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they

"They" is used to talk about two or more people, not you or the person you are speaking to. I love Josie and Reg. They are nice people. "They" is used to talk about two or more things. Can you get the books for me? Theyre over there. "They" is used to talk about one or more person when you don't know the sex or number. If a person is fast, they can get there early. "They" is used to talk about people in general. When are they going to finish that new building? They say you should drink eight glasses of water a day.

they

(the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants, or objects previously mentioned. [since the 1200s] (the third-person singular, sometimes, proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but not if previously named and identified as male or female. [since the 1300s] one, people, some people

they

(now, Southern England, _, dialect, or, nonstandard) The, those. [from 14th c.] (US, _, dialects, including, AAVE) Their. [from 19th c.]

they

(US, _, dialectal) There (especially as an expletive subject of be). [from 19th c.]

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Simple sentences

I hate those spiders. They're always there to freak me out when I'm cleaning.
Most people have great disinclinations to get out of bed early, even if they have to.
You must take things as they are.
They hate him because he gives them a mountain of homework.
They're already here.
One minute earlier, and they could have caught the bus.
They were very tired, hungry, and thirsty that night.
What language do they speak in Switzerland?
They kept him waiting outside for a long time.
Here they come.
They are always complaining.
They must have suspected me of stealing.
They are too busy fighting against each other to care for common ideals.
Every person who is alone is alone because they are afraid of others.
If you look at the lyrics, they don't really mean much.
If you look at the song's lyrics, they really don't mean much.
I wish I could care more about my grades but it seems that, at a certain point of my life, I decided they wouldn't be so important anymore.
Oh, my white pants! And they were new.
Are they all the same?
They were left speechless.
They say love is blind.
We don't see things as they are, but as we are.
Don't ask what they think. Ask what they do.
Mathematicians are poets, except that they have to prove what their fantasy creates.

Movie subtitles

Oh, they must be twins.
I don't have make up on, they won't recognize me.
They are hiding Inside the bastards.
They will come to us.
My name is Sonia Dupri.'m pregnant.they bit me, but I'm immune.
They are coming!
They're not supposed to be in Serbia!
They should have surrendered when they had the chance!
If you concentrate on Zero too much, they will pull the rug out from under you!
As I thought, they won't use the RG's against Elevens.
So they were already implemented.
More rats than expected are confused. aren't they?
Will the Japan they hand over have any value?
Aw. As I thought, they won't use the RG's against Elevens.
They'll mistake this for a farce planned by the Britannians!
They'll cut the broadcast soon.
Where did they belong to?
That they must be very far away.
One can ask whether they realised the size of such an undertaking.
They contain nothing more than columns of numbers, indicating the positions and brightness of all stars on the plates.
Most students did not want that either and they had to hide.
Kids can get pretty much anything they want in the yard, as long as they can afford it.
What do they open?
The screws search our lockers, they go through our backpacks.
The thing is, they can never stop the peanut butter trade.
They can't!
And they're willing to pay, so there's a tonne of money to be made smuggling PBJs into the yard.
I'm only giving the kids what they want.
It's a risky business, but they get paid a lot of money to take that risk. Keep moving, keep moving.
So they'd never see you.
No, no, they wouldn't see me at all.
They're contaminated!
They're tainted with feces!
The game, the life, it makes people do things that they wouldn't normally do.

News and current affairs

So, yes, there are solid fundamentals that arguably support today's higher gold price, although it is far more debatable whether and to what extent they will continue to support higher prices in the future.
But if real interest rates rise significantly, as well they might someday, gold prices could plummet.
They wanted better housing, education, and free health care for all.
Such restrictions on freedom did not meet with much public opposition when they were adopted.
They can destroy but not create.
Only when more parents, teachers, and community leaders behave likewise will recruitment of terrorists dry up and law-enforcement authorities receive full cooperation from the populations they police.
First, they could allow all countries to reap the benefits of a bilateral mutual-recognition deal by agreeing not to impose restrictive rules of origin.
Second, where they do consider harmonization, they could favor the less stringent of the original standards, unless there is credible evidence that it would not support the relevant regulatory objective.
The first flaw is that the spending reductions are badly timed: coming as they do when the US economy is weak, they risk triggering another recession.
Most economists failed to foresee the economic dynamics that actually led to the crisis, because they failed to pay enough attention to the rapid increase in US total debt.
Instead, they focused exclusively on US foreign debt, ignoring household debt (mortgage and consumer debt), public debt, business debt, and financial debt.
In particular, they should have paid greater attention to the sustainability of US mortgage and consumer debt.
Later, I went on a tour that they organized to watch the launch of Charles Simonyi, the fifth (and soon seventh) space tourist, from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
At the time (2008-2009), large international banks had to be rescued by their home countries' governments when they ran into trouble.
At the same time, emerging-market central banks need to accumulate gold reserves, which they still hold in far lower proportion than do rich-country central banks.

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