Example sentences of "[pers pn] and they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The responsibility will now be theirs and they 'd better get on with it and better show things that they 've been arguing and get along . |
| 2 | The decision finally is theirs and they take full responsibility for that decision , and may erm in exceptional circumstances not follow the advice of their Clerk . |
| 3 | But young people now realise that certain buildings , for instance , are theirs and they do n't want them ruined . |
| 4 | When it comes to chocolate , we do n't like theirs and they do n't like ours . |
| 5 | They would perhaps like to buy it , but they ca n't sell their property and also if they can sell theirs and they look at the cost of the property and they work out how much they 've got to pay for the mortgage then they find they ca n't afford it . |
| 6 | Kadhafi in a speech on Libyan television on Aug. 31 said that " the UN is like an oven where the demands are cooked ; they came to me and they said : " Eat " " . |
| 7 | And then , when I was taking the exhibition down , a couple of women helped me and they said , ‘ Why are you so angry , dear ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They were really kind to me and they made me feel that they genuinely cared . ’ |
| 9 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 10 | I made four locks for the gates on Lord 's cricket ground er and when I 'm telling you this , and practically without exception , they must 've er got to know me and they come for what they wanted . |
| 11 | People meet me and they get all excited because they think I 'm going to have something funny to say . |
| 12 | and they were very good to me and they kept in touch with me |
| 13 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 14 | You know , this is how it was first and I only come across that but , how it went , they felt I was genuine I suppose and they could trust me and they left it as it was and I had me own building . |
| 15 | They looked at me and they pretend I 'm someone called Franz Kafka . |
| 16 | The people in Spain know me and they know what I can achieve . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Now that 's what I 'd prefer , but in every , you know the majority go against me and they want it in a as I say I I would , I think that it 'd be better placed at the top . |
| 19 | I know it 's a cave , even though it 's so dark I ca n't see a thing , 'cos there are voices calling all round me and they echo . |
| 20 | ‘ The guards , they showed the paper to me and they pointed at the photograph and said : ‘ He is with us ’ . ’ |
| 21 | I 've persuaded them to stick with me and they have responded superbly . ’ |
| 22 | I phoned them last week and said you know have you got any suggestions , and they said they 'd come back to me and they have n't . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd really like to run the 400 , but I would n't be disappointed if someone was running better than me and they decided to take him , ’ said Black , whose domestic pre-eminence was sensationally ended by Grindley in Barcelona . |
| 24 | But the effect I 've had on the straight world , the fact that they come to me and they feel comfortable , half knowing that maybe I 've been involved in … what to them is alternative sexuality , is a positive thing . ’ |
| 25 | And what happens , they come to me and they say , as housemaster , they say ‘ I 'm not going to maths because I do n't like that maths teacher . |
| 26 | They were glad to see me and they shook me by the hand and one of them said : |
| 27 | Stands to reason nobody 'd dare to bomb us , because , we 'd do the same to them and they know it . ’ |
| 28 | Suddenly the ground fell away before them and they came out on an open plateau with a floor of chequered marble , white on black , and a wide stone staircase with balustrades running down to the dried bed of an ornamental lake , which the mist turned to a bowl of milk . |
| 29 | them and they came had this little pancakes were dishes of er there was a dish of the sauce that |
| 30 | You told me Stevie was coming round once before so I got all these water bombs , water bombs ready for them and they came round they were n't there . |