Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’ |
| 2 | most of the changes that have been made to those houses have been er erm at the request of Newton Sherwood District Council , they the the they lifted the room pitch , we had a lower one , they wanted a higher one , erm , and you know , erm , all all basically erm the the although they counted it as a change since application |
| 3 | MacDonald concludes with the view that non-traditional students are an advantage to higher education although they present it with a challenge . |
| 4 | The managers I interviewed appeared to lack commitment to improving motivation , although they identified it as a problem . |
| 5 | Although they see it as a step in the right direction , people working in the area fear that it may take another generation before Karamoja cools down . |
| 6 | she goes to part-time so they get it at a reduced rate . |
| 7 | she said no , Jean said oh I ca n't walk that , have a bloody heart attack she says , so they put her in a trolley |
| 8 | ’ So they kept us in a few days . |
| 9 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 10 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 11 | In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop . |
| 12 | Yes , if they put you in a |
| 13 | cunt , wonder what that would be if they put it in a dictionary . |
| 14 | If they saw him in a play , they saw a middle-aged man pretending to be young , in an outdated vehicle that bore as much relation to their reality as crinolines and penny-farthings . |
| 15 | and you work on the computers what you 're gon na be and then it 'll be silly if they brought you to a nursery afterwards if you wanted to be |
| 16 | If they know everything about a job then they may well be able to fix the problems for you . |
| 17 | ‘ Even if they stop you on a busy shopping morning and ask you to sign petitions ? ’ |
| 18 | Even if they locked him in a dark cell and pulled out all his teeth with rusty pliers , he must keep his promise to Sweetheart and tell them nothing . |
| 19 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 20 | ‘ If they locate it outside a house , then they establish when it is there , and prepare an attack for that period . ’ |
| 21 | It was cheaper than the cinema , only a few pennies , and young people could sometimes get in for nothing if they attached themselves to an adult . |
| 22 | IF THEY find themselves in a tangle at an anti-social hour , the United Nations men now taking over in Somalia will at least have the chance of talking it over with their masters in New York — as well as with their unofficial masters in Washington . |
| 23 | Because he did n't , he stayed cos they class him as an A person . |
| 24 | Oh there was this interview with Mick Jagger yeah but like it must have been written about cos they described him as a neanderthal rocker . |
| 25 | Having escaped from their field , two goats wandered around for a while until they found themselves in a rubbish dump . |
| 26 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 27 | One point , just to add to what Liz is saying , and I support everything she 's said , one further point is that accuracy is terribly important because if you actually have a mistake in the press release , and the editors publish it or it 's broadcast and a whole lot of listeners or readers write in and complain , they 'll find it very hard to forgive you because they get themselves in a terrible problem , so do be sure you 're giving them accurate information all the time . |
| 28 | They took an end because they took them in a scheme where the kids actually got jobs what you 've done . |
| 29 | The world and its leaders reacted very differently to the news of Ceauşescu 's fall : Westerners , even those who had flattered him , rejoiced , but the rulers of Third World or Communist states mourned him — not only for his own violent end , but also because they saw it as a premonition of their own impending fates . |
| 30 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |