Example sentences of "they [vb base] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notices attached to them make this plain . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that for the fathers the Devil is the Enemy , and on the whole most of them stress this even more than did St Paul himself . |
| 3 | Both of them find this funny . |
| 4 | If they so desperately want a child why should n't they for one occasion , if they are lesbian or whatever , use a man for that occasion and let the women who have a family , and who want a child and ca n't have them use this IV programme which is marvellous ! |
| 5 | But they concede this is likely to take the form , sooner or later , of a less demanding timetable of deficit cuts . |
| 6 | They review this possibility annually and he explained that when they have identified children who will go back they let them go into mainstream school for at first a morning and then one day a week . |
| 7 | Roses and orchids are too obviously beautiful , and so they lack this remnant of grace : maybe , if there is any harmony left for us to discover , maybe we shall as soon apprehend it in dog shit or an old man 's spittle , sizzling on the grate . |
| 8 | The West Indian families have different values — they still put a lot of faith in education , but it 's the way they bring this home to the kids that causes the problems . |
| 9 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
| 10 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 11 | I said , I 'll Well they sell fruit and they sell this and they Well , I said , the I i that 's my trade I said , the fruit and the sweets like you know more . |
| 12 | They hide this from their parents so as not to add to their pain , but need someone with whom they can share unacceptable feelings . |
| 13 | So even if ministerial loyalties make it hard to admit it , he probably shares the apprehension which haunts many others as they contemplate this Bill : that though , at the end of the day , quantity will increase , quality will diminish ; or to put it in a form of words which trips easily off Conservative lips on other occasions — that More is going to mean Worse . |
| 14 | ‘ They know that if they lose this one , then a gap opens up at the top . |
| 15 | I 'm never sure if they eat this weed cos it does n't look as if it 's going anywhere . |
| 16 | When people fall in love they develop this sudden resilience , have you noticed ? |
| 17 | think that the effects of training should be the main focus of research on gender differences in spatial abilities , but they connect this programme to ‘ a sincere wish to see what cognitive sex differences might remain if the sexes were treated without discrimination ’ ( 1986 : 1017–18 ) . |
| 18 | Using plenty of knockabout humour and a vigorous comedia dell'arte energy , they unfold this sinister tale of wood brought to life ! |
| 19 | Discussing the proposals of Holland and Benn designed to rectify the short-fall in investment in the British economy they make this point : |
| 20 | it 's too late then , that 's what A Angie said , Angie said , you know they , they make this and it 's too late you ca n't undo the , the , it 's a lie ! |
| 21 | Unless we are more attentive , the Guatemalan refugees are about to be ignored again as they suffer this time not from the cold war , but the ‘ new world order ’ . |
| 22 | They combine this with occasional épater-les-bourgeois outbreaks . |
| 23 | If they voice this concern to the general practitioner or health visitor this may result in the first step being taken in the identification of a visual problem , but unfortunately there can be instances in which the defective vision is not detected until the child has a pre-school medical . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're concentrating even harder on giving customers what they want this year , ’ says boss Nigel McGinley . |
| 25 | Teachers often say they want this kind of material because of its interest value . |
| 26 | He says it 's come to my knowledge cos er they want this and that and the other . |
| 27 | They await the general election with enthusiasm because they want this wretched Government out of office . |
| 28 | They want this suspender clip to be one inch lower , they want this seam double sewn . ’ |
| 29 | They want this suspender clip to be one inch lower , they want this seam double sewn . ’ |
| 30 | speaking on my own for my own personal point of view erm if they if they insist they want this full amount |