Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If climbers hugged themselves in delight in the knowledge that they had the monopoly on daft , death-defying behaviour , their hearts must have sunk to see people above them launch themselves off cliffs , strapped to a parachute . |
| 2 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 3 | You buy cigarettes with that — they sell anything in ones . |
| 4 | No they do n't , they eat lots of mushrooms . |
| 5 | But when the Central Policy Review Staff ( the ‘ Think Tank ’ ) had suggested in the early eighties that they mount a full-scale investigation into the practices and abuses of the professions , they discovered that the influence of the lawyers upon Number 10 was so strong that the proposal was sat upon and then returned , with a suggestion they confine themselves to teachers and social workers . |
| 6 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
| 7 | They trust me with bunches of keys and let me phone my sister . |
| 8 | ‘ Though they make it in bags here , elephant tea they call it , is n't that funny ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ They make anything from tee-shirts to toilet roll holders , ’ said Peter , who believes the exercise is valuable not only in terms of production but in the finer points of accountancy and business . |
| 10 | The point about studies on non-human animals is not that they replace studies on humans but that they provide us with pointers to what we should study in people and how we should study it . |
| 11 | I said like they say it in films . |
| 12 | They cover everything from rats running about the roof to astronomic insurance charges ; from a gale removing the whole roof to the discovery that there is a two-year waiting list for repairs . |
| 13 | Hundreds of children are taken to hospital after swallowing vitamin pills , often because they mistake them for sweets . |
| 14 | As it turned out , I was a dreadful croupier and after a few weeks they put me on coats and hats . |
| 15 | They put them on pedal-cycles . |
| 16 | I need a visa and have failed to obtain one , Rosita likewise , and so they put us behind bars like prisoners . |
| 17 | And when it 's pressed out of the grapes , the juice comes out , they allow it to stand for five days and then they put it into bottles . |
| 18 | But if he looks as though he may pounce on them , they shoot at him , and if they kill him , they cut him in pieces and roast him and regale themselves , repeating all the while , ‘ It is the Russians who are eating you , not us . ’ |
| 19 | And when they cut it with scythes , did they gather it ? |
| 20 | Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children . |
| 21 | I look at how physics is constructed by staff and students ; whether they view these disciplines in terms of the old paradigm of science as certain , objective and value-free , or whether they view them in terms of the new paradigm of uncertainty , breadth and interconnectedness . |
| 22 | Having collected data they structure it into concepts to give it meaning for others . |
| 23 | They attack it with wedges and iron hammers ; and it is thought to be the hardest thing that exists , except the greed of gold which is the most stubborn of all things . ’ |
| 24 | Used as an integral part of teaching they lend themselves to workshops and multi-media situations . |
| 25 | No I do n't , no that was just a nickname they give him for years ago , matter of fact I the other day , I was walking up and he called me , so I took me father 's name you see , nickname , that was . |
| 26 | We tend to assess people through what they say and the way they say it , to come to conclusions about whether we will like someone from the way they present themselves in words . |
| 27 | These people crawled into my head last night and now they control me like ghosts . |
| 28 | But until lately very few people had managed to make themselves heard when they pointed out the dramatic effect of all previous philosophers having seen it as that of a man — that is , of course , not an exact reflection of what men are like , but an image of how they tend to see themselves when they contrast themselves with women . |
| 29 | Peck adds that ‘ Some times they prod him with Needles , sometimes they pepper him , sometimes they Shoot at him . ’ |
| 30 | How are you going to find the right frequency before they blow us to pieces ? ’ |