Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may have to wait for one or two things but you know like like copy sometimes but I did n't used to send them s erm er contracts in unless they had everything . |
| 2 | This emphasis upon the need for cultural and social reinforcement , though often overlooked by educationalists , is crucially important if the learning process is to be useful and related to the experience of the community groups so that they feel they can go on to employ practical applications of their learning . |
| 3 | Tie the beef and lamb into compact rolls or squares so that they retain their shape during cooking and will be easy to cut . |
| 4 | Survivors quietly described how families were destroyed , women abused , men castrated ; how the Gestapo made them play their gypsy violins even while they performed their atrocities . |
| 5 | Reports spoke also of feelings of resentment among some black African leaders , including Diouf , who was quoted as saying after the summit that " we respect the Arabs more than they respect us " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( ii ) They should have continuing opportunities to write for formal or public purposes so that they increase their command of the structures of written Standard English . |
| 8 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 9 | JACK CHARLTON ( Leeds and England 1952–72 ) : ‘ I think he summed it up for me a couple of years ago when they questioned him being an Englishman in charge of the Irish team . |
| 10 | And I quickened then , of course you dare n't go to work those days when once they knew you was pregnant it was a case of out . |
| 11 | It was one and a half hours later before they reached him , caught up in all the plants , still shouting ‘ What have I done ? |
| 12 | About five minutes later as they watched its dying effects a great sound wave enveloped the ship . |
| 13 | A child darted out in front of the striding troopers so that they checked their pace . |
| 14 | Unlike expatriates relocating overseas as part of a career move , those employed on fixed-term contracts often leave their families behind while they complete their contract . |
| 15 | And he came back to er and started again and er he 'd just er er the big manufacturer engineering er people made us lace machines then and they started him off with three , and he 'd paid off one and part of the other when he died . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship . |
| 18 | Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship . |
| 19 | Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship . |
| 20 | Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship . |
| 21 | Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship . |
| 22 | His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera . |
| 23 | Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered . |
| 24 | I have always enjoyed holidays alone because they allow me to do what I want to do and not what someone else wants to do . |
| 25 | I worry about what my neighbours might think , seeing me dumping three or four black bin-liners outside when they know I 'm living alone . |
| 26 | ‘ There they are in Jerusalem with armed deacons round the True Cross , they say , to stop pilgrims biting bits off when they kiss it . ’ |
| 27 | The last glow had gone from the sunflowers now and they hung their heads on their spindly supports . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Get a few ranters together and they give you broth if you let them save your soul . |
| 30 | And they chop someone 's hands off because they think it 's OK . |