Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then she checked Well anyway the week after he 'd phoned there was no what you call in it so he wrote it in to the damn thing and said why is it when some people puts adverts in they not only put it in once they put it in three or four times the same week |
| 2 | In general , there is evidence that children who have developed a sensitivity to cow 's milk may become sensitive to soya proteins as well , if they consume them in large quantities . |
| 3 | Fluoride helps to toughen the protective enamel on children 's teeth , but wo n't prevent decay if they eat lots of sugary snacks . |
| 4 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 5 | Other regions of the kingdom , if they see themselves in similar plight , may take heart from a Northern intention and expression of spirit . |
| 6 | If they extend it to seven they will deserve automatic promotion . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not going to worry about it now , ’ said Pam , resolutely , ‘ but if they leave it like last time , I 'll kill them . ’ |
| 8 | And it depends on what they want if they want it to three decimal places with this |
| 9 | I have to track them down cos they put them in obscure places sometimes , but there are conference notice boards . |
| 10 | I mean we go round on a Saturday night and we come out stinking of smoke , cos they smoke one after another |
| 11 | were , was n't those gloves , they , it , it was their thermolactal that they , they sell always cos they do them in black and grey |
| 12 | Unless they 're being , unless they transmit them from one satellite to another . |
| 13 | That 's not because people had bigger families , it 's because they pack them with young , poor parents , ghettos for women and children . |
| 14 | Consequently the women get it in preference to the men , because they take it at lower rates " . |
| 15 | These wo n't damage you hair at all : in fact because they contain lots of conditioning agents they can make it much more shiny and manageable . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Even people we think of as being extremely rich will often grumble because they compare themselves with those who earn even more money than they do . |
| 19 | Providing they entertain us with stupendous performances , who cares if sponsors want to make them millionaires . |
| 20 | ( More for your reading list since they contain plenty of direct writing about writing ) . |
| 21 | Even feminist psychological theories which reject this biological concept completely , remain determined by it , since they define themselves by this rejection . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | But for some strange reason , and I do n't know whether they direct it to Christian the last shot of the film , almost unnoticeable because the credits were going up she went back into church and it was a communion service and all you saw was her receiving the bread and passing the plate and the plate was to the young black lad on the farm and you thought , he 's come back ! |
| 24 | If this is an important problem to the parent , they should practise at home saying ‘ no ’ before they do it in public . |
| 25 | You see , they 've got a card of the fella that did the thingy so , when they put him onto this other fella he says , er , yeah , his name were Mr so and so . |
| 26 | Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect . |
| 27 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 28 | The Business Plan goes back with the letter because they will require a copy of the business plan so that they when they see you at three , six , twelve and eighteen months |
| 29 | Lancashire men like women with a bit of fight in them , especially when they direct it at each other . |
| 30 | Though the Japanese are by no means a lazy or an idle race , and though they possess none of that apathetic indolence common to those Eastern races who dwell beneath a tropical sun , still all notions of speed , haste or flurry are utterly foreign to their nature . |