Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scope of the Cash Accounting Scheme , whereby traders have to pay VAT to Customs only once they themselves have been paid by their customers , is also to be extended . |
| 2 | ‘ But if they ca n't be shifted , there 'll never be room for you , no matter how much better than them you may be at the job . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 4 | Booksellers also tend to prefer not to be associated exclusively with a few authorities or institutions , so that they themselves are less vulnerable to any changes in those libraries ' policies . |
| 5 | Furthermore , all three activities could and should work to the advantage of environmental conservation by encouraging people into new landscapes and thus heightening their environmental awareness so that they themselves become part of the environmental protection movement . |
| 6 | Another group of prisoners , themselves surrounded by guns and dogs , waited for the slow column to clear the road so that they themselves could pass on . |
| 7 | The world seemed to shiver into a million splinters of prismatic colour , silent and fiery , so that they themselves seemed to become beings other than themselves , inhabitants of another planet , out of time . |
| 8 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 9 | Listen to the words of Abraham to the rich man who died ‘ between us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from hence to you can not ; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence . ’ |
| 10 | The man told me to daughter so that they I was being kidnapped . |
| 11 | And brought the coal cutter in and they they put brought the pans and The shaker pans they used to wear belts then , for shaker pans you see ? |
| 12 | They did , they come in and they us and then they go home again . |
| 13 | in getting a a nice document together and they they would |
| 14 | We 'd leave home together and them we 'd part and go to different churches . |
| 15 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 16 | So but they they 've missed it it 's too late |
| 17 | Some will use the first name or parental terms ( such as ‘ mother ’ , ‘ father ’ , ‘ Mum ’ , ‘ Dad ’ , etc. ) , others will adopt more formal modes of address ( 'Mr Smith' , ‘ Mrs Jones ’ ) , while many find this awkward situation eased somewhat when they themselves have children and they are able to use the term ‘ Gran ’ or some equivalent ( Firth et al. , 1969 , pp. 418–22 ) . |
| 18 | When children acquire more than one language at once , they too begin by acting as if Contrast applied at one level only when they themselves are speaking . |
| 19 | So when they they we used to pull the pull the pull the pull the bread the the line |
| 20 | Thus many modern historians of classical Greece follow Thucydides and other commentators in arguing that democracy worked quite well so long as the populace was content to follow the leadership of educated spokesmen of the upper class like Pericles : " It was he who led them , rather than they who led him … |
| 21 | It 's just that they they were worried that they were losing , they were worried that they were losing support , of losing cos the peasants are off on their own , you know , what 's the logical path . |
| 22 | What happened was there was a burglar and er they went downstairs and they him over the head and then they put him a chair and they got the and he goes , what shall we , what shall we wrap him up in ? |
| 23 | They 're working is through and they they 're playing some super little link up stuff . |
| 24 | Well not unless they they do n't sell that house well look at poor old Dick ! |
| 25 | We do not have to provide sites for them , but we may have to very shortly because they themselves are going to the High Court to seek legal definition of their status and their due . |
| 26 | Soon as they what you 're doing they you down . |
| 27 | These lords viewed Edward III 's seizure of power with enthusiasm , believing not only that Edward might wish to wipe out the stain of the Stanhope Park campaign and the shameful peace , but also that they themselves might reap some political reward for their opposition to Mortimer in 1328 . |
| 28 | They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again . |
| 29 | Need some information but also if they you know something which could actually make it |
| 30 | Partly because they themselves were running running short of money er they they had a er lost a lot of lawsuits and they 'd spent a lot of money rebuilding their abbey church their priory church over at . |