Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the Israelites had been taught to welcome strangers and to look after them and Ruth 's fears must have been allayed as they receive her , there 's no cross examination , there 's no inquisition , she does n't go through any third degree , she is received back at face value . |
| 2 | ‘ Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires ; the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them ! ’ |
| 3 | One local resident commented at the time , ‘ Possibly this area may have been picked because they think they might meet least resistance from a depopulated area ’ . |
| 4 | They are discharged when they reach their target weight . |
| 5 | However , when he is transferred to a strange yard with different handlers , even if it is a good establishment , his natural nervous temperament will reappear , explaining why so many new owners think their horse may have been drugged when they bought it . |
| 6 | They said well your husband 's car 's been vandalised and they think it 's you that 's done it so we 've come to arrest you so she said oh I thought you 've come to tell me it were me daughter that was dead and he said , he said what you talking about ? |
| 7 | It has been argued that they derived their name from that of Kenchester , which is identified as the Magnis of both the Antonine Itinerary and the Ravenna list , suggesting some tradition of local continuity , but there remain serious problems with this suggested derivation . |
| 8 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 9 | They 're lying if they say they do n't . |
| 10 | You often see people looking at you and you know that they 're wondering if they know you . |
| 11 | So you not it it 's do you say , you 're not actually against , you do n't mind er you you would n't mind them doing what they 're doing if they did it away from here . |
| 12 | The imaginary and timeless cruelties of the Chinese are relished as they frighten us , while the drama of the Hungarians is a disturbing intrusion of someone else 's reality that , glimpsed on the television screen , is not entirely unlike our own : worried-looking men in square-shouldered , belted coats ; forlorn children . |
| 13 | Add the chance to accelerate and brake Britain 's most famous locomotive , Pacific ‘ A3 ’ No. 4472 Flying Scotsman , on almost a mile of running line , and you soon come to realise why the Birmingham Railway Museum 's fortunes have been transformed since they granted their unique ‘ School for Steam ’ the right of way . |
| 14 | ‘ The habits are blessed when they make their final vows , ’ I said . |
| 15 | The Arsenal boss said yesterday : ‘ There should be responsibility when managers are hired that they see it through to the end of the season . |
| 16 | The emphasis with the old , as with any other age-group , should be on prevention before the need for cure arises , and some elderly people suffer quite unnecessarily from the ‘ silent ’ types of illness which show no dramatic symptoms in their early stages ( such as anaemia ) , and which might well be diagnosed if they visited their doctor at six-monthly intervals when feeling at all ‘ off colour ’ . |
| 17 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 18 | They 're gon na gain from that or they 're gon na be seeing that they think they gain from that and all you 've got ta get over to the members we 're gon na be a cohesive force and that we 're going , we are going to fight some day together for them . |
| 19 | Companies will be punished unless they give their employees financial incentives to commute by bus , car-pool , or by rapid-transit rail lines not yet built . |
| 20 | The retributivist principle — that wrongdoers should be punished because they deserve it — is in some ways the complete antithesis of reductivism . |
| 21 | If people are to be punished because they deserve it , it is natural to say that they should also be punished as severely as they deserve — that they should get their just deserts . |
| 22 | However , the Soviet Defence Ministry on March 29 offered an amnesty to other deserters , saying that they would not be punished if they rejoined their units immediately . |
| 23 | ‘ Whoever gave this drug to Rachel is evil and must be stopped before they kill someone . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Whoever gave this drug to Rachel is evil and must be stopped before they kill someone , ’ he said . |
| 25 | They should not be discharged immediately they reach their target weights , but should become accustomed to eating normal meals rather than the high-energy diet necessary for weight gain . |
| 26 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions might well be outdated when they reached their target . |
| 27 | They must not be forgotten for they gave their lives in defence of values which are under more bitter attack now all over the world than ever before . ’ |
| 28 | Care must be exercised on returning home , and ideally the dogs should be separated while they have their leads taken off and their muzzles fitted . |
| 29 | ‘ Nothing much , really just asking to be told if they found her . ’ |
| 30 | The teacher takes on the role of an alien , who says that the crew of the Starship must be lying when they say their leader is a man . |