Example sentences of "they [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 'm not opposed to links when they 're relevant , I 've in fact argued and encouraged them and defended them where they 've taken place and I believe that they were important but I do n't believe in them taking place where they 're irrelevant and er where they er are unhelpful . |
| 2 | ‘ The country areas are a softer option for them where they know some areas are no-gos for us because of manoeuvrability and the terrain . |
| 3 | Though Rivers gave some slight encouragement to Eliot in suggesting that even in our own society , religious changes have unforeseen and far-reaching effects parallel to those caused by the abolition of head-hunting in Melanesia , Eliot 's linking of ‘ cannibal isle ’ and that ‘ slick place ’ London goes directly against the main thrust of the book which stresses ‘ the almost immeasurable difference between Melanesian and European cultures , and the sharpness of the line which still divides them where they come in contact ’ . |
| 4 | He begins to jog , kicking off his sandals , leaving them where they fall . |
| 5 | It would be part of the Foundation 's role in partnership at all levels to encourage development of networks where they do not already exist , and to reinforce them where they do — for greater consolidated strength and continuous intercommunication . |
| 6 | Notice that it is customary to indicate the parameters best varied to achieve balance by drawing an arrow through them where they appear in the double balance equations , as done here . |
| 7 | I 'm saying leave them where they belong at home . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The airmail letters which he exchanges with his liberal friends in England tell a worse story of them than they do of him , and hark back in fine style to that golden time when such friends used to kneel in London mosques with Michael X and other celebrities , squinting up at the Heavyweight Champion of the World 's effulgent arse . |
| 10 | It is far easier to prevent behaviour problems from developing than it is to correct them once they have become entrenched habits . |
| 11 | It has been found that this form of conditioning can occur much more rapidly if the response prevents unpleasant stimuli occurring or stops them once they have started . |
| 12 | For this reason , it is often much more effective to press the different parts of the spray individually and then reconstruct them once they have been pressed . |
| 13 | Multiple choices are learned and any one of them can be followed — as for example incest versus outbreeding — but there is an innate predisposition to learn certain ones in preference to others , or else to choose them once they have been acquired . |
| 14 | It is hard for foster parents to cope with very demanding and disturbed children and no less hard to part with them once they have learnt to love them . |
| 15 | Ouston summarizes such a view : ‘ Successful schools appear to prevent too many difficulties arising rather than being exceptionally skilled in dealing with them once they have arisen ’ ( Ouston 1981 ) . |
| 16 | These phenomena are so elusive , so debatable , so exploitable by the credulous and those who thrive on manipulating them that they drive more away from genuine religious experience than they attract to it . |
| 17 | I mean Paul said , with the blokes down in London and he , he ga gave them the pills and sa told them that they go back home and so he did . |
| 18 | It does n't occur to them that they 've done the same . |
| 19 | Just just a And you 'd to set them right We had to set them that they 've stayed like that . |
| 20 | He 's he 's out yes and there are two or three in which have erm you know they 're sorry that they 've gone back and er we feel sorry sort of for them that they 've dropped into and a lot of our young lads have got mortgages and all that but there are some gone back er they need not people erm they 'd finished rearing their families and everything . |
| 21 | now at the end of the day , whatever your own views about a contingency fund are , bearing in mind that it 's service , not management charged , if the residence do n't agree can you simply dictate to them that they 've got to have a contingency fund ? |
| 22 | They all speak excellent English and going on last year , are so pleased to be in Britain and so appreciative of everything arranged for them that they make an easy and rewarding group to entertain . |
| 23 | It 's only by ignoring them that they make a real effort to survive . |
| 24 | Can I take anything away from them that they want or need in exchange for what I want and need ? ’ |
| 25 | Letters are now being sent to their families in the United States , warning them that they face arrest upon return home . |
| 26 | It 's an encouraging if surprising fact that children and young people are much less likely to smoke when parents tell them that they do n't want them to . |
| 27 | Ask them why they are apologising , or inform them that they do n't need to : ‘ Why are you apologising ? ’ , |
| 28 | Such bodies are needed to break up centralized power to encourage participation and restore morale to ordinary people by convincing them that they do count , that they are listened to and that they can participate . |
| 29 | The Mexican government has informed them that they have to decide by December whether to return to Guatemala , or to lose refugee status and become Mexican citizens . |
| 30 | And when they have , we like to tell them that they have . |