Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] they [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The country areas are a softer option for them where they know some areas are no-gos for us because of manoeuvrability and the terrain . |
| 2 | But er er , just because I when they sing this song , this morning , cos Lesley told people like they 're singing it . |
| 3 | In all instances it is important for services to offer choice — some people need individual counselling or family work ; others merely want to talk to someone when they get desperate or need practical advice but are not yet ready to contemplate altering their habits . |
| 4 | Happiness can only be theirs if they honour that gift . |
| 5 | Then , when they were large enough , God brought them out and the mother took care of them until they grew big enough to take care of themselves . |
| 6 | I tell them I 'm the Conductor , tell them where my office is , tell them if they 've any problems to bring them to me . ’ |
| 7 | The thieves were said to enter the house at night , tie up the persons inside , threaten to murder them if they made any noise , dig up the floor to search for money , and so on . |
| 8 | I consider that it could only be of assistance to them if they had that foundation with which to commence their overview of the requirements of the case and the discharge of their statutory duty under the Children Act 1989 . |
| 9 | … and then we always have a time when the kids perform their pieces to one another , so first of all we as teachers can observe what is going on , and feed in comments to them if they need any technical help in terms of how to play musical instruments , etc … |
| 10 | They just behave like absolute pricks so that the ladies have no choice but to drop them if they have any self-respect . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing until they catch this fellow , whoever he is . |
| 12 | Who , who if they 've cold feet lies awake , till they warm up ? |
| 13 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 14 | They victimise you if they know two women are going together ; they really play on it . |
| 15 | Get them involved pro-actively as opposed to letting them sit there and snide at you cos they know more about it than you do . |
| 16 | Again this is a common and ‘ normal ’ reaction , but many people feel so ashamed of thoughts like these that they hardly dare express them unless they feel safe enough to do so and trust the person they are talking to sufficiently for such a revelation to seem acceptable . |
| 17 | Swindon were in a different league and could well be playing in one if they keep this up . |
| 18 | Cheshire lost their battle to stay in Division One when they lost 38–27 to Middlesex . |
| 19 | Although it could have been a genuine geographical variation , the fear was that staff were failing to record them because they thought this might lead to unresolvable problems which would jeopardise planning . |
| 20 | Now , normally in this programme when we talk about womens ' magazines , people are inveighing against them because they carry various advertisements that they find offensive or exploitative , but are women 's magazines actually erm performing quite a useful job by filling in the gaps that that schools and parents are are failing to address ? |
| 21 | He 's putting them back in his pocket , he do n't ask anybody if they want any does he ? |
| 22 | No sooner do they see a beauty and fix their hearts upon her than they see another still more beautiful , and the first one no longer appeals to them . |
| 23 | I asked Jeanne to find as many friends as possible to accompany her on walks with Moby , and to give them control of the lead and take him away to explore without her if they felt confident . |
| 24 | if they if they did this i would it not give them practise at at being able to do the |
| 25 | A number of women have told me they voted for him because they felt sorry for him , because he was a trier , a bit of an underdog , because he was a hubby figure , the man they would most like to buy a pullover for , a man who knows where his slippers are . |
| 26 | She 'd been abominably rude to him since they 'd first met . |
| 27 | In fact , as she clung to him while they shared another kiss , and then another , she was n't thinking at all . |
| 28 | ‘ This is Ca ’ del Serpente , ’ he told her as they drew level with a sinister-looking palazzo . |
| 29 | No wonder Piers had been so contemptuous of her when they had first met . |
| 30 | You see , I was with her when they met one day in the rose-garden and I watched their faces as they talked together . ’ |