Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , although I 'm not so bitchy as to suggest women want him only for what they can get , nine times out of ten it 's probably the truth . ’ |
| 2 | But because of natural bodies we know not the construction , but seek it from the effects , there lies no demonstration of what the causes be we seek for , but only of what they may be . |
| 3 | Well I know they 're not allowed to dig down like what they used to do . |
| 4 | They cobble workings together from whatever they can scrape up . |
| 5 | The experience of other countries and movements , particularly European social democracy , provided much from which they could learn ; and the future lay in a cooperative rather than confrontational relationship between the USSR and the wider world from which both sides could benefit . |
| 6 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
| 7 | if they wanted to come along to it they could |
| 8 | If you give in to them they will do it even more and they will think they have won , ’ she said . |
| 9 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 10 | It helps if couples can think in advance about what retirement will be like-to think individually about what they 'd like to happen , and even more importantly , to talk to each other about what they 'd like to happen . |
| 11 | Just like what they would do . |
| 12 | The group of gentlemen who prepared the list and signed the covering letter to Panmure , however , emphasised that unless Panmure wrote the letters in favour of James Milne which they had requested , then their friend would withdraw ‘ & let your declared oposers run away with what they could not , were you either present or your intrest heartily interposed ’ . |
| 13 | Does , does it call into question the fact that that was really what the peasants did think and believe , or were the peasants opportunists , and if they felt they could get away with anything they would get away with anything ? |
| 14 | People do n't follow through on what they can see , erm and what erm might be there . |
| 15 | She believed that ‘ representation without taxation ’ led to councils gaining support more for what they could promise as spenders rather than save as prudent housekeepers . |
| 16 | I always think that if someone tries to get close to me they must want something from me . |
| 17 | Getting on with what you should be doing that can only see a few people doing that who are actually getting on with what they should have been doing while you are waiting . |
| 18 | With an inconvenient house and stuck out on that headland with nothing to look at but a ruined abbey and that atomic power station they 'll have to put up with what they can get . ’ |
| 19 | He said : ‘ Keith Fletcher and Graham Gooch are both members of the TCCB 's cricket committee and we shall listen carefully to whatever they might have to say in their end-of-tour reports . |
| 20 | If shares have different amounts paid up on them they will be regarded as constituting separate classes ( Re United Provident Assurance Co Ltd [ 1910 ] 2 Ch 477 ) . |
| 21 | She wants to catch up on everything they can teach her about themselves , because then she can learn about herself . |
| 22 | that since it was up to them they 'd rather not . |
| 23 | For for senior citizens do you I mean do you think the the the rent up to what they should be or not ? |
| 24 | However , he knew that if he failed to live up to it they would not take his word again . |
| 25 | Autobiographies and interviews , each constrained both by what children could see and also by what they would remember as significant , offer inevitably partial glimpses of the experience of ageing . |
| 26 | Or the fall out about it they could still all three prove . |
| 27 | Such a system stresses economic self-interest as all-important , rather than community spirit , public duty and so on ; everybody is out for what they can get . |
| 28 | But my favourites are definitely the ambitious Punjabi boys out for what they can get : |
| 29 | She attested in September 1939 that ‘ universally , householders have been shocked at the disgraceful and disgusting conditions in which a certain portion of the population lives ’ , and that ‘ the low slum type form the majority of the mothers , some out for what they can get , most of them dirty , many of them idle and unwilling to work or pull their weight ’ . |
| 30 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |