Example sentences of "they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd always wondered what drove them , what were they about . |
| 2 | We need to learn more about other students — and they about us . |
| 3 | The issues are not about inappropriate use of authority nor are they about the display of heroics . |
| 4 | Are they about what the new settlement should be like , if so is that an appropriate consideration for the structure plan . |
| 5 | As opposed to are they about where the new settlement should be generally located ? |
| 6 | I do n't really wan na know what they about me . |
| 7 | What I mean to say it 's not very , it could be appreciated if they about it , but we just er left to do it and then tell him afterwards the bits . |
| 8 | Mm , they say that , do n't they about frozen veg . |
| 9 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 10 | COMMUTERS from Essex to London have been urged to keep their cool as they as face up to today 's nightmare journey to work caused by the national one-day rail strike . |
| 11 | The Norman conquerors , in attempting to establish rights to land in England , undermined indigenous oral criteria for proof of ownership , by which they as newcomers were on weaker ground than native land owners , and set up centralised , bureaucratic procedures with emphasis on written documentation , records , cross-referencing etc. over which they could exercise greater control . |
| 12 | To answer this question , we must first assess the significance of homage and fealty in the later thirteenth century : how important were they as expressions of subordination of one ruler to another ? |
| 13 | So women have to challenge owner-occupation and , in particular , council-house sales and cuts in public expenditure in housing , since it is they as housewives , mothers and single parents who inevitably bear the brunt of reduced decent public housing , and the increased push towards owner-occupation . |
| 14 | We do not know enough to claim that they as consciously intend the means , the specific actions and speeches they produce to accomplish such a social act . |
| 15 | In other words , they as pupils are not living fully in accordance with the official school rhetoric . |
| 16 | This became clear when , in an attempt to investigate further the nature of the personal pronoun constraint on the non-standard concord rule , all occurrences of they as subject in the speech of 12 speakers were collected ( N=310 ) , from which only one example was discovered of a singular verb : |
| 17 | In London English , for example , singular forms of be ( certainly past tense forms ) seem to co-occur freely with we and they as subjects : |
| 18 | Were it not for the single inconvenient occurrence in the data ( example 22 ) of they as the subject of a singular verb , we could set up an initial list of ‘ invariant ’ environments , which themselves are characteristic of this vernacular system , prior to an investigation of patterns underlying the variability in the many environments which permitted it . |
| 19 | Are they as attractive to parents and staff ? |
| 20 | Cleveland trading standards officer Eric Robinson who collated a file of complaints against SureStyle , said they wanted the Office of Fair Trading to take action against the directors of SureStyle to ensure they as individuals did not pursue these sales tactics in the future . |
| 21 | Men they for sudden joy did weep |
| 22 | ‘ Are they for your camp ? ’ |
| 23 | How desperate were they for work ? |
| 24 | Just as the rewards for European golfers have increased dramatically over the last few years with a circuit worth nearly twenty million pounds , so have they for caddies . |
| 25 | Firstly , if the argument is that any of the suggested markets — be they for products , corporate control or managerial talent — at present actually operates to constrain corporate managers , this is not something which is empirically demonstrated , and given the present nature of these markets it seems an implausible claim . |
| 26 | ‘ Hitler and Mosley , what are they for ? ’ chanted the anti-Fascist crowds , ‘ Thuggery , buggery , hunger and war ! ’ |
| 27 | And neither should they for those purposes make play with the values and ideals of Co-operation . |
| 28 | " What are they for ? " he asked again . |
| 29 | They forgot El-ahrairah , for what use had they for tricks and cunning , living in the enemy 's warren and paying his price ? |
| 30 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |