Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] they [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
| 2 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 3 | ‘ There they are in Jerusalem with armed deacons round the True Cross , they say , to stop pilgrims biting bits off when they kiss it . ’ |
| 4 | Just as it is unwise to tell children that the stork brings babies , using the stork as a symbol , because this leads children astray if they take it literally , so , in religion , the symbolic language used interferes with the process of developing rationality in human affairs . |
| 5 | And they chop someone 's hands off because they think it 's OK . |