Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [v-ing] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone is given too much change in a supermarket , for instance , they might keep the money claiming that they need it much more than the supermarket does and , anyway , nobody would find out . |
| 2 | We circulated a letter to various individuals in the field asking if they had any unpublished records we might need . |
| 3 | Such people may believe that staying on friendly terms with the salesperson and at the end of the interview stating that they will think over the proposal is the best tactic in a no-buy situation . |
| 4 | Dealers would then whisper appalling things into the telephone knowing that they would not be monitored . |
| 5 | The proportion reporting that they thought people were healthier now than in their parents ' time decreased with age , from 78 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 years to 67 per cent of those aged 85 years and over ( Victor 1990a ) . |
| 6 | The proportion responding that they thought they could trust the United Sates " a great deal " was 62% ( up from 45% in 1975 ) , a figure not matched by any other country : the closest was Norway , which 37% thought they could trust to the same extent . |
| 7 | The percentage reporting that they sometimes felt lonely increased from 10 per cent of males and 16 per cent of females aged 70 — 74 to 18 per cent and 27 per cent respectively of those aged 85 + ( Victor 1987 ) . |
| 8 | The percentage reporting that they always felt lonely showed little change with age . |
| 9 | For example , the percentage reporting that they had had a cold or flu in the previous month showed little change with age . |
| 10 | ‘ I heard them in the shop talking and they said you had taken her out . ’ |
| 11 | They will tell me they can ‘ see ’ the theme emerging as they interview a person . |
| 12 | ‘ A lot of people fell around the place laughing when they heard about the middle-aged poet bit , ’ he says . |
| 13 | 25–8 A party of young and old people came to Port Ellen from Ardbeg for the day knowing that they should return on the " Islay " on its way to Port Askaig . |
| 14 | And er within a few months we 'd got the thing going till they were blowing out , and we were making it hand over fist you see ? |
| 15 | We were originally going to do two shows at Knebworth , but we had to cancel one because they figured it would be too hard — we could n't get the trucks there on time and get the show going when they wanted to do it . |
| 16 | Charles Eaton , director of the pilot needle exchange programme and now a city health official , agrees : ‘ There is no evidence from any syringe exchange scheme anywhere in the world suggesting that they encourage people to inject . |
| 17 | Any member of staff who sat down at his or her desk and wept with sorrow at the pain they are constantly having to encounter in their customers ' lives , anyone who wept with frustration at their helplessness in the face of the world suffering that they perceive would be considered mentally unstable . |
| 18 | ‘ Using Moorsbus is one way of the public saying that they care for the future of the moors . |
| 19 | increase in the number of those in temporary accommodation , but is the Minister suggesting that they are not homeless ? |
| 20 | there was a letter in the Gazette seeing that they had er the petrol had gone up and |
| 21 | They kept the chapel going and they cleaned it as well . |
| 22 | The application of natural justice to preliminary hearings or investigations has tended to produce polarised arguments : the public body arguing that procedural rules have no place in the context of such hearings or investigations , and the individual asserting that they should apply in their full vigour . |
| 23 | Such employees are designated ‘ business users ’ and assigned a special code on the system indicating that they are out on business . |
| 24 | The Marquee crowd — a muddle of college indie kids and rock fans in assorted Gunners chic — react with an equal mix of abandon and pose , the kids at the front looking like they 've got heads on springs as they crowd round the monitors . |
| 25 | They passed the time chatting as they knitted or mended . |
| 26 | In April , the French and the Scots embarked on a polite exchange of congratulatory diplomatic compliments , with the French claiming that they had attacked Boulogne only for the sake of the Scots . |