Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] it [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 | They take the infantile mewing and they modify it to each situation in which they wish to express a need for something . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Lancashire men like women with a bit of fight in them , especially when they direct it at each other . |