Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said well frankly Cheryl with her record I 'm not in I said she takes off when she pleases , she comes down when she wants something I said she doing me some good at christmas I said I do I quite understand that I said I do understand and I 'm I 've nothing nothing to do with me that 's entirely up to you and she said and you would n't tell me what to do you wo n't change our minds , I said no I 'm not trying to change your minds but you asked me what I would do I said and I think there and now she 's She said and I do n't care what you done , I 'll do I 'll do , I said she 's got hundreds of where they smash the windows and break into so regularly . |
| 2 | Examples were given of regular meetings or occasions which enabled workers to identify and keep track of people in the community , regardless of whether they had the status of an active case . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , as the all-party talks on the future administration of the Province are stalled , probably until after the general election , and as the previous review of local government in Northern Ireland took place more than 20 years ago , this is an ideal moment for an independent body to be asked to consider the structure and limited powers of present local authorities in terms of whether they meet the contemporary aspirations of people in Northern Ireland ? |
| 4 | They were just wandering about as if they owned the place . ’ |
| 5 | Michael and Geoffrey walked into the spacious hallway as if they owned the house . |
| 6 | The assassins had walked in here as if they owned the place and destroyed everything . |
| 7 | The boatman cursed , telling them to sit down and keep still , and then , puffing and sweating , he pulled his craft out midstream through the flocks of swans who arched their wings in protest as if they owned the river . |
| 8 | Beyond the crowd , almost out of the Market Square altogether , two male riders waited as if they mistrusted the milling crowd . |
| 9 | And she was so toffee-nosed as if they said the curtains . |
| 10 | I have subsequently discovered in them something which is not easy to admit even to myself : it is as if they anticipated the present . |
| 11 | And you do n't fall asleep , as you are inclined to do if you try to be an absorbent sponge , soaking in what the authors say as if they had the last word . |
| 12 | They 'd just been told the George Hotel was n't important enough to be listed , but the protestors vowed to physically stop the demolition team if necessary and it looked as if they had the backing of the Planning Authority . |
| 13 | This is achieved by treating highly selective versions of experience and life as if they covered the whole range of experiential processes and forms of living , which , in fact , excludes the normal experiences and lives of the vast majority of the population . |
| 14 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 15 | McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned , whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other , untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour . |
| 16 | The leeches look as if they have the faces of the bodies they have burst from , and they are capable of rearing up and attacking with a cluster of teeth around a central sucker . |
| 17 | Instead they took refuge in the weaker claim that agents , on average over time , behaved as if they possessed the correct underlying model for the purposes of prediction . |
| 18 | In this context penalties are implicitly treated as if they gave the exact decrease in objective function when a variable is branched on ( as opposed to just a bound ) . |
| 19 | Both Prince and policeman , their hands clasped confidently behind their backs , move as if they own the world . |
| 20 | During this time I was able to develop some understanding of the sorts of backgrounds my interviewees came from , what their hopes , fears , values and experiences of life had been like before they joined the movement and how these might have changed since . |
| 21 | This generally results in large radiation shields , which are unpractical to work with as they reduce the operator 's movements . |
| 22 | They 're all covered with smoke and grime left over from before they passed the Clean Air Bill , and the only place that might once have looked good is the Methodist Chapel at Southwark that 's been taken over by Fundamentalists . |
| 23 | The pleadings are somewhat convoluted but must be referred to because they contain the facts , as is normal in a demurrer . |
| 24 | WP Certainly , people respond to whether they perceive the world as threatening or reassuring . |
| 25 | The search of the general practice medical record was used to categorise patients according to whether they attended the general practice only ( n=171 ; 56% ) or whether they also attended the hospital ( n=137 ; 44% ) . |
| 26 | Prejudgments should stand or fall according to whether they pass the statutory test of section 2(2) by causing a substantial risk of serious prejudice to the proceedings in question . |
| 27 | These categories were grouped according to whether they furthered the task functions or whether they aided inter-personal relations , or socio-emotional functions , as Bales called them . |
| 28 | Scotland Yard refused to comment on whether they believed the IRA were responsible . |
| 29 | As the election approached , voters ' awareness of opinion polls became less dependent upon their interest in politics and on whether they read the highbrow press rather than the tabloids . |
| 30 | At some theatres , the Minstrels are asking the audience to vote at the half-time interval on whether they want the makeup added . |