Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus ruling groups are likely to attempt to ‘ engineer the consent of the ruled ’ so that they accept their own subordination and disadvantage . |
| 2 | He did n't fancy Lizzy 's chances much if they decided they all wanted a bit of the action . |
| 3 | So if they kept your half day |
| 4 | However , by assimilating and making their own so many Greek gods , literary conventions , artistic forms , philosophical ideas and social customs , they put themselves and the Greeks in a unique reciprocal situation ; the more so because they made their own language an instrument of thought which could rival Greek and render Greek ideas with remarkable precision ( though the Greeks never quite accepted the fact ) . |
| 5 | " I do n't care chat becomes of me , So long as they sing me that sheet melody , Yip-I-Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay , Yip-I Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay . " |
| 6 | They tend to say , oh well , he 's black so it 's to be expected , they 're bound to do that , so when they give you that kind of attitude , you think oh well , blow them , if that 's what they think , why not act like that . |
| 7 | I felt my parents ' anxieties about both their own and their children 's lives so keenly that they became my own , quite against my will , and I had to fight to reject them . |
| 8 | ‘ I would have brought a copy away but they wanted them all . |
| 9 | People slag them 'cos they ca n't play properly and they get it all wrong . |
| 10 | When people start appealing to ‘ truth ’ , ‘ experience ’ and ‘ reality ’ , still more to ‘ the fundamental character of reality ’ , they imply very strongly that they know what these things are , an insight not likely to be shaken by argument . |
| 11 | They were treated well and they asked nothing more of life . |
| 12 | I would n't stay here if they offered me half of the Palace . |
| 13 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 14 | Come back in a week for a check-up and to have the majority of the sutures out , or earlier if they give you any trouble or get infected . |
| 15 | And then again if they pay me this money as an ex gratia payment . |
| 16 | There was more , of course , about sympathy and sorrow and about writing again when they had anything more to tell her . |