Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they want to join us in this enterprise , so much the better . |
| 2 | ‘ They want to charge you with all the murders and assaults and take you to court , day after tomorrow . ’ |
| 3 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman will ask his constituents to remember that if they want to do something about that matter there is one answer — to buy the best food that there is , and that is British produced . |
| 4 | Now this time we 're here for four weeks so it would probably be that they want to get everybody through this time without anybody escaping the net . |
| 5 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 6 | But just when you think you know what they mean , they stop meaning anything at all — workflow systems and groupware have arrived |
| 7 | They keep telling us about this poll tax , they 've got to cut the staff and then they decide that they 're going to give this man this money . |
| 8 | Erm and then once they 've organized themselves into these associations their first er job should be , or was perhaps , I 'm not he 's talking about what has actually happened I suppose |
| 9 | they 've put him in another . |
| 10 | They 've put it from that wall , and they 've stuck it on to this wall . |
| 11 | Most places where erm , you know they 've got them in that , where you go |
| 12 | is n't that nice , they 've got them in all colours ! |
| 13 | They 're doing five and seven so they 've got one above each other . |
| 14 | Oh they 've got one near those shops in Humana ? |
| 15 | Or , they maybe replacing some of these but they got plenty of these , or they 're replacing some of these but they 've got plenty of these ? |
| 16 | But in the main we will lift whatever they want if they 've got something like that in existence if not we 'll do it for them . |
| 17 | oh yeah they 've got something like that down erm |
| 18 | They 've got themselves into this mess in just nine months . |
| 19 | They 've got none of that stuff there have they ? |
| 20 | Now usually that 's what students are very good at because they 've learnt something about that . |
| 21 | Maybe they 've taken it from that video . |
| 22 | They 've had them in this one . |
| 23 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 24 | Garfinkel 's interest is not in whether they are right or wrong in perceiving it in this way , but rather in how they come to perceive it in this way , and what effect this perception has on their actions . |
| 25 | On the face of it , this is similar to accommodation theory : speakers approximate their interlocutors ' linguistic behaviour , or distance themselves from it , depending on whether or not they wish to identify themselves with that individual . |
| 26 | The two friends I went fishing with have been at work today but they have said nothing about any practical joke . |
| 27 | Because they could n't meet c could n't meet what they were previously doing they have altered it in such a way as to make it easy to achieve . |
| 28 | On top of that , they have shackled themselves with some of the most inane and restrictive laws imaginable , laws that leave you wondering what on earth they were thinking about . |
| 29 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ They have told me about these steps they have taken to check this out and I 'm really delighted with their attitude . |