Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , although I 'm not so bitchy as to suggest women want him only for what they can get , nine times out of ten it 's probably the truth . ’ |
| 2 | Well I know they 're not allowed to dig down like what they used to do . |
| 3 | They cobble workings together from whatever they can scrape up . |
| 4 | The experience of other countries and movements , particularly European social democracy , provided much from which they could learn ; and the future lay in a cooperative rather than confrontational relationship between the USSR and the wider world from which both sides could benefit . |
| 5 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
| 6 | If you give in to them they will do it even more and they will think they have won , ’ she said . |
| 7 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 8 | It helps if couples can think in advance about what retirement will be like-to think individually about what they 'd like to happen , and even more importantly , to talk to each other about what they 'd like to happen . |
| 9 | Just like what they would do . |
| 10 | Does , does it call into question the fact that that was really what the peasants did think and believe , or were the peasants opportunists , and if they felt they could get away with anything they would get away with anything ? |
| 11 | People do n't follow through on what they can see , erm and what erm might be there . |
| 12 | She believed that ‘ representation without taxation ’ led to councils gaining support more for what they could promise as spenders rather than save as prudent housekeepers . |
| 13 | I always think that if someone tries to get close to me they must want something from me . |
| 14 | Getting on with what you should be doing that can only see a few people doing that who are actually getting on with what they should have been doing while you are waiting . |
| 15 | With an inconvenient house and stuck out on that headland with nothing to look at but a ruined abbey and that atomic power station they 'll have to put up with what they can get . ’ |
| 16 | He said : ‘ Keith Fletcher and Graham Gooch are both members of the TCCB 's cricket committee and we shall listen carefully to whatever they might have to say in their end-of-tour reports . |
| 17 | She wants to catch up on everything they can teach her about themselves , because then she can learn about herself . |
| 18 | Autobiographies and interviews , each constrained both by what children could see and also by what they would remember as significant , offer inevitably partial glimpses of the experience of ageing . |
| 19 | Such a system stresses economic self-interest as all-important , rather than community spirit , public duty and so on ; everybody is out for what they can get . |
| 20 | But my favourites are definitely the ambitious Punjabi boys out for what they can get : |
| 21 | She attested in September 1939 that ‘ universally , householders have been shocked at the disgraceful and disgusting conditions in which a certain portion of the population lives ’ , and that ‘ the low slum type form the majority of the mothers , some out for what they can get , most of them dirty , many of them idle and unwilling to work or pull their weight ’ . |
| 22 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |
| 23 | Single-parent women can earn relatively little money out of which they will have to pay the expenses of child-minding . |
| 24 | The compartment was fitted out with everything they would need to live there for ever . |
| 25 | They were accordingly satisfied that the trial judge misdirected the jury when he stated that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what they could find proved that he himself did . |
| 26 | The Norman conquerors , in attempting to establish rights to land in England , undermined indigenous oral criteria for proof of ownership , by which they as newcomers were on weaker ground than native land owners , and set up centralised , bureaucratic procedures with emphasis on written documentation , records , cross-referencing etc. over which they could exercise greater control . |
| 27 | The spacious boot coped admirably with everything they could cram into it in one week — picnic hampers , the weekly shopping , even the latest buys from Sue 's visits to the garden centre . |
| 28 | Radio in Zambia broadcast not only in English but also in seven Zambian languages ; therefore , unlike television and most newspapers , it was able to communicate with a large proportion of the people in their own language or at least in one they could understand . |
| 29 | You know it 's possible , and we use that word love , it 's not really love , so we 'll love somebody else for what they can get out of them , course do that 's an undervalue of the word love , it 's a , it 's it 's it 's a , it 's it 's making the word totally ineffectual . |
| 30 | Even the best sailors can be swept into them , apart from which they can cause all sorts of damage to your equipment . |