Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother 's hands were very important — a distant importance for they scarcely ever touched her ( old Nan still did up her buttons ) , or she them ; but she felt a longing to kiss their faintly pink thumbs bite them perhaps , not to hurt , of course . |
| 2 | These western companies us — or we them . ’ |
| 3 | no need for them to go to Norwood Gardens or or they they specifically did n't go to Norwood Gardens they just went through did n't they ? |
| 4 | You do n't we were u we had to use the immersion did n't we cos w we moved in in the June and Lofty and Brian said well do n't have it done cos you 're not gon na use until August so we they did it August time for us so but we did n't use Servowarm cos it had blown up , they just disconnected it for us , so we used the ho the immersion heater |
| 5 | And er the question of the grants as well , I 'm opposed to the fact that they they 're going to if we do n't hurry up er , these two sites in Harlow will not , never be completed ! |
| 6 | And er this has always been the , the marvel of liturgical words , that they they pointed to the truth without being too definitive about the truth . |
| 7 | I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much . |
| 8 | Erm , but the training contradicted that and said that they they showed them how they should be used , but , but they should n't tackle a fire and they |
| 9 | If you had been any any where else on the hill you 'd have , would n't have a chance cos you could n't , you could n't follow the track that they they di they followed the day before . |
| 10 | And now that was the attitude that that that they they had that er a lot of them , not not everybody of course that just and she had this attitude , erm anybody that had lost their baby were lucky , you see . |
| 11 | And er that they they still , even when I have to do things , which are not very erm happy either for me or for them , erm I 'll just give the example of removing a child from |
| 12 | Erm the two lads on the flats , there 's two of them together , so that anything that they they meet or come up against , they can handle themselves . |
| 13 | I wonder if they 've got any here now that have n't got any time signatures , because that 's the other thing that they they like to give you . |
| 14 | Er so thank you for coming and do n't forget the candidates and and Thank John personally for for for being such a very good er candidate in in this erm hustings , er but do n't leave the candidates to You must fee The people in Salford and Eccles and in er Worsley , who get the Manchester Evening News , Er It 's it 's that they they put lo there 's local issues is n't there ? |
| 15 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 16 | that they they were n't as s solid as the older men let's say or was it because they had n't |
| 17 | Well I would n't actually say nobody 's excited about it I mean I think that the way these things happen is that they they 're gradual rather than er |
| 18 | No , well the key point is the key point is that they they have to have a period during which they have a track record of running those separate businesses , so that bidders will know the basis on which their bidding , now if if the franchising director , it 's entirely his decision , decides that er he 's not getting competitive enough bids or good enough bids , then yes British Rail would carry on , and this was clear right from the outset , would carry on running that particular |
| 19 | Well just the intonation and the and the way you would say that they they ca n't pick it up . |
| 20 | Right okay yeah the produ there in actual fact they 're , they 're relati , yep , you , you 're correct in that they they may well have risen , right , over that period erm but relative to manufacturing prices they have fallen erm let's just see if there might be some data in there er erm I thought I had some . |
| 21 | Cambridgeshire roads , and you know very well that they they do n't compare to Lincolnshire roads , County boundary . |
| 22 | I find it I find I must say I find it difficult to understand why you find it difficult to understand that they they chose that particular route . |
| 23 | So in in response you said that they they were for accuracy and I pointed out to you that that at site thirteen there was a sixty percent error from your forecast for three years hence , nineteen ninety six and what is in fact being achieved at this very moment in time . |
| 24 | And if they think that they they can help you out with that that extra half page to get four pages |
| 25 | trying to tell them that they they must of course need in fact to spend two and a half thousand pound on a full page in a medical practice booklet er for two years , you 've got ta be punchy on the phone have n't you Trevor ? |
| 26 | Just a small point , but I think when people arrive that they they perhaps feel isolated , and that we 're a little unfriendly . |
| 27 | It 's just that they they were worried that they were losing , they were worried that they were losing support , of losing cos the peasants are off on their own , you know , what 's the logical path . |
| 28 | Also what struck me was now that they they 're not fighting the Japanese erm they 're not required to make the sacrifices of war that they were so perhaps they 're going to think right let's see what we can make out of this , I do n't , I no longer have to pay X tax because |
| 29 | joined in too and that they they really ought to be invited to put the s in the frame as well . |
| 30 | And so it 's keeping up the the good work that 's of of lobbying MPs to such a degree that they they 've got to back it which is what 's brought it to its second reading as one of the most popular er private member 's bills in history . |