Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [vb base] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They saw us just like we were jungle animals , jungle animals they treat us . |
| 2 | For my rent , for the funds they advance us — ’ |
| 3 | See children with skateboards they amaze me ! |
| 4 | The other one of the , one of the things that people find very difficult , the learning all the words they expect you to know . |
| 5 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 6 | What people think of the media in general and each medium in particular and the role or roles they perceive them to play in their lives and in society are important preliminary considerations which have to be studied . |
| 7 | I think to a certain extent the West Indian kids tend to get labelled and these labels they feel they 've got to live up to . |
| 8 | Galliano are cool and wise , but they do n't alienate their crowd by flaunting the books they want you to believe they read ; instead they quote Bob Marley and laugh . |
| 9 | After many months they let me free . |
| 10 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 11 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 12 | Bought a Vax , they said no they 're a con do n't worry , he said with a little bit of luck you 'll get one that 'll be free , you 'll have to give a report on it once a month , then about after nine months they give it to you if they thought |
| 13 | Around the corners they talk it over , make sense of what they heard . |
| 14 | Oh yeah , bounties they call them , you know , . |
| 15 | No er in the Methodist er ci circuits they move them on , they 're , they 're invited for three years . |
| 16 | As it turned out , I was a dreadful croupier and after a few weeks they put me on coats and hats . |
| 17 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 18 | In the first three months , three thousand miles , that does n't tend to happen in fairness erm and something like that would come up erm within that time scale , so , yes , I mean they have the right to go back to the dealer and I must admit in my overall view of the motor trade these days they do they are trying harder and harder to look after their customers because obviously they 're in business like everybody else , they know that their policy holders are covered by the Sale of Goods Act merchantable quality , erm and so they realize that if these things happen then they will endeavour to put the situation right . |
| 19 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 20 | The prisoners are allowed out of their cells from around 5.30 in the morning until 6.30 in the evening , during which time a majority of them would be involved in some type of work ; this is because for every two days they work they can earn one day 's remission of sentence . |
| 21 | So we have a rehearsal of grievances centring on the injustices they feel they have suffered as a result of black immigration into the area . |
| 22 | Yeah just a just a wooden bit of wood at the front and a a wooden bottom and then they had erm bed what did they call bed-sacks they call them |
| 23 | Even after 37 years they give you problems from time to time . ’ |
| 24 | It 's far more useful to think about plays in terms of the questions they ask us than what they tell us . |
| 25 | Any q any questions they give you based on that , you 'll be able to do it . |
| 26 | They feel bitter and disillusioned by the conditions they say they are forced to endure , under direct threat of assassination . |
| 27 | They recognise that not all interests in society are organised into groups and in order to explain this state of affairs they see it as important to consider two phenomena that tend to be ignored by pluralists . |
| 28 | And people are asking for advice and blessings , telling him about the problems they trust him to solve . |
| 29 | Right , er , people can take what bits from tables they want them , or , I 've got s , I 've got one put out , erm , shall we open that door a bit , it 's getting a bit hot in here , erm , do n't know if Mary wants any help out there . |
| 30 | What is generally and inherently good about getting true beliefs is that they 're useful , in the following sense : truth is that property of our beliefs which ensures that the actions they make us perform will succeed . |