Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb base] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next thing is to go out on the road and into people 's homes and offices , where they 've written us letters saying they want to get fit . ’ |
| 2 | Where they 've got their van sited it is |
| 3 | For a band now irritated by most dance music — ‘ most of it 's cack , I hate going into bars where they 've got it blaring out from everywhere , you ca n't hear yourself think ’ — and uncomfortable with the accoutrements of clubbing — ‘ I ca n't stand being under strobes no more , do me head in , make me lose my balance ’ — it was inevitable the Mondays would rake up their rock roots , ‘ mature ’ their sound and make a major musical transition . |
| 4 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |
| 5 | A well-established tradition holds owners to be morally entitled to their property where they have obtained it by way of an uncoerced transfer from someone who received it in a similar manner , subject to the property having been originally taken into private ownership by a legitimate process of acquisition . |
| 6 | In tropical America , agoutis ( Dasyprocta punctata ) , like squirrels , scatter-hoard seeds , including those of the Brazil nut , but there is no evidence that they remember specifically where they have buried them . |
| 7 | But when you spend it when you 're spending your income you 're not accumulating your capital , so this person in five years time , although they 've had their income which may vary between seven and thirteen percent , their ten thousand is still ten thousand pounds , and obviously that would have devalued in real terms against inflation , which is the other problem . |
| 8 | They are now threatening to withdraw compensation from us although they have given us no written guarantee that our lands are free from contamination ’ , he said in 1976 . |
| 9 | He did so well he has since won three England caps as a midfielder and Liverpool decided he was the man they wanted , although they have tried him back in his striking role in recent games . |
| 10 | Spurs had come into this match unbeaten in their previous eight matches , and although they have improved their League standing , the cup competitions remain their best hope of success . |
| 11 | I would be very surprised if a property on at nine fifty would be dropped much below nine hundred because , obviously they have a , they have a certain that they need to get and I I 'd be surprised if they 'd go sort of much below fifty pounds less a month than they 've advertised it for . |
| 12 | So many returners admit to stage fright at the beginning of a re-entry programme , only to find that the expectations of managers and colleagues are much more realistic than they have given them credit for . |
| 13 | A decline in activity may now come about if both accord the region less strategic value than they have given it hitherto . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been fortunate , too , because Mike 's sister Judy has a three-year-old , and now a new baby , and lots of our friends have babies , so they 've lent us things and also been great with advice about their best buys . |
| 15 | ‘ They 're not using it any more so they 've said I can use it for canteen stuff . |
| 16 | It 's , what they 've done is they 've closed er er , erm branch , an office massive office in London and they 've moved them all over to Leeds because they ca n't get the people to take jobs in London so they 've transferred it all to Leeds , and erm there 's a chance of erm getting promotion , well , a very good chance of getting promotion down there . |
| 17 | Jeremy Irons and his wife Sinead Cusack want their son Sam to learn French , so they 've sent him to study in France . |
| 18 | ‘ So they 've summoned me , have they ? ’ |
| 19 | to go and do something in Dundee , so they 've advertised his job |
| 20 | back and they were disgusted so they 've taken them down and gon na make me a complete new set . |
| 21 | She realized she had missed an opportunity to needle Brian and went on , ‘ Tim says drop-outs are the fault of a cynical and uncompassionate administration who 're buggered if they 're going to waste good money on a load of lunatics , so they 've slung them out and turned the asylums into conference centres for advertising agencies . ’ |
| 22 | national vocation I I really think that it 's worse because they 've not , whereas when I was a trainee you had your six weeks on produce , your six weeks on whatever in the branch of that now and they did n't have that , they have n't got any training plan , so they 've got nothing to say well career , branch branch need here and I need to be here and I need to be here . |
| 23 | it 's erm , please leave your name and number , and the postal area code and I could n't figure out what they meant , your post code , or what , anyway , I sort , I , I left this long pause , shut your face I left this really long pause , and it just like clicked off before I could leave my phone number , so they 've got my , my answer and my names , but they have n't got my phone number , so I thought well , that 's not much good , they ca n't phone you , can they ? |
| 24 | If they were here , 1 am sure that they would support new clause S. The reason that they are not here is because they feel that they would have to vote for new clause 5 if they were here , so they have absented themselves from the debate . |
| 25 | When I am sitting up there working with the librarian , pupils will come trotting in with little notes from teachers saying " I have been sent in to ask for books on … " and off they will go for that lesson which is what she wanted , so they have achieved it . |
| 26 | But the , the link between sex and reproduction is always likely to be more critical to a woman So , so , so you see th th the point I 'm making is these insights seem to me to be to have a kind of relevance to er women 's experience of sex that is some ways greater than it is to male males can you know once they 've done their fertilizing work , they 're , they 're really through as far as erm as far as biology is concerned , not perhaps as far as social . |
| 27 | it usually , it only takes a day once they 've received it , if that 's alright ? |
| 28 | cos once they 've thawed they go soft |
| 29 | It 's going through that system , and once they 've given us the go ahead then we can go to the solicitor in Lancaster . |
| 30 | They 'll promise you the earth to get you to come across , then treat you like dirt once they 've satisfied their maternal cravings . |