Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe if we were teaching them properly they would know how to protest without just resorting to violence or vandalism of some type , without the first step being breaking the rules ; but we do n't . |
| 2 | He said ‘ if we were teaching them properly they would know how to protest … ’ |
| 3 | They used to come out every summer to Southmoor , where I lived , to pick the hops and work on the local market garden and erm I agree with whoever said if you treat them right they 'll treat you right . |
| 4 | erm no I mean it 's , it 's good to see them on they were , they , the programme on , on the fourth of November will be audio described |
| 5 | I could n't get them on they wo n't fit . |
| 6 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 7 | Once you can get people in you know , you got ta attract them in , but once you get them in they 'll |
| 8 | on top of as well , we 've just put them in they 'll be about five minutes or whatever |
| 9 | 's got them in they 're ninety nine pound . |
| 10 | Well if I do n't bring them in they 'll sit in the cupboard |
| 11 | In other words , the body 's detoxification enzymes have evolved to deal with a certain range of naturally occurring chemicals — they can go to work on synthetic ones , but on the way to breaking them down they may produce intermediates that are harmful . |
| 12 | But if they was good hay and that and you tramped them down they stayed for ages . |
| 13 | I like airy but if , when you push them down they come back up . |
| 14 | Get up here , do n't lay them down they might leak all over my books and I will be in trouble |
| 15 | And it was Alec that was driving and Will Will , he said mind where your about Alec , you 'll er you 'll soon be in a ditch but good 's sake he said it 's not me So they were both |
| 16 | So mum and dad have half of that third they 'd share it out between them so they got |
| 17 | So here 's the hypothesis to explain that ellipsis is confined to constituents where constituents are just what they sound like , genuine components of a larger thing which is signalled by sticking brackets , labelled brackets round them so they make a phrase and you can do certain things with them . |
| 18 | group to go in and to spell them so they can talk to individual kids . |
| 19 | It 's either the job or something means they 've got ta go away or they ca n't afford , they ca n't sell them so they I do n't know if that would make your income different if you were still paying a mortgage . |
| 20 | It 's all right for them because their kids can go on holiday with them so they 've got no problems . |
| 21 | Mind they can get them so they lamb any time now ca n't they ? |
| 22 | They 're spelt how you say them so they can be spelt er ten different ways in the same village ! |
| 23 | The the men are no longer liberated and can have them so they just y it 's quite funny but you do n't get them now . |
| 24 | about what drugs do to them so they go and try it . |
| 25 | And you ca n't let people touch them so they have to be in glass cases which are hugely expensive and take up a lot of room , and the director is not very interested in costume . |
| 26 | And they 've gone all , you see I have n't been eating them so they 've been in the fridge and they 've gone all soft . |
| 27 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 28 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 29 | Okay all the different , any two , all the two numbers so that when you multiply them together they make three sixty . |
| 30 | Now you 've let me down they 'll just say , we told you so , Sam and Foggerty and all . |