Example sentences of "[pron] they [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word for questioning postnominal attributives , which ? , fares no better : ( 4 ) which them does muzak drive ? ( 5 ) which keys did Ellen shake ? |
| 2 | Their political interests in maintaining and extending their social position and power depend on a stable regime which they help maintain through repression , through the manipulation of potential dissenting groups and through maintaining the loyalty of other powerful social classes who have a conflicting interest in the distribution of state income ( Ziemann and Lanzendorfer 1977 ) . |
| 3 | so which they do soften up |
| 4 | So let let's say , instead of quoting from nought , they said well a much more useful figure is perhaps , which they do quote in lots of these car magazines , is erm forty to sixty |
| 5 | However , while it is doubtless true that men pay an emotional price for the power they have , this should not blind us to the power and privileges from which they do benefit . |
| 6 | They may not be used routinely , but there certainly are circumstances in which they do provide assistance . |
| 7 | In the first place , actors never see all of the game and , even in the corner which they do see , they are not always transparent even to themselves . |
| 8 | Such children may not be in fact more intelligent than their schoolmates , but certainly they are able to exploit more fully the intelligence which they do have , and possibly be better-informed . |
| 9 | Meanwhile their parents — and wives — turn back to the only resource over which they do have some control , and produce more children : hoping against hope that this one might stay and help with the work on the land , or that one might be lucky enough to get an education and a job sufficiently secure and well-paid to bring security for all the family . |
| 10 | They are excluded from using more land , and they often work onerous hours on the land which they do own for a pittance . |
| 11 | Which they did do , but yesterday when Brian went to move the dust extractor that the radio was at the side of , there was wires hanging again like bloody clothes line again . |
| 12 | I think I would commend LIFE to you , but it will be with the same conditions and terms as we did last year , with which they did comply . |
| 13 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 14 | Yet this was in fact a pseudo-problem because Catholics do not worship Mary , but honour her as mother of the Christ whom they do worship . |
| 15 | For , as the report went on to show , the problem is not that manufacturers employ too few people , but that the few people whom they do employ produce much less than their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 16 | But by then their finances were already weakened by the takeover frenzy of the late 1980s and by their alliance with Robert Campeau , whom they helped buy Federated Stores in the United States . |
| 17 | But some of them they do put on I do n't think are worth putting on at all ! |
| 18 | they they they do give you an option just to start off very low . |
| 19 | Now I do n't think of us here and neither , certainly myself , I I would not claim to be any form of artist or expert but I think a lot of us can enjoy er getting our hands dabbling with paint erm paper mâché and other activities and in fact having that opportunity of ex enjoying those experiences that 's we ought to be able to offer to people in Cambridge and many peop children in schools they they do get opportunities but I think particularly amongst older people who 've never had that opportunity and I think you should be do so . |
| 20 | So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end . |
| 21 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 22 | But of course , I mean , we know little about it they do say if you have had a heart attack it 's no good you know , as soon you get up and you start eating going for five mile walks |
| 23 | We 'll see what they say see what they say afterwards . |
| 24 | ‘ Still , ’ said Toby , ‘ I 'd like to know what they did do . |
| 25 | But that was exactly what they did want , a whole album . |
| 26 | What they did want was a spacious , easy-to-fly machine that was cheap to buy , long-lasting , simple to fix without the benefit of workshop facilities , and had a half-ton payload with superlative short-field performance . |
| 27 | One Sunday morning , that was precisely what they did want . |
| 28 | But erm they 're bloody daft if they did what they did last time anyway ! |
| 29 | What they did realise was that their grand design must afford an acceptable challenge for both the average player and the accomplished player . |
| 30 | Yeah but yo , that 's what they did change , you looking for the fault ? |