Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Powell and Pressburger brought their Archers outfit under the umbrella of Rank 's Independent Producers company where they made all their films from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to The Red Shoes . |
| 2 | Where they get all their money from ? |
| 3 | One problem is that although they stay slim they grow very tall , up to 11ft in six years . |
| 4 | In the meantime , he says , clients of conservators also need to act responsibly when they entrust a work of art to someone : ‘ They spend more time and more effort looking for an auto mechanic than they do finding someone to restore a work of art ’ . |
| 5 | Even when a team exists , they can succeed in ‘ permeating ’ a special needs element into initial teacher training only to the extent that they influence all their fellow specialist tutors to widen their teaching perspectives to include children with special needs . |
| 6 | I could n't help noticing that they spent all their off-duty time racing down to London to what they called ‘ a sitting ’ , which tuned out to be another name for a seance . |
| 7 | As far as the organisation of their work was concerned , only four said that they spent all their time with the ‘ named ’ child , half worked with other special needs children or undertook general duties and 92 per cent said they also worked with normal children . |
| 8 | the erm , I mean if there 's only one much worse that they know that everyone much better for their |
| 9 | Ninety-four per cent of those surveyed thought recycling was important , but only 36 per cent did any themselves : 64 per cent said that they put all their household waste straight into the bin . |
| 10 | But perhaps he pointed out to those village children the caddis fly ‘ on four fawn-coloured wings , with long legs and horns ’ ; and the dragonfly with ‘ eyes so large that they filled all its head , and shone like ten thousand diamonds ’ . |
| 11 | Her eyes were so wide-set and widely-opened that they consumed half her face in a dazzling pool of greenish-blue radiance . |
| 12 | No-one puts a small amount in a bag that they ask some one to carry . |
| 13 | They have stressed that they love all their children . |
| 14 | I just noticed I was reading one of these er incidentally I mentioned about British Gas er this is the one that they give all their . |
| 15 | and there be twenty eight shillings a week , that 's all I allowed him and because that was even better than labour money and so the day , they , I had to keep that they stopped all me labour , so cos I had the money you see . |
| 16 | And apparently the one that had gone out to him had n't found him , so they sent another one and he found him straight away with his directions . |
| 17 | But you see that would have given , one , two , three , four crossings on that , within half a mile in Driffield , so they closed that one and put a footbridge over and erm thanks . |
| 18 | Once they possess this their whole lifestyle is transformed . |
| 19 | They discovered the olive oil we had left behind and they took all our olive oil machines . |
| 20 | and well they used to make , and they made these they made kind of lots of tin things you know like different sizes and I can nae just describe what they , there was one had big whiskers down his face but er the rest was clean shaven , you ken . |
| 21 | If they send out a document that weighs a kilo for tapes and they sent that one , they 're losing twenty |
| 22 | If you compare it with other departments , if you talk to people who do English and stuff , and they know all their tutors by their first names ; I mean , it 's nothing like that here , it 's all Dr So-and-So — I mean , half the lecturers , I did n't even know what their second names were , let alone their first names — maybe that 's just a result of physics , nothing to do with them . |
| 23 | and she 'd offered it to Maureen three months before and Maureen turned it down , and they went mad they said you little creep Jan , little bloody sneak |
| 24 | to bring it back , said she did n't know , she said I do n't know , and they asked another one , it was about what 's a hundred and thirty one and thirty eight and something , not , |
| 25 | I I had er a return ticket from York to Gloucester and I was fortunate enough to get a lift back so I went into the station to ask if I could get a refund on the other half of the return and they said Sure you owe us four pounds . |
| 26 | and they had two they had two disabled girls , there are two girls who were erm you know physically er disabled , I forget what was wrong with them I think one had a clubfoot or something an and they were almost free they were n't completely free , but they were nearly free because of their disabilities and |
| 27 | And they had another one |
| 28 | And they had another one |
| 29 | Stuart 's parents are human , but the whole family loves him , and they make sure nobody discriminates against him because of his size and appearance . |
| 30 | and they make sure they every time they do something like this there pension 's on the line , there job 's on the line |