Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discussions at the end of each lecture were animated and sometimes a little heated , for Hindu students , Muslims and Buddhists were a little critical at having to attend any Christian lecture and were very emphatic that they much preferred their own religion to that of Christianity . |
| 2 | ‘ They obviously have their own marketing strategy and who can argue against that . |
| 3 | I only had about two inches of rectum left , and they said cancer was a possibility , so they just took it all out . |
| 4 | It 's typical , they just accepted it all , so it did n't really achieve a great deal , but Mike told me quite a lot of things that I do n't really have any idea , or I did n't know about , |
| 5 | Oh yeah , lots of stuff made for the Army and and and they did n't know , I mean the manufacturers s sent the work to the hosiery dye- yards they they did n't know what they were sending or what they got , they just churned it all out and and that was it you know it were I could a lot of things about that . |
| 6 | No they just had their own way of life and you would n't change it and they had stories to my father . |
| 7 | Oh yeah , they just condensed it all down you see technology erm battery power then erm |
| 8 | It 's a waste of time cos they just splatter it all back up again ! |
| 9 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 10 | And what happened at the changeover , did they just fire you all and then reinstate you ? |
| 11 | Did they not tell you that ? |
| 12 | No-one seems to progress very far from the point at which they started , and if they try , they generally get it all wrong . |
| 13 | They fucking give it all the verbal and |
| 14 | I have excluded from my list politicians as such — hence the absence of Napoleon — but have allowed in Lenin and Hitler because they largely invented their own ideologies . |
| 15 | In contrast , the effect of dealing with domestic disputes can be traumatic on some policemen as they momentarily place their own children and family in the situation of emotional horror they encounter . |
| 16 | They soon form their own production company while Chaplin mixes with Tinseltown 's glitterati , including Kevin Kline as a suitably swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks . |
| 17 | That is what annoys about it or fair enough if they have n't got any money they get these handouts but when they 're working and they still get them that 's when I think it 's wrong ! |
| 18 | The reason for thinking that chloroplasts have this origin is that they still retain their own DNA and their own protein-synthesizing machinery . |
| 19 | They still do their own winding but they d they do n't do their own dyeing |
| 20 | No matter how little else they tell you about TV movies they always tell you this . |
| 21 | They always had their own plans . |
| 22 | ‘ Anyone can say they have no quarrel with people so long as they always get their own way . ’ |
| 23 | They were great friends — there were three of them : Uncle , Gifford Tate , and Papa Burger-I do n't know why ‘ papa ’ but they always called him that . |
| 24 | During this process younger children learn that if they cry loud enough to get the parent involved they usually get their own way . |
| 25 | School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents , but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports . |
| 26 | They usually have their own personal computers , they need to subscribe to technical journals and pay for ( relatively expensive ) training and familiarisation courses in order to update their skills , their work tends to be spread over a wider geographical area and the need for a car is greater . |
| 27 | They also told us that next time they would hold people in custody until the next court sitting . ’ |
| 28 | The Quakers , for example , dispensed with a professional ministry altogether and held completely unstructured meetings , at which both male and female members of the congregation could testify as and when the spirit moved them ; they also developed their own simple marriage and burial services . |
| 29 | But Stainforth understands mountains as well , and while they also have their own structure , they are changelings which we can not take for granted . |
| 30 | They also have their own folk music . |