Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decide which options are unrealistic and exclude them , for example : |
| 2 | We ought not to admire them when they put up their fists and fight nor mock them when they are afraid and tell them they must be a man . |
| 3 | Because you 're the sort of person people tell their problems and secrets to , because you 're sympathetic and give them hope . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , cos like feelings and thoughts are hard to capture they 're intricate and get them down |
| 5 | Yesterday I said that to you , cos I says oh who 's been good and filled them |
| 6 | Since the caterpillars have very bright distinctive colours , the birds quickly recognise that they are inedible and leave them alone . |
| 7 | ‘ Can you guess … ? ’ can be used to help those who are stuck but feel they understand where they are going . |
| 8 | I do n't know er why we 're not more continually erm more on the case as far as our members of parliament are concerned because remember they 're there for our benefit and front page of the Daily Mirror this morning . |
| 9 | ‘ I would like us to put a run together until the end of the season we have three games left and we have to try to be professional and win them all . ’ |
| 10 | There , they are likely to listen sympathetically and you may be lucky and catch them on a quiet day . |
| 11 | The high court decision , announced at the end of December in that year , found on behalf of SPUC and declared such counselling by the Dublin Well Woman Centre and the Open Line counselling service to be illegal and ordered them to cease their public information service on the issue by 12 January 1987 . |
| 12 | And they said we do n't mean to be over the men , but what we mean is for you to come down the office , no what the office wants as regards orders , and be responsible and pass them out to the men who you 'll think who 'll do the job best and all that , and that 's what we mean . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're asking me if I 'm some sort of embittered , wounded animal , who only wants to reach out and break things because he ca n't be happy or possess them ? ’ |
| 14 | The only way to bring figures like this alive is to be crude and personalize them . |
| 15 | Indeed , too overt an attempt to so could well be counterproductive and lay them open to the charge of meddling . |
| 16 | They might be surprised and find they like it . |
| 17 | Most people want to be special and know they are special to their loved and chosen partner . |
| 18 | However , there are always attendant risks with taking people out of an environment where they have been successful and moving them , mid-career , into a completely different style and sector and trying to make them successful there . |
| 19 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 20 | People perceive the world as though it were guiding and constraining them . |
| 21 | She was getting better at knowing what to do when people were sick and asked them how it had happened . |
| 22 | Molly congratulated the 16 successful candidates at this year 's examination , presented certificates to those who were present and welcomed them to their first training day as qualified teachers . |
| 23 | The Home Secretary , shortly afterwards accepted that the " Guildford 4 " were innocent and released them , but the IBA still refused to allow the record to be played on radio or television . |
| 24 | Even the perfectionists were impressed and admitted they came away with their tails between their legs having learnt a great lesson about false pride . |
| 25 | Occasionally you can say you think they 're being stupid or have they thought about other things but at the end of the day people are answerable erm for their own decisions I feel and , if I have an opportunity I 'll tell them what I think , but er if people are n't wanting your opinion then you ca n't really give it |
| 26 | The men deny taking nude pictures of the girls while they themselves were naked and showing them to the children 's mother . |
| 27 | The goals of its ambulatory care initiative were to improve access — for example , by maximising the hours when clinics were open and linking them closely to back up services in the hospitals , increasing the comprehensiveness of care on offer , improving continuity ( by linking regular attenders to an identified primary care team ) , and making the management of the clinics more autonomous and more accountable . |
| 28 | Many linguists felt that since corpora were finite and degenerate they were unable to deal with many of the phenomena present in language , and could offer no insight to the ’ real ’ question of how people process language . |
| 29 | ‘ They were fantastic and said they understood . |
| 30 | ‘ I was depressed , and when they arrived at my house and said , ‘ We 're very sorry to hear about your husband ’ , I believed they were genuine and let them in . |