Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Do n't let them give you that line . |
2 | The only positive freedom is the freedom to use our creativity — and when machines are used as a substitute for labour rather than as an extension of our abilities , they deny us that freedom . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | To do with her whatever nerves they cause them that cause itching . |
5 | That is probably when they give him that name — the Ángel of Death . ’ |
6 | They tend to say , oh well , he 's black so it 's to be expected , they 're bound to do that , so when they give you that kind of attitude , you think oh well , blow them , if that 's what they think , why not act like that . |
7 | They tell me that Tamsin is out on a boat at an all-night party with two or three hundred other people and a stack of booze . |
8 | we 're still involved , and they tell me that life on a fire station is still very pleasant so I 'm sure it must be . |
9 | Today , many of it 's current students made it clear they like it that way . |
10 | What do they call it that hall ? |
11 | I do n't know why they decided it that way . |
12 | yeah , but some of the letters have come , in fact they sent me that catalogue you know |
13 | they do it that way . |
14 | Whenever the corps de ballet came on stage , they reminded us that tradition and dance accomplishment are very much alive and well in St Petersburg . |
15 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
16 | so I says it 's going , now as far as the , er , what they call it that fella that come to did that job |
17 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
18 | it 's , it 's , it 's ridiculous I just think it 's very unfair that they regard you that way . |
19 | " I do n't care chat becomes of me , So long as they sing me that sheet melody , Yip-I-Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay , Yip-I Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay . " |
20 | I tell you as I walked past there on Friday , she said yeah she said we were still open then , they closed it that night , ridiculous |
21 | I think that 's why so many people from our school went into scientific things — they pushed you that way , but I know from my friends that the secondary school where a lot of my friends went to , the girls were encouraged to do typing , hairdressing , home-economics , all the rest of it . |
22 | They wanted it that way in order to save making and breaking camp . |
23 | And that gave me a terrible feeling , I just did n't know what to , whether to you know , you was sad and yet you felt wild at them putting it that way . |