Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The successful outcome means that they intend to repeat it next year . |
| 2 | They intend to give us some notion of what they are when they roll out the application programming interface in 90 days . |
| 3 | They intend to give us some notion of what they are when they roll out the API in 90 days . |
| 4 | They keep paying us forty quid a month , I 'm gon na get a nice fourteen and a half grand this year . |
| 5 | Lucy : ( At school ) there used to be a group of white girls and a group of black girls , right and y'know , they start … once they 're on their own they 're alright but once they 're with their people they get a bit lippy so they start callin' me black bastard — ‘ Look at you you mother fucker ’ — an' all that fing . |
| 6 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 7 | No , looks as though they 've done you some sort of . |
| 8 | she was taken out of work one morning and now they 've bought her another car and I do n't where it 's happened but somebody 's gone into the back of her |
| 9 | I like them , they 've brought us central heating an' that , but we do n't want all these roads cutting into the green belt ; and you ca n't sneak up on anybody now when they can hear you coming a mile off . |
| 10 | And then it 's like as though they 've had them long windows , you know ? |
| 11 | how , how well they 've enjoyed it this morning I thought well I wished I 'd made the effort |
| 12 | They have taught us that man has meaning only on the condition that he view himself as meaningful . |
| 13 | Normally , if they have charged you insufficient tax and later discover the error , they will send you a supplementary demand requesting the balance owing . |
| 14 | ‘ I have also discussed the situation with the Football League and put the full facts to them and they have given me clear advice . |
| 15 | They have accorded it blind respect while considering it totally irrelevant to the real world . |