Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I offered to coach them for nothing but they said they did n't want me , ’ he added . |
| 2 | As one famous sportsman put it , ‘ Agree to do something for nothing and they 'll tell you where the bus stop is ; ask to be paid and they 'll send the limo . ’ |
| 3 | We had to change the lock on their door , and the bloody lock cost thirty seven quid and each key cost five quid to cut , so we 're giving them fifty seven quids worth of security for nothing and they complain because I 'm not out by twelve o'clock . |
| 4 | It was cheaper than the cinema , only a few pennies , and young people could sometimes get in for nothing if they attached themselves to an adult . |
| 5 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 6 | There was a small space between me and them but the mousy man and the suitcase had disappeared . |
| 7 | Yet they had this sort of erm this sort of feeling about them that they created themselves , that they were sort of cock of the rock , within a shipyard . |
| 8 | ‘ They 'll be terrified of hearing you say something about them that they ca n't bear . ’ |
| 9 | Some women make such a fuss about them but they 're wrong , really they are . |
| 10 | And lo , the angel of the Lord came upon them , and the glory of the Lord shone round about them and they were sore afraid . |
| 11 | Like Spike Milligan , his jokes are very hard to explain — it 's difficult to say what exactly is funny about them and they do n't read well if you write them down . |
| 12 | Ask officials at the DSD secretariat in Bonn about them and they shrug , ‘ It 's a legal requirement , so the costs are not important . ’ |
| 13 | These have something of the character and purpose of propaganda about them and they therefore need cautious exegesis , but they at least manifest the king 's view of his subjects ' expectations and in doing so reveal the model to which he felt he should conform . |
| 14 | That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them . |
| 15 | The creep will also say things like , ‘ Oh , I know just how you feel ’ or ‘ I hear what you say ’ , and by the end of the interview you 'll know as much about them as they know about you . |
| 16 | Then coral pink walls of rock closed about them as they took the deep cut into Wells . |
| 17 | Peter and Paul will want to remember their Mummy as she was before she got ill , and how much she loved and cared about them when they were younger , even if the illness makes here different . |
| 18 | I knew all about them when they were called the Savage Sausages and they used to play the Powerhaus singing ‘ Louie Louie ’ through a 20 watt PA … |
| 19 | Computer programmers and analysts will be allowed to make use of programming techniques and skills which they have learnt and which have become part of their own skill and experience , unless there is something very special about them or they have expressly agreed not to make further use of them . |
| 20 | Nobody has ever bothered much about them because they harm no one ( except the ants ) . |
| 21 | It 's just I do n't really know much about them because they live quietly . ’ |
| 22 | ’ The great organisations of the masses … in the past were not worked out by any theoretical elite or vanguard … the new organisations will come as Lilburnes Leveller Party came , as the sections and popular societies of Paris in 1793 , as the Commune in 1871 and the Soviets in 1905 , with not a single soul having any concrete ideas about them until they appeared in all their power and glory ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , even we could n't be sure about them until they rammed us . |
| 24 | Erm but like I say w er I 'd have always had about ten friends who I would buy things off and they would buy things off me and they 're all on the dole . |
| 25 | But you could jump off them while they were going , so I , an |
| 26 | You know , if the erm that if the family think you 're going to actually take the child off them because they 're not looking after it properly , then I mean obviously they 're not perhaps going to be as frank with you as they might otherwise . |
| 27 | This active process is hindered for everyone if they use stereotypes . |
| 28 | At that point , they decided it would be best for everyone if they went home . |
| 29 | Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night . |
| 30 | and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday |