Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I see evaluation as a very democratic activity , which allows people perhaps to appreciate each other 's viewpoints a little more than might otherwise be the case erm and does n't pretend that people all feel the same about things , but at the same time it does n't attempt to sort of countermand the realities of the situation that , you know , each person ca n't go their own sweet way , there have to be quite a lot of collective decisions and people have to recognise where the majority opinion is , but at least they do it from a standpoint that erm where they feel their own value still has some worth and is still being recognised . |
| 2 | In other words , although they transferred their own Golden Age from the past to the future , a quasi-cyclical factor was involved . |
| 3 | Generics and conceptual anaphora ( Gernsbacher 1986 ) , and subsets resulting from quantification ( Moxey & Sanford 1987 ) may be included in this group , although they present their own problems for anaphoric interpretations . |
| 4 | Both she and Bernard were continually taken aback by the way their staff threw themselves into the Ashley enterprise — although they expected nothing less and , in different ways it was they who inspired their employees to rise above whatever talents they thought they could offer . |
| 5 | The scum are rampant ( although they owe it all to ooh-ah ) . |
| 6 | They won only three of the 15 races although they held their own until just past the halfway stage . |
| 7 | Negative voting was also a significant feature of the election , 59% of all voters disliking the other party ( or parties ) more than they liked their own . |
| 8 | Moreover , insofar as a nationalist aristocracy fought for democracy , so they undermined their own privilege : |
| 9 | 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 … . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They decided they wanted to make me look unusual , to make me look ‘ spacey ’ , and so they cut it all off . ’ |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 14 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They did n't like the turkey so they threw it all away . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If they eat it all , people will realize how healthy they are ! |
| 19 | I would n't stay here if they offered me half of the Palace . |
| 20 | Well that 's if they clamp you that 's what they do |
| 21 | But this may also attract criticism from parents if they make their own comparisons about trends and innovations . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So if they kept your half day |
| 24 | Samuel Smith took the view that the spiritual needs of deaf people could only be properly provided for if they had their own church and an ordained minister . |
| 25 | ‘ Will — um — any of the Massingham staff be moving here , do you know ? ’ she asked Jimmy , trying desperately not to be alarmed , but , well schooled in dealing with the profitability side of company business , unable to see Massingham 's keeping on Vasey staff if they had their own people able to do the work . |
| 26 | And then again if they pay me this money as an ex gratia payment . |
| 27 | Even then the provisions under the Act were fairly limited : the penal laws were not repealed , but Protestant Dissenters were merely given immunity from prosecution if they held their own religious services , provided their meeting-houses were licensed and the doors were left open when they met . |
| 28 | For example , in at least one rural area , we have heard of a tendency for professional people to send their children to the nearby town or another village school if they feel their own village school is unsatisfactory . ’ |
| 29 | I 'll tell you if they give me that . |
| 30 | 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 . |