Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
| 2 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 3 | she said you let them treat you like that , |
| 4 | She made them feel they mattered more than anything else that was going on around . |
| 5 | We try to reduce the distance between ourselves and our boss by using first-person-plural pronouns , talking of what ‘ we ’ ( i.e. the boss and I ) will do in the future — ‘ We could always write to head office , and ask them to let us have more data . |
| 6 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 7 | It had identified itself as Churchill 's private secretary , Jock Colville , and said they realized he had some news to tell them . |
| 8 | they 've made it so as it , it do , you see I , I , I reckon you ought to open my let me make them in te in steel because er they made them like that so that when you pull them off or adjust them |
| 9 | They made us scrub all the way through pregnancy as well , right up to the end . |
| 10 | I says I want to learn sommat so I went to and I do n't know what it was , whether it was my attitude , but they , they asked me to do this and I was so good at it , so they started finding jobs for me and it was at and I was anxious for knowledge , and I tell you took anything on , which is important and the big firms did n't . |
| 11 | they asked him to remember all the things he could about the trip from earth . |
| 12 | In October he summoned to Amman the local notables favourable to his rule , where they asked him to put all Arab-occupied Palestine under his protection . |
| 13 | Hitherto , when they asked us to obey those laws , we have known that we could change them , but hereafter a combination of people with different languages , understandings and cultures can set , and are by combination setting , upon us standards , rules and laws which may be suitable for Greece , central or northern Europe , France or Spain but which are not right for us . |
| 14 | The smell of the fungus attracts flies and when they land they collect some of the jelly on their legs , which they then carry away , so spreading the fungus . |
| 15 | T frankly , yes it did , but I mean you were reading it pretty well correctly the way they read I mean most of us read things I know I do myself , one reads things quicker than perhaps some would if we were reading them on a radio or something . |
| 16 | I mean if they insist they want all that I mean I 'll if they insist they want the interest as well then I 'm in er a bit of a spot |
| 17 | speaking on my own for my own personal point of view erm if they if they insist they want this full amount |
| 18 | ‘ When they swarm they destroy all in their way . |
| 19 | I do n't think they make they make those any more , nobody seemed to have one yesterday |
| 20 | Say you 're eight stone they make you put that waistcoat on , it 's nine stone . |
| 21 | As they grow they moult several times . |
| 22 | ‘ Tell 'em it 'll cost an extra 50 grand if they want me to take all my clothes off and get in bed with Lucifer ’ |
| 23 | They want him to detonate such a great burst of passion that all those millions of waverers upon whom so much depends will rush to support him . |
| 24 | And it 's just like , and they want you to make some comment on what you 've worked out , which is no problem really , is it ? |
| 25 | Why does n't this place provide models if they want us to get these things right ? ’ |
| 26 | they expect me to pay another three hundred pounds a month out of seven hundred and twenty pounds net income , leaving me with twenty pounds a month to live on . |
| 27 | and they 've stopped this on you and they expect you to pay all this amount of money I do n't know |
| 28 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 29 | They say it shows little respect for the environment and have managed to pursuade council officials to consider putting preservation orders on the remaining trees . |
| 30 | It becomes stale , they say I like this it was good ! |