Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | Happiness can only be theirs if they honour that gift . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | … 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 … |
| 9 | They just behave like absolute pricks so that the ladies have no choice but to drop them if they have any self-respect . |
| 10 | They victimise you if they know two women are going together ; they really play on it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | if they if they did this i would it not give them practise at at being able to do the |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She 'd been abominably rude to him since they 'd first met . |
| 20 | In fact , as she clung to him while they shared another kiss , and then another , she was n't thinking at all . |
| 21 | ‘ This is Ca ’ del Serpente , ’ he told her as they drew level with a sinister-looking palazzo . |
| 22 | No wonder Piers had been so contemptuous of her when they had first met . |
| 23 | You see , I was with her when they met one day in the rose-garden and I watched their faces as they talked together . ’ |
| 24 | Oh , she should have paid more attention to him when they lay close ; she should have absorbed the hollows and smoothness of his brow and learned him by heart . |
| 25 | There were several female faces above her and the sounds of the street still reached her though they seemed distant and somewhat muffled . |
| 26 | And they said you know th there should have been a way round it where they kept this couple in there . |
| 27 | However Lord Denning was quick to point out that although local authorities had to have regard to the Code , they could depart from it if they thought fit . |
| 28 | After a while people get tired of hearing the same old thing and they 'll eventually turn their back on it if they hear enough of it , and they 'll turn to something else — like rap . |
| 29 | It follows that co-operative R&D is likely to raise total R&D spending if participants produce complementary products , and it may lower it if they produce substitute products . |
| 30 | Oh if you do n't think they look well then they obviously need it if they look better after they 've been watered , that 's what the paper says . |