Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 2 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
| 3 | They may bear grievances about the fact that they are locked up in prison , perhaps for longer than they feel they deserve or for longer than other offenders whom they regard as comparable . |
| 4 | sober he can do more than they do I mean i that ai n't the sort bloke you wan na lose , and I 'm , when he balls and shouts at them well he gets on your nerves really but at the end of the day I 'll you know , I 'll put up with it . |
| 5 | things are looking clearer now than they did you know a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | However , their nine-year-old son , Justin , did n't want to conform to his parents minimalist style , so they let him choose his own furniture from Habitat . |
| 7 | He nearly had a nervous breakdown so they made him go to Plumford . |
| 8 | Once they heard her say , ‘ But Harry , you ca n't keep on — ’ And then she must have put a hand over the mouthpiece , because they did not hear anything else until , suddenly , another voice spoke . |
| 9 | Once they made me jump , another couple of them , a couple of years ago . |
| 10 | The principal focus of long-wave theories is historical , offering a framework for conceiving the movement of economies over time so that , if they help us understand the modern UK economy , they do so by locating the present in a pattern that covers the past and the future . |
| 11 | Look out for similar promotions elsewhere and even if there 's no discounts , the right products are still worth having if they help you do a good job . |
| 12 | but then they could hit you on the head if they saw you 've got it with you . |
| 13 | I 'm sure that if they saw you cry , I swear to God if they saw you crying things would be slightly different . |
| 14 | if anybody can sort of if you write in English , maybe could send it to you , could get it translated at the Stortford , oh that might be very useful , erm , I mean , I 'll certainly do some letters and if anybody else wants to , if they let me know I 'll let them have the addresses for them , erm , there are fax as well and that suppose to be a quicker way than writing a letter actually than send through a fax , right , erm , if anybody can then we could send them to you and , and ask you to send it on , and we would sort of postage , would be covered would it Margaret ? |
| 15 | oh Barbados , but we have to seen if their teletext if they let us do , but I 've just talked to Jamaican people and they said their , their friend he got some contact wanting some order , then later on this lady says no it 's best thing to do go |
| 16 | Ca n't let this go on , they 'll be in trouble if they let it go on . |
| 17 | Stuart wondered if they made him stand out there , or if he chose to . |
| 18 | I mean , I think there is too much media pressure on us , and I do n't think we should all be a size 10 , but on the other hand , everyone feels better if they feel they look good ; it 's natural . |
| 19 | As Grey 's colleague John Chilton says , the villagers will take more care of their new systems if they feel they belong to them . |
| 20 | Anglican polemicists had promised that they would allow the Dissenters some degree of toleration , if they helped them protect the Church of England from the Catholic onslaught , whilst the bishops in their petition affirmed that they did not act " from any want of due tenderness to Dissenters , in relation to whom they are willing to come to such a temper as shall be thought fit , when the matter shall be considered and settled in Parliament and Convention " . |
| 21 | ‘ Then , if they see you do n't try , they chuck it back in your face . |
| 22 | I then expect I will be tortured , and if they see I do n't die they will poison me . |
| 23 | If they do they have forgotten that , like them , every member of their audience ‘ has an inborn sense of measuring time ... |
| 24 | People can ‘ change their luck ’ , and can in a way say ‘ No ’ to divine Providence , though of course if they do they have to stand by the consequences of their decision . |
| 25 | The fifty thousand well I if they do they have n't been able to what what we intend to do . |
| 26 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 27 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 28 | In fact , we 've stolen some nuclear weapons and we 're going to tell the government we 're going to blow up the whole country unless they let us play Wembley . ’ |
| 29 | Because they let him pick them up . |
| 30 | The more able in the group felt they ‘ could n't tell us anything we do n't already know ’ or they were ‘ depressing ’ , while the remainder said that they did not like them because they made them feel inadequate . |