Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 2 | I thought that I would scratch out the pictures , but now that the woman has seen them they are not mine any more . |
| 3 | ‘ If anyone has seen her they should contact us immediately . ’ |
| 4 | And the Borough Council as agents for the County Council has done what they can to offset problems and the scope for further measures is limited . |
| 5 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 6 | erm , there 's on certain parts of ah what they put has shown they they 've understood what was in that part of the diary like in the exercises relating this morning to or to learning like with the Roman numerals and the other thing they shown that they understood what was in that context , but then on erm when you get later on it 's just er |
| 7 | But now the Home Office has told them they are living here illegally and will be deported — unless they can each come up with £150,000 to satisfy the business investment rules of the Immigration Act . |
| 8 | My aunt has told me they still admitted quite a number of patients in that condition in her day , but I thought things had changed . ’ |
| 9 | According to yesterday 's report , the man has decided to come forward because the gang has told him they are ending his regular cash payments , which he used to collect in London . |
| 10 | It exemplifies a group of people who have separate lives , ideas and attitudes , who are united because they 're in a common space and ( if the drama is working ) because they now share a common concern : something has happened which they have to deal with by working together . |
| 11 | It may well be that the Department has achieved what they set out to achieve . |
| 12 | Yeah I went and got it yesterday but they 'd had a break in and you should 've seen it they 'd smashed the front door , it were all smashed in . |
| 13 | ‘ When we 'd caught them they 'd both gone . |
| 14 | They 'd always be wanting nylons , he thought , he 'd seen what they 'd do for them during the war . |
| 15 | A whole day without the meanings and it was n't fair because she 'd done everything they 'd asked . |
| 16 | ‘ Why would they have killed the guard and the wife — if they 'd got what they wanted ? ’ |
| 17 | You 'd know anyway , if you 'd got what they think you 've got , whatever that is . |
| 18 | Well when they dug the garden , after they 'd dug it they always cromed it down with a crome before they planted anything . |
| 19 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 20 | Well we only had Epping hospital dear , that 's all we had , there was only Epping and er they were er you know done what they could very good and we had a dentist , oh dentist you had to go er , oh right to Old Harlow , up er |
| 21 | Sandy McGlashan had arrived late , his hair plastered down with sweat ; he was spluttering over the tale , to whoever would listen , of how he had ‘ come up flemyng and Menzies of Bolfracks , in the street at Aberfeldy , they had their heads together and were plotting something wicked , no doubt about it , if only he could have heard what they were saying ’ . |
| 22 | You should have heard what they were doing to him . |
| 23 | Otherwise we 'd have heard what they were saying . |
| 24 | Once , two fifth years , having heard what they were |
| 25 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 26 | In the opinion of many of the villagers , and naturally of all those who 'd had relatives massacred in the German reprisal , he should have done what they ordered . |
| 27 | I told the police at the time that he could not have done what they said he had . ’ |
| 28 | Having made what they hope will be their final change , David Egerton for Phil Davies at No. 8 , they had a light run-out at a ground next door to Parc des Princes last night and will have another this morning . |
| 29 | ‘ You should have seen what they took with them , ’ he laughed . |
| 30 | They say the villain , whoever he was , should have used what they call an inverted beehive plastic explosive attached to the underside of the tank by a magnetic damp , in which case more than ninety per cent of the explosive charge would have been directed upwards . |