Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [pron] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We did some homework on their side but we know them so well it was hardly needed . ’ |
| 2 | er well there 's one there that 's a continual er it is American , well it 's an American style programme but I mean they advertise all kinds of things from all |
| 3 | Well , I was bailed on a charge of fraud but I feel they 've got something else up their sleeve . |
| 4 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
| 5 | No what happens is you buy the beach hut but you rent them on , you rent the plot |
| 6 | Cayard was recalled instantly by the committee but it took them 40 seconds to hoist the French recall signal , by which time they were well up the track . |
| 7 | Yeah well I me and Margaret should be in the hall but I think they 've assumed that there will be less |
| 8 | His enemies called for peace but he brought them death . |
| 9 | Well thing is that I mean a lot of these jobs , I mean er yeah they recognize that , I mean a lot of them yo they think you 're as thick as shit and treat you like you 're as thick as shit just because you 're doing a thick as shit job but you know they ca n't necessarily give you more |
| 10 | Clutching a handkerchief to his own face , he felt blood over his eye but he assured them it was superficial , and gave instructions which were followed to the letter . |
| 11 | so er that 's old is it Shepherd and Metzler No it 's not in this case but I think they invented the task , yes they did good old Shepherd and Metzler |
| 12 | Melanie wondered if she would have to take a tray to the basement but it seemed they had their own gas ring down there and brewed up continually for themselves . |
| 13 | Usually very very pessimistic and always look always look on the on the pessimistic side of things you know all that sort of stuff but you know they are a very important part of the group , you know given given their space to be like they are you know do n't take them too seriously remember their job is to criticise and their job is to pull things to pieces . |
| 14 | Increased accessibility : sur-titles , says Rodney Milnes , are the invention of the devil but I find they enhance my intellectual and emotional enjoyment . |
| 15 | A spokesperson from Essex County Council said the council was looking into planting trees on the verge but it considered they were likely to be less effective there . |
| 16 | Evidently I did not see fighters go down that day but I know they did but this was a first realization as if there was somebody up there to kill me and I guess this is the point at which you realize that you are going to kill them before they kill you and all of a sudden we are in combat all our lives and we take a complete change in outlook from everything because up to now everything had been practise and training just for this except we did not have that realization that they are there to kill us , who 's gon na be killed first ? |
| 17 | Kane 's first category of race-linked physical and physiological characteristics , then , is in doubt from the start but he delineates them as follows : proportionately longer leg lengths , narrower hips , wider calf bones and greater arm circumference among black athletes than among whites ; a greater ratio of tendon to muscle among blacks , giving rise to the condition typically termed double-jointedness , a relatively dense bone structure ; a basically elongated body structure among black athletes , enabling them to function as more efficient heat dissipators relative to whites ( 1971 , pp.74–5 ) . |
| 18 | My own brother , Leonard , died from Bright 's disease — that 's a kidney complaint but I think they call it by a different name these days . |
| 19 | It 's like sugar but it kills them . |
| 20 | ‘ It is an enormous relief but I think they have been very clever . ’ |
| 21 | If you apply the same consequences to both children — say , time-out — not only are you relieved of being judge and jury but you encourage them to avoid fights by cooperating or settling differences peacefully . |
| 22 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 23 | He said it 's every single way because that 's there must be a reason but he said they 're not getting priority so we 'll be left that he said |
| 24 | And he got the pi and then held the pig and I never was at the actual killing but I know they did er Then they cut its throat you see ? |
| 25 | I it , it was , it was alright f for people wh who were used to that sort of thing but I mean they had n't all the mechanization in the mines then that they have now . |
| 26 | And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know ! |
| 27 | Well apart the radio but I expect they 're gon na a radio of sorts you know ? |
| 28 | Kunstavisen reports in its March/April number that not only did many artists protest because they were not on the list but one contacted them to say that he had lost the possibility of a big exhibition because he had not been included . |
| 29 | Erm and the limit was five thousand pounds for one year but I think they only pay half the fees or something of whatever course it is . |
| 30 | er , it 's only er breakfast but I believe they 're very good breakfasts |