Example 12-87

They used to play the truant and - now they grow up and become good boys - work in hotels, yeah.
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they
3pl.sbj
grow
grow[pfv]
up
up
and
and
become
become[pfv]
good
adj
boys
boy.pl
[...]
[...]
[They used to play the truant, and then] they grew up and became good boys [and now] [work in hotels, yeah].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews