Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 2 | It is J permanent feature of the library and accessible by students when and where they require it . |
| 3 | In the houses — never a window opened — in the cars , in the gruesome , echoing hypermarkets set in the middle of nowhere ( where they wished you a ‘ nice day ’ at 10 pm ) . |
| 4 | In the event , they rose from their seats , booed and shuffled out to the box-office , where they demanded their money back without success . |
| 5 | At the apex of the pyramid came the princes ' homage to the king — at least where they took it ( excluding therefore the counts of the far south and of Brittany , and the duke of Normandy after the breach of 1051 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’ |
| 7 | The cops saw me where they thought I should n't be , so they got curious . |
| 8 | He gave the union leaders the opportunity to tell him in a forthright manner where they thought he was going wrong with his policies and he in turn did some pretty plain talking about what he saw as their shortcomings . |
| 9 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 10 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 11 | Some German military police took Tribe prisoner and locked him in a barn , where they shot him fifteen minutes later . |
| 12 | The big city station from which they saw off their loved ones to war , from where they left for their honeymoons and holidays , where they kept their romantic trysts under the station clock , has been obliterated or at the very least altered out of all recognition . |
| 13 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 14 | His principles are chosen by people behind a hypothetical ‘ veil of ignorance ’ , where they know nothing of their social position in society , their sex , race , abilities or conceptions of the good ( Rawls , 1972 , in particular pt . |
| 15 | However , all of our established clients will also be visiting us at our showrooms where they know we retain our most important pieces which are shown to their greatest advantage in a purpose built gallery rather than on temporary stands . |
| 16 | That is why Labour and the Tories stand in areas where they know they will lose their deposits . |
| 17 | Little boys may be brought up in families where they saw their fathers exercising power in a very macho , bluff way . |
| 18 | With this in mind , it was important when moving into the schools market to consider who did the book buying in a school , and where they got their ideas from . |
| 19 | Then they can go back to asking each other where they got their blow-drys and leave the rest of us in peace . ’ |
| 20 | where they got their beliefs from , from them thinking , you know , they 've mixed men 's thinking with , with biologies and things ai n't they ? |
| 21 | Who had tried what , where they got it from , what it cost , and how they balance the accounts of risk and pleasure . |
| 22 | I 'd like to know which picture this is , and where they got it . |
| 23 | I 've only ever seen part of it I mean where they get it rigged up and the hit man keeps coming back and he , he keeps seeing him and he 's , he 's walking round the place and |
| 24 | I tell you , if she was out in Hollywood they would send her to one of those beauty farms , where they starve them and batter them about and knock them into shape ; then they would give her a plastic nose , or make the one she 's got more pointed , put false eyelashes on her , give her hair an expert cut , and walla ! she 'd be a sensation . |
| 25 | Marsh Lane police station is just round the corner from the Strand where they abducted him , ’ a middle-aged man said . |
| 26 | But there they were , four of them , just where they said they 'd be , in a clearing on a bend in the river , naked as nature intended , standing very upright which still did n't make them very tall and looking at us without any fear . |
| 27 | How many ships suddenly developed strange ghost personae ; mechanical poltergeists in the engine room ; voices where they had none before ? |
| 28 | Where they had it ? |
| 29 | Three hooded gunmen wearing Lebanese Army fatigues entered his apartment where they killed him , his wife and their two small sons . |
| 30 | In October he summoned to Amman the local notables favourable to his rule , where they asked him to put all Arab-occupied Palestine under his protection . |