy working lives and they realised they were seeing less and less of each other and spending their one day together , Sunday , in a daze . |
| 22 | There are always smiles , no problems in their lives and they spend their time trying to please others . |
| 23 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
| 24 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 25 | They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end . |
| 26 | If they 're in here working all day and everyday and they see the other girls taking exams and they know I 'm going to make them work , quite often they 'll take the exams because there 's no point in not taking them , whereas I think if they were at home they would not have the same incentive . |
| 27 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 28 | ‘ We have people here who are QCs and clergymen and they feel they have to be very careful , although they are doing nothing wrong . ’ |
| 29 | Cos they had the , the expensive yarns and they produced them on these machines with very little waste . |
| 30 | Belfast DUP councillor Sammy Wilson advocated internment , claiming security information showed only about 12 people were capable of assembling the weekend bombs and they kept themselves ‘ so clean there is little chance of getting evidence against them ’ . |