Example sentences of "course they " in BNC.

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31 Of course they deserve reflection , even a special respect ; but they are not more fundamental than the chaos of history and the very various ordinary tasks of truthful thinking .
32 The answer is yes , of course they do .
33 During the next course they were faced by the representation of a ‘ man of warre ’ standing in fire ( associated with summer and the choleric humour ) ; and while consuming the third course they were confronted by the form of a man with a ‘ sikelle in his hande ’ standing in a river ( signifying water and the phlegmatic humour associated with autumn and harvest-time ) .
34 During the next course they were faced by the representation of a ‘ man of warre ’ standing in fire ( associated with summer and the choleric humour ) ; and while consuming the third course they were confronted by the form of a man with a ‘ sikelle in his hande ’ standing in a river ( signifying water and the phlegmatic humour associated with autumn and harvest-time ) .
35 Of course they were , thought Henry , they could n't give a toss about the poor bastard .
36 Of course they will inevitably suffer moments , even hours , of boredom .
37 Of course they 're respectably put on .
38 Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time .
39 Of course they will go through all the natural stages of refusal to believe what they have been told , of anger and of unhappiness .
40 Of course they not only reflect ageism in society but help to reinforce it and make it acceptable .
41 Of course they could read the monthly pack anyway but they do not see this as the same as actually having to insert each change in its correct place .
42 Of course they welcomed them in and exchanged news and questions .
43 Of course they could n't all be allowed to hide behind the columns of the nave or squat upon the font , and so the stewards took down the barriers and let them flood into my side .
44 Scotland was well endowed with its own gangsters in the '60s , but local sociology ensured that most of them never became famous , unless of course they spent a lifetime suffering in brutal prison cells and re-emerged as award-winning sculptors .
45 ‘ Of course they are .
46 ‘ Why of course they meet each other here , ’ Johnny declared , pretending he did not know what Luke was getting at .
47 No doubt in due course they would become equally vocal in their complaints about the French , but Thiercelin decided that so far as possible his own behaviour should be above reproach .
48 He would tell them some story — precisely what , he had not decided — and in due course they would check and discover its falsehood .
49 One of the difficulties of using politicians ' or military leaders ' diaries is that they are always likely to be personal justifications of their own actions at the time , and of course they give the impression that the whole of history consists of political intrigue or war .
50 Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that .
51 Of course they had some value , in an informal way , as precedents , but the precedent here might easily be not that non dubito is now admissible , but that some relaxation of wording is allowed where family property expectations are involved .
52 The most serious danger , however , is that the ‘ people bit ’ gets lost — plans often assume that people will work and prosecute them in logical , rational ways , which of course they do not .
53 They also had to survive the effect of a highly corrosive atmosphere at red heat and a hundred times the atmospheric pressure on Earth , and of course they had to be transparent to infrared radiation .
54 But both found themselves possessed of a consuming interest in astronomy , to which in due course they devoted the rest of their lives after disposing of other distractions — in Hubble 's case , his law , and national service in two world wars .
55 Of course they say he 's beneath us . ’
56 Of course they could always let it , but that seemed a mean and ungrateful way out .
57 ‘ Members of staff are encouraged to apply for any course they wish to attend ’ .
58 Of course they 're ready to fucking run .
59 ‘ Of course they would say that , would n't they ?
60 It entails a little body contact so do not choose someone who is too uptight and of course they must be wearing a jacket .
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