Example sentences of "[adv prt] [subord] they [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We was carrying this ta erm table up the stairs and some boy knocked it and it fire alarms , everyone was , water started pouring down cos they have all the water as well , like , if it is a fire it was pouring |
| 2 | I 'll get some of those bricks up and put the stone things down cos they look better . |
| 3 | Miles , Bell and Gregory may be getting older , but there is not a First Division club who would not move in if they became available . ’ |
| 4 | The car is generally occupied by an idiot or two gazing strictly ahead either with expressions that lead you to think that they are convinced they are doing everyone else a favour , or that they are only sitting down because they have insufficient brain to walk and chew gum at the same time . |
| 5 | that have got six months where they want to get in before they get stuck into their studying again . |
| 6 | Do n't seem to slow down when they get older do they ? |
| 7 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 8 | The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) and his team are always ingenious in defending whatever the policy of the moment is ; it is just that that policy is changed so often that it leaves a little bit of a question mark over whether they have any plan or direction at all . |
| 9 | What stages do they go through as they acquire new words ? |
| 10 | He went among the beggars who congregated in tube-station entrances , looking them over as they sat hunched and huddled on steps . |
| 11 | For Wissenschaft has its limits , and the " unshakable faith " in its power ensures that its most gifted followers press on until they reach those limits and discover for themselves its ultimate powerlessness to solve the problem of existence . |
| 12 | The answer to that question would be that the Council 's actually the Councillors adopt an equal opportunity policy and that policy now has been adopted by the theatre trust and the theatre trust would n't put anything on if they feel sexist or racist or ageist . |
| 13 | Cos if anybody who could they come on if they caught cold and and |
| 14 | ‘ Poor people would be much better off if they had fewer children to feed and clothe . ’ |
| 15 | The consequence is that most single parents , who have to pay someone to look after their children while at work , are now worse off if they continue part-time work , and the number of single parents in work is likely to drop dramatically because of this change . |
| 16 | Cook and Mick Tait were both sent off as they lost 2–0 at home to Bury , and Willis was sent off the following week in a 4–1 defeat at Exeter , for whom Steve Moran scored a hat trick , Ellison replying from the penalty spot . |
| 17 | And there was one in , , he 's packed up cos they 've these houses . |
| 18 | The three riders came on , but giving the feeling that they were holding back some , not anxious to ride right up until they made sure everything was keno . |
| 19 | For governments , large operators can offer reassurance that they will still be in business when today 's disposal facilities have been closed , to monitor them and ( if necessary ) pay to clean them up if they go wrong . |
| 20 | A car picks them up from wherever they 're staying and there 's usually a phone , so they can ring us up if they get stuck in traffic jams , or if there is a last-minute change of plan . |
| 21 | The small ones were allowed a mat or blanket on the floor where they curled up if they felt sleepy . |
| 22 | Ceramic cook tops can give the semblance of an almost unbroken work surface , and so do the new magnetic induction units that look like tiles , but do not heat up because they use magnetic energy to cook food by energising molecules both in the food and the pan . |
| 23 | They arched up because they resisted further movement . |
| 24 | It is as though the bream were connected to sticks with several people stood on the bottom pushing one fish up as they pull another one down . |
| 25 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 26 | He glanced up as they completed this transaction to find the attention of the nearest two tables , both exclusively male , fixed disbelievingly on them . |
| 27 | Weighing on a weekly basis reduces the likelihood that people will weigh themselves obsessionally every day and reassures the women with bulimia that weight does not necessarily go up when they eat three meals a day . |
| 28 | Apart from Louis , however , most Novices moved quietly up when they felt ready for it . |
| 29 | The whales were coated with oil , picked up when they entered Alaskan waters on their summer migration from Mexico and California , to feed in the rich northern waters . |
| 30 | They 'll lock me up when they find that poor girl . |