Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] they [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not opposed to links when they 're relevant , I 've in fact argued and encouraged them and defended them where they 've taken place and I believe that they were important but I do n't believe in them taking place where they 're irrelevant and er where they er are unhelpful . |
| 2 | awful when you hear about yourself , it is horrible and you hear something that someone 's said about you and you think how can they , they just spent the whole day with me or they 've spent , you know exactly your situation like , couple of years of your life with you |
| 3 | ‘ For nothing , David , ’ said Julia , knowing that it was her fault and not his that they had got so near the brink . |
| 4 | I told them I would n't have her , I , I if they wanted to go on holiday I would n't have her , I could n't have her in here she 'd knock everything to bits , try to move everything in here that she would n't chew |
| 5 | Deciding that you want to go out with someone because they happen to fit into this year 's idea of what is good looking is stupid . |
| 6 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 7 | I got my membership booklet today ( at first I though they had sent me a season ticket by mistake ) . |
| 8 | Nothing that they sought eluded them , no matter the price . |
| 9 | ‘ … this is only the beginning of what they will do ; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them ’ ( 11.6 ) . |
| 10 | It was only after they had peered into and groped about in what they felt certain was the right cave but found nothing that they decided to withdraw into the trees and wait for the dawn . |
| 11 | I went to my old school in West Ham recently to talk to the children there and er the master to me that they 've got a bomb trail . |
| 12 | Pep talk from my assistant commissioner , a pointless press conference , further inconclusive forensic reports , lots of people ringing up and calling in to tell me that they 've got nowhere . |
| 13 | He was telling me that they 'd died of the frost or something . |
| 14 | Younis told me that they 'd taken my picture because I 'd hidden it . |
| 15 | Indeed some editors of specialist columns and journals tell me that they like to receive good background material so that they can keep it to use as a reference for future articles . |
| 16 | I would never punish any child who did n't agree with me that they had done something … |
| 17 | Work-place acquaintance can safely be assumed to explain most of these weddings — though as it happens , two of the surviving women compositors , one who married a compositor from another printing office , and one whose husband worked at Bartholomew 's the map-printers , told me that they had met their future husbands at social gatherings unconnected with work . |
| 18 | But managers told me that they had learned from the experience . |
| 19 | Onlookers admitted to me that they had come simply to see the tragic spectacle of the naked bodies — some of which were badly burned . |
| 20 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |
| 21 | One of their men boasted to me that they intend killing the ministers . |
| 22 | An acquaintance who is well-informed as to the intentions of the Liberals writes to me that they propose to make a big plan of public works the centre of their election programme . |
| 23 | Bits and pieces are still filtering out from IBM Corp 's conference call with analysts after its third quarter figures last week , and its director of investor relations Jim Clippard finally acknowledged that IBM could cut its workforce even more than the 25,000 announced in December , late in second quarter or in the third quarter : ‘ It 's clear to me that they have to go well beyond the 25,000 , ’ said PaineWebber analyst Stephen Smith , ‘ Maybe even 50,000 ; ’ analysts told Reuter that IBM said the majority of its targeted 25,000 plus staffers will leave the company during the second quarter , leaving it open to another plan in the second half of 1993 . |
| 24 | It 's about the third or fourth ti me that they have seen it — the same is probably true for most of the videos on the camp . |
| 25 | But they tell me that they have put forward two possible solutions . |
| 26 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 27 | Dacia was not strong enough to beat off the barbarians , and not rich enough to satisfy them once they had conquered it . |
| 28 | Ouston summarizes such a view : ‘ Successful schools appear to prevent too many difficulties arising rather than being exceptionally skilled in dealing with them once they have arisen ’ ( Ouston 1981 ) . |
| 29 | It is far easier to prevent behaviour problems from developing than it is to correct them once they have become entrenched habits . |
| 30 | It is hard for foster parents to cope with very demanding and disturbed children and no less hard to part with them once they have learnt to love them . |