Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they only give you free parts under warranty if it 's serviced with a ? |
| 2 | You 've only got to go up here , they only charge you ten pence for a sheet , get a great big , actually I could type . |
| 3 | They only give you one year labour . |
| 4 | Now , when one of us is describing a restaurant , there is intensive cross-questioning about the quality of the puddings and petits fours , and commiseration if they do not sound up to scratch : ‘ Do you mean they only gave you one chocolate truffle each ! ’ |
| 5 | I — ' She turned to Ben now , saying , ‘ I do n't know why I was afraid , they just made me afraid . |
| 6 | I only had about two inches of rectum left , and they said cancer was a possibility , so they just took it all out . |
| 7 | 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 , |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They just make me nervous . |
| 10 | Oh yeah , they just condensed it all down you see technology erm battery power then erm |
| 11 | It 's a waste of time cos they just splatter it all back up again ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And what happened at the changeover , did they just fire you all and then reinstate you ? |
| 14 | On the submarine they give us film badges to wear , but when they turn black they just give you new badges . |
| 15 | Perhaps they just find it comforting to think that this one earthly life is not the beginning and end of it all . |
| 16 | Did they not tell you that ? |
| 17 | No-one seems to progress very far from the point at which they started , and if they try , they generally get it all wrong . |
| 18 | Er say , I mean they normally give me three pounds do n't they ? |
| 19 | They fucking give it all the verbal and |
| 20 | So I go oh yeah I mean they fucking mark it urgent , any person mark it urgent , say urgent right ? |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | I trust this answered your queries on the increase in the annual subscription and your members ' satisfaction , that they still consider it good value for money . |
| 23 | And 77 per cent admitted they still find it hard to talk openly about sex . |
| 24 | Equally , the converse is true , and even where headteachers and officers have received considerable training in management skills , they still find it difficult to organise schools effectively . |
| 25 | ( There are signs that they are beginning to view it as legitimate , in theory , in their dealings with Christian lowlanders , although they still find it difficult to apply in practice . ) |
| 26 | You therefore need to press both management and your own representatives ( whether a trade union , staff committee or works council ) to make sure that they promptly give you adequate information about the progress of discussion . |
| 27 | No matter how little else they tell you about TV movies they always tell you this . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Erm I do n't know erm how it is like , as I say because I , I 've been left now ten years eleven , eleven in May er so erm I , I really , I do n't know what , how things are with the er with the employees really you know , but erm I used to enjoys my meetings once a month erm and I think everybody seemed fair , we got and of course , according to the Co- magazine that we have , that Focus , they always send me one of those still and er I mean , you 've got er , we used to have a good football team and I think they 've still got a sports team have n't they ? |
| 30 | They always found it natural in government . |