Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They forget they are mere statistics . |
| 2 | ‘ They say they 're dope-testing jockeys of the first three , ’ he muttered out of the side of his mouth . |
| 3 | They say it is good news and they will shop where its cheaper . |
| 4 | They say it 's normal procedure at other Universities to wash contaminated materials like rubber gloves and glass containers . |
| 5 | They say it 's great news and the town needs jobs . |
| 6 | They say it 's one step closer to further privatisation within the prison service ; something that leaves a bad taste in their mouths . |
| 7 | They say it 's pure magic . " |
| 8 | They say it was great fun — and thought the able bodied that disabled people can contribute just as much — and sometimes more — as others . |
| 9 | ‘ They say he 's one sort of person when he 's out in the open among people — he can be very sweet — but that he 's a different sort of person altogether behind the walls of his own house . ’ |
| 10 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 11 | But the uncanny resemblance did n't bother the screen tough guys … after all , they know they 're hot shots in their own rights . |
| 12 | When students come across it they assume it is some sort of technical language . |
| 13 | They believe it was deliberateley set upon by lurcher dogs . |
| 14 | They reckon it was all Quigley 's fault . |
| 15 | They were a couple in their mid-fifties , I 'd say , but dressed like they thought they were twenty years younger . |
| 16 | I do n't know where they got my name , or why they thought I was suitable material for their article . ’ |
| 17 | They thought it was all part of his evident ‘ foolishness ’ . |
| 18 | But shoppers differed on whether they thought it was good news . |
| 19 | All that summer I was ill — they said they thought it was glandular fever — but I know it was my way of reacting to my father 's death . |
| 20 | And er process was er match-guising so it was You know they were list They listened to three different people well th th they thought it was three people it was one person doing three ac the three accents er dialects sorry . |
| 21 | The menu plan they gave me was all doughnuts , porridge with cream , big steaks , milky drinks and huge puddings . |
| 22 | They think they 're wonderful people who can never do anything wrong . |
| 23 | Police now want to talk to a number of people who were in St Giles just before the attack … they think they are vital witnesses . |
| 24 | ‘ People are a bit wary of discounted books ; they think they are old books . ’ |
| 25 | They think we are cold fish and sloppy in our appearance . |
| 26 | ‘ They live right by the place the going-up jets go from and they think it 's some sort of magic place ! ’ he said . |
| 27 | Even for the pushiest But I mean , they 've they were owing money years ago , they sort of said there having Christmas on Access . |
| 28 | They said it was some illness he had when he was young . |
| 29 | But it must have been something connected to the the French when the they said it was French polishing . |
| 30 | They said it was half way through |