Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think maybe English men would refer to their car as She or so on if they get to think you know they make things have personalities you start to give them personal pronoun there . |
| 2 | At times this anti-realism took the form of an extreme nominalism , according to which the words ‘ man ’ and ‘ triangle ’ are general only in that they are used of a number of different things . |
| 3 | They differ from the theories described in Chapter 3 , therefore , only in that they do not ascribe the poor acquisition to a change in the value of some attention-like process . |
| 4 | Pigs and peccaries , even though they are similar in many respects — not least their looks — are related only in that they are both artiodactyls . |
| 5 | Yeah , they 're only in because they two big logs on |
| 6 | Jason 's obviously down when they 've , you know well . |
| 7 | There was a master over-ride switch outside each of the stages , allowing them to pass swiftly through until they were at the deepest level . |
| 8 | This is a horror movie a fucking horror movie this lunatic is making his own horror film and you ca n't even tell yourself Hell it 's only a story are n't the special effects good it is n't real because that 's exactly what it is and the gorilla man is explaining in that hideous high-pitched baby 's voice what he has in this bottle and in this syringe and I throw up halfway through but they pause the video for me . |
| 9 | And quite a few blisters bursting out all over as they say . |
| 10 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 11 | The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in . |
| 12 | Although American car workers will get a lot more free time in the months to come , they will at least be better off than they were a decade ago . |
| 13 | In terms of space , sunlight and unpolluted air , the squatters are better off than they were in the crowded , unventilated and noisy slum courts . |
| 14 | And they might use the sympathy ( and sense of guilt that you 're better off than they are ) you feel towards them to control you . |
| 15 | Money was now plentiful in her home , thanks to Michael 's employing her brothers in his business , while the majority of the people in Lancaster Road wore still no better off than they had been before the war . |
| 16 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 17 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 18 | He went on to repeat the Prime Minister 's bland assurance that , far from experiencing poverty , most students were better off than they had ever been before . |
| 19 | if property is equalized then the economy will so he uses some sort of incentive argument here and maybe some sort of undertones here that inequalities are necessary to make the worse off better off than they would have been without them , but he thinks the uneducated poor may well be too stupid |
| 20 | But the North still lags behind the rest of the country by a significant margin and , crucially , some people are no better off than they were ten years ago . |
| 21 | Yet one only needs to travel in the town on Saturdays to see well clothed and healthy children and upstanding young men and women , to realise that the people of this country are better off than they have ever been . |
| 22 | Yet one only needs to travel in the town on Saturdays to see well clothed and healthy children and upstanding young men and women , to realise that the people of this country are better off than they have ever been . |
| 23 | Under the new-look European farm policy agreed last year farmers are much better off than they thought they would be . |
| 24 | Although the HLCA was being cut , he insisted increases in other grants meant farmers would be better off than they had thought . |
| 25 | Recall from Chapter 8 that , according to the Hicks-Kaldor condition , if any change occurs which redistributes income in such a way that the gainers can potentially compensate the losers and still be better off than they were before , then we can conclude that potential economic welfare has increased . |
| 26 | I realise from his point of view his company would be a quarter of a million better off if they could prove it should never have been paid in the first place , but … it is my mother he was talking about dammit ! ’ |
| 27 | So , rationally , both should defect , yet both would be better off if they cooperated . |
| 28 | ‘ Poor people would be much better off if they had fewer children to feed and clothe . ’ |
| 29 | Some editors believed they would be better off if they refused to take advantage of the new rules and continued to let the censor see their material in manuscript . |
| 30 | Tories remained fiercely critical of Whig arguments about popular sovereignty , and tended to argue that the people would be better off if they accepted their place in society and allowed the Tory elite to attend to their welfare . |