Example sentences of "they [coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computer programmers and analysts will be allowed to make use of programming techniques and skills which they have learnt and which have become part of their own skill and experience , unless there is something very special about them or they have expressly agreed not to make further use of them . |
| 2 | He pushed it open for them and they went inside . |
| 3 | ‘ They know we 've always gone out with more than one of them and they 've always accepted it . |
| 4 | When a message came from a friend in Prague that their mother had disappeared , Miss Harder did everything she could to console them and they became very close . |
| 5 | She set a match to them and they smouldered economically . |
| 6 | Even if it is not their native tongue , Western songs , choruses and hymns are readily accessible to them and they relate fairly easily to the established churches in England . |
| 7 | The door closed behind them and they crept quietly up to the top floor in order not to wake the sleeping boys downstairs . |
| 8 | Criticism of the retraining schemes is often that they train people for jobs that are not always available to them and they expect too much mobility from people who have further reasons , in their disability , for being reluctant to move from their familiar surroundings . |
| 9 | Usually they are a group from an outdoor centre who are being given a taste of what canoeing can offer them and they have yet to appreciate the finer points of our sport or recreation . |
| 10 | ‘ What has happened recently has been a big shock to them and they have now got to knuckle down . ’ |
| 11 | The undertaker selected four of them and they bent willingly to the coffin , easier in their minds about the embarrassments of grief , because now they had something they could do . |
| 12 | do n't try and stop them and they start all over again it 's incredibly hard work |
| 13 | We called and saw them and we had quite a nice reception . |
| 14 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 15 | and I , I went home , phoned them and he said well , I got , there 's nobody there , try he said between five and six that 's his lunch hour , so I phoned , could n't get , oh no I , I thought well it 'll be too if I do n't get so I took it home |
| 16 | for them and he said there ai n't a bugger in England that 's good ! |
| 17 | He looked as if he was fighting the desire to glare at her , but his mother 's eyes were on both of them and he answered quietly enough . |
| 18 | Erm and I think actually being part of them and you know like , inner city churches , living right the you know the vicar 's and the the congregation 's not just coming from say to , but actually living in the area . |
| 19 | that you want to really help them and you feel dead sorry for them |
| 20 | People who do this are actually given a training , this does n't hurt the baby , they do n't mind , their bones are very soft you 'll look at your baby , all of you can look at babies that you 're caring for and you hold them and you see well is that leg longer than the other ? |
| 21 | There were two of them and she knew instantly , and with absolute certainty , that they were dead . |
| 22 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 23 | And I looked at them and I thought well it 's a lot of money to pay out , we 'll see what comes in . |
| 24 | Er I did ask the question as well what what 's going to happen to these trees or what happens to these trees when the City Council removes them and I 've never got an answer yet and I 'm going to keep asking somebody some day will give me an answer . |
| 25 | this is your way of working back rather than try and remember every little detail because a lot of them are similar , easy to get confused between them but you think well hey what would happen , what happens with an acid and a base , what happens with an acid and an alkali , now those two are virtually identical they they are more or less identical . |
| 26 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 27 | ‘ I have n't seen either of them but I 've only been back a little while , ’ replied Melissa . |
| 28 | Well I think er yeah I definitely have to agree with you that we 're not hearing enough of them but I suppose more and more now people are starting to record you know a little bit more of the older stuff and I think what 's happened on the pop scene that they 've absolutely dried up as regards er creating new music you know and people are going into computerized music now and you know everything is played on the one machine and it 's getting like a er I do n't know it 's as as if you do n't really have to be a musician any more . |
| 29 | Yeah well I know what to look for now , when I go down I can get 'em but I 'd never seen 'em before |