Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who must let them enter do not like the work , for they fear what sidles in at the same time — the jealousies , the old rows and the suspicion of old fraud . |
| 2 | They make me come out in spots . |
| 3 | ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that . |
| 4 | They want me to walk out in Watts , like black people did in the '60s , and say ‘ Cool it , baby , cool it . ' |
| 5 | So they want us to go around at half past one or the two of them can start cos we 've got an addition . |
| 6 | well , they want us to move on to developing the policies which have addressed the changed world . |
| 7 | Well they expect everybody to go out on a Saturday night you see . |
| 8 | They suggest you take off from Laville base outside Brest . ’ |
| 9 | They say they go out of their way to avoid trouble , having left a bar in Haymarket earlier in the evening because there was a group that seemed intent on a fight , swearing and pushing their way through to the bar . |
| 10 | They say it went down to minus ten last night . ’ |
| 11 | But he le , they let him go off on holiday in the end . |
| 12 | They let me get on with my job and the only time I see them is to get things rubber-stamped . ’ |
| 13 | They let them slide around on the polished floor and listen to music on the ward radio . |
| 14 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 15 | They let them surge out at the gate and shake themselves loose of restraint to take their several ways . |
| 16 | Otherwise they let us get on with it . ’ |
| 17 | Because although the problems in which philosophers begin are fairly easy to state and quite straightforward , erm certainly when they begin they end up in some rather strange regions . |
| 18 | They tell you to go on with artificial respiration for ever , for long after you 've given up hope . |
| 19 | They get you to go in for something and then it costs you money . |
| 20 | In any one institution such nurses are very few , and they find themselves cut off from research nurses elsewhere , as well as from nurses engaged in routine work on the wards . |
| 21 | They ask you to go out with them , they buy you a drink or two — and then they think that they can do what they want ! |
| 22 | Very few vehicles pass , but when they do they bear down from nowhere full of gun-toting unsmiling men in the American uniform of checked shirts , peaked caps and bullet-proof , puffa-waistcoats . |
| 23 | Yeah so do they do they walk around at all or ? |
| 24 | Yeah they do they cross over from outside |
| 25 | ‘ And your parents quite obviously hate my guts because they think I walked out on Jennifer when she most needed me … |
| 26 | And I wonder if it seems to be that they prefer you come out of the upper drawer than come up with your brilliant A levels or whatever . |
| 27 | It well may be that erm you know with the help that er he can be referred to , they help him keep out of trouble again , for a lot longer . |
| 28 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 29 | What hope can they have , if they see you slumping about like a filleted herring , wallowing in self-pity ? |
| 30 | If they witness something frightening , if they see someone messing up at school or losing friends , they 'll show concern , distance themselves from anything really threatening , enjoy a little frisson of fear and then slip back towards their old habits . |