Example sentences of "what they [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what they sell you see . |
| 2 | Erm it 's been shown that men seem to er connect the word mm with I agree , that 's what they use it to mean whereas the women tend to use mm as I understand . |
| 3 | AND WHAT THEY WISHED THEY 'D NEVER BOUGHT |
| 4 | A look at Words and Sounds ; how they 're put together and what they make us do . |
| 5 | The foregoing examples are taken from documents written by uneducated men who committed to paper , as best they could , what they thought they had heard , or spellings they believed appropriate . |
| 6 | The workers for whom employers competed were not merely the ones with the bargaining strength to make unions practicable , but also those most aware that ‘ the market ’ alone guaranteed them neither security nor what they thought they had a right to . |
| 7 | Catching up with what they thought they 'd lost . ’ |
| 8 | So that was what they thought she had . |
| 9 | In giving to their children what they felt they needed and did not have themselves , they obtain gratification and solace . |
| 10 | That 's what they led us to believe anyway , even if they were the ones who had most of the food and clothes . |
| 11 | The ones we stayed in were appalling … not at all what they led us to believe . |
| 12 | I contacted schools , newspapers and magazines for young women willing to fill in a questionnaire or be interviewed about self-image , and what they told me forms the main part of this book . |
| 13 | I had to do what they told me to do . |
| 14 | No , I think that 's what they told you to take Oh , how often you expect me to write to you . |
| 15 | That 's what they told us to do at school — ask a policeman if we 're lost . |
| 16 | So he say they 'll give it to you back so that 's what they done they give me me money back , cos they 'd already give him back his , you see . |
| 17 | Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron . |
| 18 | She , skilled in the ways of therapy , had after the first few sessions begun dissecting his own motives for him and Kevin , like an obedient dog , ended up nodding slowly as she told him clearly , fully , frankly what he meant when he said what he thought about what she or Henry felt , and how what he thought he thought about what they felt , or said they felt , probably was n't what he really felt any more than what they said they felt was really deep down what they really felt . |
| 19 | I told the police at the time that he could not have done what they said he had . ’ |
| 20 | Levitt concludes that the Italian 's success demonstrates his belief that you should not provide consumers with what they say they want , because their behaviour demonstrates that they will take other features if the product is priced and promoted correctly . |
| 21 | It 's always difficult to balance what you feel is best for a client with what they say they want . |
| 22 | He 's sold that big and he 's got this now , a Cavalier , what they say they want to do |
| 23 | When it is fortified by ‘ in-depth ’ interviews , and addressed to the intensive observation of what people actually do as well as what they say they do , sociological research merges indistinguishably with the work of social anthropologists . |
| 24 | Although people do not always do what they say they do , where there is a mismatch between what they do and say , we can assume that there is some reason for this . |
| 25 | I 'm talking about opposite what they call you know . |
| 26 | People did n't have much to give but what they gave they gave with a good heart you know . |
| 27 | The map that 's in the back of what they gave us looks as though it might blown up . |
| 28 | When they all had what they needed she turned her attention to Annie . |
| 29 | The only evidence from that dream is the feeling of childhood — all childhoods , probably : the puzzlement of the child watching from the pavement , wondering what 's going on , what they , the adults are up to , what they want from you , and what they expect you to do . |
| 30 | As the Sundance Kid said to Butch Cassidy , as they were being hotly pursued by a posse of Pinkerton detectives ‘ If they paid me to stop raiding banks , what they paid them to stop me robbing banks , I 'd stop robbing banks . ’ |