Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] they [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | before they actually suggest to somebody that they sell a house , that they sell a house and moved to a smaller one , they have to be unemployed for quite some time . |
| 2 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
| 3 | The bespectacled motormouth gets a cover splash on the New York Post for urging black kids to skip school the day his Malcolm X biopic opens , claiming that ‘ the teachers ca n't hold it against them if they write a report on what they see . ’ |
| 4 | Fortunately , the British can now buy them and they form a basis for this kind of pizza . |
| 5 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 6 | Where were you when they put a man on the moon ? ’ |
| 7 | Choke up at The Price Of Fame : ‘ I give ‘ em everything and they stick a knife in my back . ’ |
| 8 | A track runs east from the car park , alongside the magnificent Water of Nevis , starting off benignly enough to lure bored coiffured teenagers in high heels along it until they come a cropper as it climbs through the woods and becomes rocky . |
| 9 | If anyone wanted to attempt it from what they 've read in this book , I would strongly recommend that they think very carefully about it before they acquire a bird . |
| 10 | ‘ Any artist thinking they have made it when they sign a recording contract is totally wrong , ’ warns Gatfield . |
| 11 | Now let's get back to them before they send a search party out looking for us . ’ |
| 12 | He sees what is nowadays called , I think , ‘ inter-personal relations ’ as being largely predicated on the need for people to convince themselves that they have a wholeness and a separateness and an individuality and a defined self , and they do this by trying to define themselves against those other shifting , evanescent erm personalities that they call their friends , enemies , wives , children and so on . |
| 13 | Despite John Smith 's firm establishment as an authoritative and credible alternative Prime Minister , Labour are fooling themselves if they think a change of leader is all that was required to bring about a change of government . |
| 14 | because I 'll tell you what when they send a probe in , they go through every blooming thing with a fine tooth comb |
| 15 | Erm , they have had internal discussion and I believe they are not going to do anything until they get a prompt from Jenny , 'cos that 's what they 're expecting . |
| 16 | ‘ But those do n't apply to us as they imply a sharing that 's total , and there 's only one area of my life that I can bring myself to share with you . ’ |