Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] they [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You take one or two , having studied the collectors of the world , and the highly professional fences of the antique market , and place them where they 'll bring you in the best and safest return . |
| 2 | ‘ It would be useful , ’ he said , ‘ if practitioners were made aware of the information that is required from them so they can build it up over a period of time . ’ |
| 3 | This will avoid duplication , and if you are using a store to organise your list do remember to inform them so they can add it to their list as having been bought . |
| 4 | The overseers of the poor could board out orphans , and then apprentice them until they could earn their own living . |
| 5 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
| 6 | He especially liked to be taken to the home of a couple , to sleep securely between them if they 'd let him , and then in the morning to ask them questions about their house , about the furniture which they 'd chosen together . |
| 7 | I mean I mean I 've written a letter to my cousins in South Wales asking them if they can point me at any places that might record , but I 'll actually make the contacts . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , one would exhort those workers who are conscious of the problems for their residents and would help them if they could to do their best — within the law and within the limits of their own conscience — to mend the situation in their own particular place of work if mending is needed there . |
| 9 | Like you say you 've got to watch them cos they 'll stab you in the back wo n't they ? |
| 10 | Most sales people are that false that they will only want to know you if they can sell you something . |
| 11 | Early on , she had learned one thing : if the poor saw you prospering they did n't deal with you if they could help it , their idea being they were n't going to give you a hand . |
| 12 | ‘ I threw it away because it was totally unsaleable , ’ he says , putting into practice another lesson from his father : never look at your mistakes , get rid of them because they 'll annoy you . |
| 13 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 14 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 15 | People disconcerted him because they could surprise him . |
| 16 | His teaching was so authoritative that the people followed him because they could see it was different from their normal diet of religious half-truths . |
| 17 | Many of the materials used were brought by the Israelites from Egypt ( 11:2–3 ) and willingly given , so that God 's tent might be as worthy of him as they could make it . |
| 18 | Morris tonner from Cripps and er I said I 'd buy the lorry off 'em if they 'd find me some work . |
| 19 | His main concern appeared to be that he did not want too many parents to be able to read it because they would find it attractive . |
| 20 | The manager still makes all the decisions , but believes that subordinates need to be motivated to accept them before they will do what he wants them to . |