Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the extent that Europeans know of this Oxbridge dominance , my experience is that they regard it with some satisfaction ( they have generally heard of Oxford and Cambridge ) , but that their satisfaction changes to complacency when they reflect upon what they believe to be the uniquely class-ridden structure of English society . |
| 2 | Yet we can not claim that our sensory reality is more real than theirs : that we see it the ‘ right ’ way and that they see it in some less than real manner . |
| 3 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 4 | But the speakers that you are observing ‘ know ’ how to use the resources of variation available to them , and they use them for many purposes , including the marking of varying social roles and functions . |
| 5 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 6 | They took me along and they put me into this dormitory . |
| 7 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |
| 8 | They take the infantile mewing and they modify it to each situation in which they wish to express a need for something . |
| 9 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 10 | I mean we go round on a Saturday night and we come out stinking of smoke , cos they smoke one after another |
| 11 | Whilst agreeing in part but disagreeing substantially with the assumptions of Ludmer , I felt — and still feel — that the attraction of sport for black kids is a little more complex and that any full understanding can not assume that sport constitutes an area freed of racialism , or that black youths are attracted to it simply because they see it as such . |
| 12 | They get cheaper insurance rates because their accident records are better ; they have fewer problems with their cars because they do n't thrash them ; and they probably expend far less nervous energy when they are driving , because they treat it like any other domestic activity . |
| 13 | Even people we think of as being extremely rich will often grumble because they compare themselves with those who earn even more money than they do . |
| 14 | Even feminist psychological theories which reject this biological concept completely , remain determined by it , since they define themselves by this rejection . |
| 15 | Can your B-I-L at least divulge whether todays players do actually save loads of dosh , or whether they squander it like most people do ? |
| 16 | You see , they 've got a card of the fella that did the thingy so , when they put him onto this other fella he says , er , yeah , his name were Mr so and so . |
| 17 | Lancashire men like women with a bit of fight in them , especially when they direct it at each other . |
| 18 | Though the Japanese are by no means a lazy or an idle race , and though they possess none of that apathetic indolence common to those Eastern races who dwell beneath a tropical sun , still all notions of speed , haste or flurry are utterly foreign to their nature . |
| 19 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |