Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October he summoned to Amman the local notables favourable to his rule , where they asked him to put all Arab-occupied Palestine under his protection . |
| 2 | These Rules may be disapplied by agreement in the case of non-private investors but where they apply they require that money is only held with certain approved banks and that the money in the account is , to the bank 's knowledge , a trust fund . |
| 3 | And if they knew it had all been |
| 4 | I mean if they insist they want all that I mean I 'll if they insist they want the interest as well then I 'm in er a bit of a spot |
| 5 | speaking on my own for my own personal point of view erm if they if they insist they want this full amount |
| 6 | ‘ Tell 'em it 'll cost an extra 50 grand if they want me to take all my clothes off and get in bed with Lucifer ’ |
| 7 | Why does n't this place provide models if they want us to get these things right ? ’ |
| 8 | Oh yes yeah outside yes and old programmes they sell at away matches , badges , season tickets as you might understand , but they , they are going to have a good day in April on the centenary day because they have it getting all the old players Tony says he , he 's been invited to attend as well and Gilbert I believe will be going and erm |
| 9 | Before they came we removed all trace of our connection to television , rearranged the office furniture a bit , and hid a camera in a bankers box . |
| 10 | The Greens returned home at half-past one in the morning , but were up to welcome the musicians for breakfast on their way further north ; before they left they sang some ‘ excellent glees . ’ |
| 11 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 12 | ‘ When they swarm they destroy all in their way . |
| 13 | The smell of the fungus attracts flies and when they land they collect some of the jelly on their legs , which they then carry away , so spreading the fungus . |
| 14 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 15 | He knew it was a case of mistaken identity when they urged him to bare all . |
| 16 | This fact tends to make full-time reserve police very cautious in their behaviour , for they feel they have less opportunity to ease , which further means that their opinion of some regulars is not good . |
| 17 | Cos as soon as they go it 's all gone a bit |
| 18 | Tenderness is that hideous , cooing voice you hear mothers using to their children as they get them to do this , go there , stay here . |
| 19 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 20 | As they grow they moult several times . |