Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scum are rampant ( although they owe it all to ooh-ah ) . |
| 2 | These people here are very over-careful you know , they just like to cover every eventuality so they asked us all to ring our families even though there is n't a thing wrong … . ’ |
| 3 | It 's not that bad , it 's just that red and green are fairly important colours to people who try to wave down planes and things like that , so they told me that being a pilot was definitely out . |
| 4 | They decided they wanted to make me look unusual , to make me look ‘ spacey ’ , and so they cut it all off . ’ |
| 5 | all these drugs he 's been having , so they gave him some er tablets and er , he said on Sunday he was in such pain , so he said try these , he has given me some before , but er , you 're supposed to take two and I was only taking one |
| 6 | I did n't really believe the , so they showed me these pictures of themselves with Mr Brando , on his Tahitian island , their arms round him . |
| 7 | They did n't like the turkey so they threw it all away . |
| 8 | And I went , I know everybody had a piece of this chocolate on their plates , but there was nothing else I could do , once they saw it that was it . |
| 9 | If they eat it all , people will realize how healthy they are ! |
| 10 | I would n't stay here if they offered me half of the Palace . |
| 11 | Well that 's if they clamp you that 's what they do |
| 12 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 13 | And then again if they pay me this money as an ex gratia payment . |
| 14 | I 'll tell you if they give me that . |
| 15 | Come back in a week for a check-up and to have the majority of the sutures out , or earlier if they give you any trouble or get infected . |
| 16 | He did n't fancy Lizzy 's chances much if they decided they all wanted a bit of the action . |
| 17 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |
| 18 | Cliff that 's why they did it , cos they put them all together . |
| 19 | cos they book it all at the same time |
| 20 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 21 | Not unless they give us some . |
| 22 | Er , and it 's sung in two languages , either in French , or in Flemish , because they speak them both over there . |
| 23 | Caroline discovered that Nicolo had not bought too much food , because they finished it all , right down to the last bit of crusty , delicious bread . |
| 24 | His comments were useful because they provide us all with the opportunity to see what the Opposition have in mind and the approach that they will take in the run-up to the next election and if they were ever to be elected to government . |
| 25 | Yachting World readers are being offered a 10 per cent discount on the price of the service , providing they send them this page of Yachting World . |
| 26 | In go the Pyramids , Atlantis , the Holy Grail , the Knights Templar , the Freemasons , Napoleon , the Paris Metro map , Hitler , Ayers Rock and , unfortunately , much more besides ; out comes a dread secret to do with control of the ‘ telluric currents ’ which cause earthquakes or continental drift or something ; not that it much matters , since they made it all up . |
| 27 | About two years since they gave me that . |
| 28 | Right in school yeah , erm after they gave us these yeah and they like wan na see like how we talk and all that . |
| 29 | When they got it all home , the honeycombs were cut and drained through cloth into jars . |
| 30 | No when they hear it all day |