Example sentences of "they and [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't stand any nonsense , mind you , they do what I tell them and they speak when they 're spoken to , but they know where they are with me . |
| 2 | That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them . |
| 3 | Many involved with its setting up feel deeply unhappy that they were misled when it was set up because the Government encouraged them and they believed that they would get direct financial support . |
| 4 | Gunfire was directed even at them and they fled or fell to the ground . |
| 5 | erm Nonetheless , while we want to carry on supporting that , we 've also got to think , as Jack said , erm of as we enter the next century what is going to be right for our children , and we know that in many ways we have failed them and we know that we are producing many children who have n't had the training and the education that 's going to be necessary for us to be erm economically competent in the future , so we 've got to look at the whole of our educational provision , and frankly I think opting out was erm a sort of unnecessary blip on all of this that is n't really terribly important in the whole issue of how the children in this country should be educated . |
| 6 | In our view , yes , but we can not quantify them and we believe that no-one can . |
| 7 | This is not just about forms ; it is about telling people about all the available services , explaining properly how to use them and what to do when things go wrong . |
| 8 | Right on one of them this bloke it says he hypnotises them and he goes when I click my fingers you will become my servant and he 's about to click his fingers like that when somebody comes and rescues them . |
| 9 | He did n't have to scream at people to get his way ; he just told them and he knew that they knew they had better do it that way or there was gon na be trouble ! ’ |
| 10 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 11 | Mr Utterson was among them and he remained after the others had left . |
| 12 | worked for them and you qualified while you were working for them . |
| 13 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 14 | When you initially meet somebody , you look at them and you decide whether you like what you see . |
| 15 | Sometimes you have the same person and you have lots of different scores for them and you see whether they 're correlated but most o more often than not what we 're talking about is a number of people and to see whether the pairs of scores in some way are related Now this is probably a bit more important . |
| 16 | There was a thread of affection growing between them and she knew that as well as Jenna did . |
| 17 | Ample proof indeed that it had recognized them and it realized that it was the entrance to its home . |
| 18 | A couple of them 's got ‘ B's in them and I try and work out which one 's for me , but it 's too hard . |
| 19 | I got one of them and I had and it 's got that in it . |
| 20 | Now for all those reasons madame speaker , this these orders er er today are inadequate , too little , too late , we ca n't vote against them , much as the the member who preceded me seemed inclined to vote against them and I wish that he had the g er the guts of 'is cu the courage of his convictions er he should vote against them , er we on this side are far more responsible er than that because to vote against them er might be an indication that we 're as much in frau in favour of fraud as members on the other side of the house , er we 're not in favour of fraud , we welcome any progress to detection of fraud , even progress that we asked for five eight years ago when the relevant legislation was passed . |
| 21 | I mean , I felt that , it made me worse as well , by going to them and I decided that I would never go back to them again , you know . |
| 22 | I could have gone mad , you know , but the tragedy is that during the courses a lot of them and I expect that the best time to learn is when you 're young and you 're more receptive . |
| 23 | I have learnt a lot from them and I recognise that we think and work in different ways . |
| 24 | A very neat bit of professional sleight of speech , suggesting equivalence in choice and control , even though they and we know that the reality is very different . |
| 25 | He was cremated and buried up at Creeting in my parents ' grave and that 's what 's going to happen to me , you see I will be cremated because erm , you know they make a sort of well and take off the top stone and the pebbles and things and er and then the ashes go in the and so in a casket do n't they and you see and so we shall |