Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb base] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’ |
| 2 | Making sure that your candidate attends every meeting , for er s you know during er an election campaign they 've got to attend all the meetings . |
| 3 | Because some physicians regard IBS as a diagnosis of exclusion they feel compelled to exclude all organic disease . |
| 4 | But with a certain amount of bemusement they 've had to overcome several problems to meet their latest challenge . |
| 5 | Neither the state nor its government is a person ; they are collections of people , and if none of these separate people has acted in any way inconsistently with his or her own principles , what sense can it make to say that the state they represent has done this ? |
| 6 | I can only assume this is the reason they have failed to make any progress in hunting down our missing grandstand . |
| 7 | And whether the wheel is turning too fast for them to cope with it somewhere along the line they 've lost control any and there 's still I 'm told young many a time a good shop steward and a good management should be a good team together , but erm unless they can work in harmony you know it 's no good . |