Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | want them to send me a cover note |
| 2 | Have they given you a tenor clef ? |
| 3 | They made her a slave labourer . |
| 4 | Well they sold me an air rifle on my own . |
| 5 | Would they lend you a dressing gown ? |
| 6 | ‘ Do they know what the murder weapon was ? ’ |
| 7 | But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short . |
| 8 | They send them a post card through and I thought it was about February , but Win reckons it 's the end of March their booster time . |
| 9 | When I came out , they told me the court dates of when he was going to be adopted . |
| 10 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 11 | ‘ And did they show you the animal cemetery when you were a child ? ’ |
| 12 | There was only one good bit in the film — when they showed you the lit–de bastard pissing up a wall . |
| 13 | She had to ring , Yorkshire , they give her the phone number to . |
| 14 | And you sing chorus so you know they give you a song sheet and you sing then . |
| 15 | Of test questions Er yeah , these are these are tricky , where they give you something like They give you a melting point and a boiling point whether it conducts electricity and a gas is given off which turns limewater milky . |
| 16 | They give you a leather waistcoat to put on . |
| 17 | They give us a head start on the competition when it comes to building quality projects like this one . ’ |
| 18 | culture , they know what an agent looks like and they know what a tour operator looks like and they know and they know one or two other people around and so on and so forth |
| 19 | That was the reason they named it the Deathbed Room . |
| 20 | They called them a sheath sheath . |
| 21 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 22 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 23 | They called him the bamboo man when they finally dared to discuss it . |
| 24 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 25 | They called it the drill hall then it 's now the community centre but it 's the drill hall . |
| 26 | They sent her a demo tape and a lengthy letter . |
| 27 | They gave him a standing ovation . ’ |
| 28 | The Party loved it , they gave him a standing ovation and Mr Kinnock went back for an encore to tell them to save their strength for the election . |
| 29 | ‘ I heard they gave him a blood transfusion up the hospital , ’ said Billy . |
| 30 | The airport hotel was an expensive way to live , but they gave him a trade reduction , which seemed the logically absurd extension of a farcical situation . |