Example sentences of "[vb pp] they [adv prt] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 2 | No it 's er it came today and it had its balance on its ticket and I 've rung them up and er |
| 3 | The buil the I 've rung them up and they said they 'd do it . |
| 4 | And then one pair were , did n't fit right when she got them home , so , I 've took them back and , got another pair . |
| 5 | I done them and then I 've took them down and I 've gone back . |
| 6 | She realized she had missed an opportunity to needle Brian and went on , ‘ Tim says drop-outs are the fault of a cynical and uncompassionate administration who 're buggered if they 're going to waste good money on a load of lunatics , so they 've slung them out and turned the asylums into conference centres for advertising agencies . ’ |
| 7 | I had let them down and was no longer worthy of their friendship . |
| 8 | Until ten years or so ago a bundle of similar envelopes had lain in a drawer of her desk ; one day in a fit of vigour she had torn them up and thrown them away . |
| 9 | Back home , after Alexander had dropped them off and Emily was tucked up fast asleep in bed , Lisa even forced a smile of admiration at his duplicity . |
| 10 | Bill had dropped them off and was lurking outside . |
| 11 | I would of chucked them out and Mrs |
| 12 | I forgot I 'd got them on and I slipped on the bottom stairs . |
| 13 | He 'd had them on and off for the past couple of weeks . |
| 14 | some of the girls they 's kicked them out and . |
| 15 | Dorcas called them over and pointed to the tank above them . |
| 16 | He 'd tried several , imitating his Mum 's signature but he 'd scrumpled them up and put them in the waste paper basket . |
| 17 | Erm and she 's had seven youngsters and she 's brought them up and she a , on her own she 's had to bring them up cos he left her for another , another woman and erm she had the seven and she 's worked and fought hard cos she would n't ask for a darn thing and er they 're , they 're great those kids , they are , they 're a credit to her , you know , but it 's taken it out of her , she 's |
| 18 | Their mothers had brought them in and then got the hell out soon after we started work , staying only to witness the methodical unravelling of the soaked bandages . |
| 19 | Last I saw , a couple of hand-in-hand schoolkids had fished them out and were avidly reading the instruction leaflet . |
| 20 | And he was going again , but when he wanted his clothes to go my mother had cut them up and burnt them ! |
| 21 | move the cabinets and if they 're no good just cut them up and throw them away |
| 22 | ‘ If you 're looking for your undies , I 've folded them up and put them on top of the TV for you . |
| 23 | Mary had come down , made mugs of coffee , had taken them up and they lay , no doubt , side by side , in that amazing double bed , which had a proper headboard , and little built-in side tables . |
| 24 | The other group of people who you might have thought , ought to have taken them up and been interested in them , was the wider field of social science , er , writers after all , social scientists , ought to be interested in these , in these books because they 're about social science . |
| 25 | She had taken them off and Spike had squeezed the water from them . |
| 26 | Cos our cleaners wo n't clean if it 's erm occupied or not everything is cleaned from the floor they wo n't change the bed sheets unless you 've actually taken them off and |
| 27 | back and they were disgusted so they 've taken them down and gon na make me a complete new set . |
| 28 | The woman thinks we were buying them , but she 's taken them back and it 's all sorted out . ’ |
| 29 | When the cloud lifted , he had taken them out and read them . |
| 30 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |