Example sentences of "[verb] and [pron] [vb mod] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | We we used to have lots , they used to go my father used to put er a a bird a bird trap er bird second time to catch and we used to pluck them and and them and roast by the fire you know . |
| 2 | exactly what I 's expect and you may find they actually sort of are on a down-slope still . |
| 3 | It is these conclusions and that reasoning which Mr. McGregor has attacked and I must reconsider them . |
| 4 | I remember once we were going to have a lot more crocuses on the way up the drive , and he said , ‘ Look , you decide what you want and I 'll order them , ’ so I decided what I thought would be good , because I knew I had to put them in . |
| 5 | Leave it , I see if I can get a sheet done and we 'll get them photocopied . |
| 6 | They used to er se , we could n't carry the empty ga , you can imagine that 's not express parcel stuff , but the valves er , would sometimes need er replacing and we would send them a valve and , and while , instead of having any down time , we would give them you know deliver the spare , have the spare come back for repair . |
| 7 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 8 | Moreover , they have been trained to serve and you will find them most helpful . |
| 9 | Decide : how the story will be read and who will read it what sound effects you need how they will be made and who will make them . |
| 10 | Little tiny ones we 'd stay and we 'd replace them . |
| 11 | They can help a crew lose and they can help them go at their best . |
| 12 | ‘ We ca n't accept those ideas , but there are other ideas to discuss and we will put them forward , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The relics were discovered in a lead box in the ruins of the abbey on land owned by two brothers , who had conflicting views on where the relics should be housed and who should own them . |
| 14 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 15 | Yes well you can tell me what they 're getting and I 'll take them down . |
| 16 | Let's hope someone calls and we 'll put 'em in touch with you Norman . |
| 17 | some notes , and you 'd sim they 'd be numbered and you 'd lift them out and you put them in the carousel |
| 18 | So I can just because they have been found and I shall use them you shut up , or should I shut up . |
| 19 | Their bodies were contorted and you could see they had been trying to protect their faces with their hands . ’ |
| 20 | The issues in this famous case are extremely involved and we shall consider them further in Chapter III . |
| 21 | It is partly because they are desperate to divert attention from the recession — which they created , from which they can not escape and which will lose them the election — and partly because they are desperate to conceal the enormity of what they have done in wilfully impoverishing the poorer half of the nation . |
| 22 | oh lovely , I go er a big box of chocolates , I think and I 'll stuff them , like Rolo , no , I do n't want any thing , oh I like those heart socks |
| 23 | Similarly , science may describe what electricity , gravity or radiation do and we can use them reliably in practical applications , but we still may not be able to describe precisely what they are . |
| 24 | They fit tightly most of the time because of the damp , but when we have a hot dry summer they shrink and you can lift them up easily . |