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Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	So we write lists , and we find that they 've probably got more skills than most people .
2	It really must make the school children feel that they 've really done some important research .
3	Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them .
4	It is interesting to find that they have somewhat unusual morphological forms , which may suggest that they do indeed make some sort of special call on speakers ' capacity for linguistic construction .
5	So I went rushing round to a friend of mine who fortunately had some and I said I want to see your walking , and I was much comforted to discover that they do actually use all six legs .
6	It is appears to be accepted in principle by Selby in paragraph two point eight of their submission , that they do actually accept this approach .
7	They also told me that they have already held several long meetings .
8	Most raw beginners think that they have adequately solved this problem if they quote R .
9	It is true that when they use words like " aggression " and - " altruism " ( which they do a great deal ) they make a pretence that they have somehow dissociated these terms from their human behavioural origins — but it is only a pretence .
10	Yesterday you mentioned that your contractors work to a pre-arranged schedule and it seems possible that they have accidentally omitted this stretch of Station Lane .
11	Yeah and they 've also got another bloke
12	And they 've just got more room have n't they ?
13	But it 's a bonus is n't it , because they 've had all this protection on this and they 've still got some cash building up .
14	They 've drawn 6 , though and they 've still got some steam left .
15	that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it .
16	and they 've always had this complete divide , personalities apart from anything else
17	The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er
18	If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great .
19	If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great .
20	The year 1917 saw the Russian Revolution and they have just had another one .
21	That Eliot tended to be curious in such matters , others have noted , and they have sometimes inferred some oddity in his own make-up .
22	Most people are also scared to get involved now , because of the reprisals if they 've actually reported some , to er , to a crime and you can a , understand that .
23	Students who fail the Case Study will be accredited with the five areas of study if they have successfully passed these and should be eligible for the grade of intermediate membership .
24	It is almost always difficult to discover how these men built their fortunes at the beginning , because they leave no significant mark in the records until they have already made some mark in society .
25	The Government have launched TECs , but they have then provided less funding than was envisaged .
26	Several newspapers have pursued the allegations against Mr Bush but have not published them because they have never found any supporting evidence , although rumours have occasionally been aired on radio and television .
27	They are also generally happier with a wider range of jobs , both in size and complexity because they have often cracked most of the problems already .
28	Having been a soldier in the First World War , he really knows what he is writing about and is a great contrast to some of the pretentious poets who preach about war while they have never seen any violence in their entire lives .
29	England 's second place is slightly surprising , as they seem either to win all their matches ( as in two series against Richards 's men ) or lose them all ( as in 4–0 against Australia last winter ) .