Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.

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1 If they make stable contacts they pull the sheet to the site of contact , but others merely lose contact and are withdrawn .
2 " If they hate scientific evidence they certainly hate arithmetic more .
3 I mean some bands they come over here and they disappear , they forget England .
4 I mean some bands they come over here and they disappear , they forget England .
5 It is no good trying to convince some folks , if they want pure wool they are going to have it !
6 These funerary items were nearly always painted by heraldic amateurs — signwriters , coachbuilders and so on — so although they provide useful clues they should not be regarded as authoritative , but of course the fact that they are not can also form part of the story the local historian has to tell .
7 The subjects were required to understand the sentences and report any errors they noticed .
8 W/Cpl Burns informs the Volkspoliqei that their request is outside the terms of the Agreement , and that if they want any details they must call for a Soviet officer , to whom the information will be given .
9 Their productivity on both counts has been phenomenal : — the' Shrewsbury' grandchildren they mother total sixty-nine and they have also produced collectively in excess of one hundred and fifty publications — fiction and non-fiction , scientific and socio-political .
10 Does he agree that when Opposition parties advocate such bodies they do so with the entirely cynical objective of maintaining the over-representation of Scotland in this House in the aftermath of the dog 's breakfast called devolution ?
11 Well why did n't they get a mile away from where they put that money they could 've , they could 've been planned it away , a mile away all
12 But rather than meet this challenge , entitlement theorists simply take for granted that if original acquirers deserve any rights they deserve the full rights of liberal ownership , and hence assume , rather than demonstrate , the legitimacy of that which has to be justified : the institution of private property .
13 So when you first mean these things they 're weird
14 It 's a bit they , I mean these people they even do interest free credit
15 They say that if they create Regional Government they will do so at the expense of National Government and not Local Government , but that is n't true because Mister has already said that erm strategic services such as passenger transport will b will be handed over to regions and if that goes obviously fire , police and strategic planning will be lost to us .
16 If women enjoy low status they may need sons for prestige as well as protection .
17 and a cable tidy , that sounds quite good , these are half price things for ten days only There 's a remote control colour television for one thirty nine , ninety nine , save fifty pounds they 've got the dear tapes here look , erm six and a half hours video tapes , recommended price seven ninety nine can get for three ninety nine and there 's another one here three pack , twelve hours video tape for six ninety nine must end Saturday November the twenty ninth , oh perhaps I 'll buy you one of those , oh I have bought you a birthday present have n't I ?
18 I am aware , though , that when some readers first open this book they may find a few of the ideas discussed superficially intimidating .
19 To the extent that these regulations impose absolute duties they may , accordingly , provide any persons injured thereby with an effective civil remedy .
20 Unless they become tribesmen when they acquire national membership they will lack those affiliations and loyalties below the level of nation which are identical in kind to national loyalty , and which sustain and give meaning to the existence of born Libyans : a system which derives nationhood from family and tribe does not easily accommodate immigrants .
21 When the pair finish one car they go back to the beginning of their segment and start on another .
22 A Friends of the Earth spokesman said : " Mr Justice Hutchison has given the government extremely wide powers to take our best open spaces and give any land they like in exchange .
23 Ageing people usually relish any opportunity they have to express their feelings .
24 In a modern society , it is — more or less — up to the individuals or couples to choose the age at which they marry or enter into one kind of conjugal union or another , to decide whether they should have a child or children or not , mow many children they want to have and at what intervals , and to opt for an age at which they want to cease childbearing , etc .
25 If you develop good habits they will stand you in good stead in your business and managerial career .
26 It 's like slang like , if two people do n't know each other they talk like formally but if two people know each uvver they use slang , you know to get across because they know each other personally .
27 There will be at least two of them , but even if they know each other they wo n't know anybody else except the one man who took them on and will eventually pay them .
28 You know you know some people they lose them a bit young do n't they .
29 You know these youngsters they were n't prepared to stay on that gate .
30 The shelves , I quite like these shelves they 're nice !
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