Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] they " in BNC.

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1 And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs .
2 And he he used to cook them and do you know we we used to pluck them and we used to roast them by the fire in a
3 And I said well if they fit him I 'll have them .
4 Marie yelled after me to wait but I did n't want to talk to her about it so I chucked my sandwich-box over to her and told her she could eat them for me .
5 The landlady told her he would drive them all round the twist , he was born to chase a bob without success , and he left queer books lying around .
6 They told us they would kill them if we did n't follow orders . ’
7 ‘ My parents ’ number is on the pad , so if you do n't believe me you can ring them . ’
8 You need send nothing with the child Ellen as he will need quite different clothes here and when I have seen and measured him I will make them myself .
9 She used , used jump it we could put them on her cupboards , you know , make her something a bit bigger , they 're gon na get that off there .
10 When my friends come into Gatwick , I tell them I 'll meet them at Victoria station .
11 In fact I 'll give my neighbours who live opposite , I do n't see a lot of them but they they are my opposite neighbours and of course the 's really I 'm on good terms with I ought to give them I 'll get them a tin of biscuits as well .
12 Now how they 're gon na send them I do n't know , but I can assure you they will send them in a hurry .
13 So it were no good fighting against them I mean they I used to let them please theirself you know , and er just because they were quite happy to go along that way .
14 There are 600-plus muscles in our body and whether they 're smile muscles or frown muscles , if you use them you 'll keep them .
15 To hear him tell it you 'd think they 'd had a date and she 'd turned up late !
16 leave them I shall sort them out in a moment
17 If they get any more than thirteen customers which is highly unlikely unless there 's a sale on then we 'll get them we 'll give them twenty five pence per customer on top .
18 No but you can get them you can get them for less than that .
19 Mind you I should think they 've got holes absolutely everywhere are n't there .
20 But mind you I used to give them six , whatever they wanted you know .
21 I think I 'd better take these books back down again I think , oh mind you I can put them up here perhaps .
22 There have been a few comments passed about the way you 're behaving , but do n't worry , next time I hear anyone discussing it I 'll set them straight . ’
23 Yeah you know what I 've done , it 's that er thing there well before I had it I used to put them on floor at side of ashtray , and now I leave it on settee and you know when I put me legs up , you know when you move over and watching telly ?
24 The administrator looking into the affairs of the Apex Trust will come forward with proposals , and when we see them we shall consider them .
25 Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that .
26 They thought she might be having a baby , and if she really wanted to hurt them she could tell them she might be .
27 I just , I will just , if they will push me I will push 'em back
28 His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets .
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