Example sentences of "of [noun] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in the 1930s the CEB men had been leaders in advocating larger-scale power generation , with the undertakings sometimes dragging their feet , by the time of nationalisation they pinned their faith more on the benefits of standardising on 30MW and 60MW sets as a means of both cutting costs and overcoming the capacity shortage ( see pp. 24–5 , above ) . |
| 2 | I always bake of a Wednesday , just like my mother used to — two saffron cakes and a tray of buns they last us nicely through the week . ’ |
| 3 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 4 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 5 | There are patients here looked after by their own G Ps especially on the medical side and of course they know their G Ps . |
| 6 | This was t I mean when you think about it er it was good fun and er eventually people realized what was happening and of course they knew what was happening but that went on for a long long time . |
| 7 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |
| 8 | Unless , unless of course they take it home and wash it and bring it back again they might . |
| 9 | Not that she does n't adore the boys and of course they worship their mother . |
| 10 | Of course they welcomed them in and exchanged news and questions . |
| 11 | Yeah , and of course they say it 's easier , but if you 've been brought up with it , well yes it 's dead easier |
| 12 | Of course they say he 's beneath us . ’ |
| 13 | A workload survey that the are doing , and er they they 're trying to get loads of GPs to do it and of course they want me to do it next week , and I 'm not here next week . |
| 14 | And then of course they exercise their discretion on the actual facts of the case when fixing the sentence . |
| 15 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 16 | So people have been forced to look at the way in which they are doing the work in er conjunction with er the manual for whatever other book of rules they have I wished they 'd do they carry out their work . |
| 17 | Often capable-looking owners assured her that they were good at controlling their pets , but at the first sign of resistance they released their hold and the animal then became nervous and upset . |
| 18 | Used as an integral part of teaching they lend themselves to workshops and multi-media situations . |
| 19 | If Vanilla Ice spouted the same sort of shit they did he 'd be pilloried . |
| 20 | Both men had pocketed their torches to allow them a better grip on their shotguns , and a couple of times they interrupted their progress to stand straining their ears into the whispering darkness around them for any sound of the fearsome dogs . |
| 21 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 22 | Towsie watched until the red began to die out and then , bidding me to have a care and stand back , at the word of command they teemed their buckets on the fire . |
| 23 | When anything like this happens in Waldron City everybody starts shouting for action , and as they have n't much idea just what kind of action they expect they take it out on the administration , and that means Wilson . |
| 24 | Er I 've got two I 've just just been two schoolkids who are not doing very well and they the end of term they 've you know the teacher 's said they 're sort of very far behind and they need to do some work during the holidays . |
| 25 | No I think what it was was a load of bullshit they give me . |
| 26 | so I paid it in the November , the second of December they announce me redundancy do n't they ? |
| 27 | They 'd , they had to because there were , they got , when , after the union was formed you know , they were having the rights er but and I think really the hours they put in and the type of work they deserved it , but erm there was a time you know when the bosses were bossy sort of thing , and er and you adhered to that , because you did n't know anything different until erm the unions started up , but erm I know there were one or two processions you know and peer rights and all this that and the other , but erm on the whole it 's er it 's been an eventful life in , in some ways , very eventful and it 's been interesting . |
| 28 | It was widespread among craft unions like the wool combers who were said to have become " one society throughout the kingdom … if any of their club is out of work they give them a ticket and money to seek for work at the next town where a box club is " . |
| 29 | This means giving them assistance in their cases , and even ( with the client 's consent ) taking cases for them in court if owing to some clash of appointments they find themselves unable to appear . |
| 30 | An inquiry directed at a not necessarily random sample of employers in 1984 asked about the number of workers they had whose stay with the organisation was recognised by both sides as being temporary . |