Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] and they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Audrey said : ‘ I talked to a lot of women jockeys to research my part and they told me men getting heavy with them is common in the racing world . ’ |
| 2 | They were really bad mistakes on my part and they cost us dear . |
| 3 | I went in and paid my money and they said to Ann |
| 4 | Now as I was picking the ivy for this , I 've got a cherry a standard cherry tree and the starlings get on my fence and they queue up to get on that cherry tree , you know you can hear them chattering away . |
| 5 | I pointed to my mouth and they understood I was hungry . ’ |
| 6 | I refused to go in my cell and they put us down the block . |
| 7 | ‘ The regiment saw an exhibition of my work and they commissioned it — which was very brave of them , in a way , as I 'd done very little before that . ’ |
| 8 | But one of the complaints that I was very bitter about was at that time I cycled to my work and they had paving stones in the bakery with the slits in them for to keep bikes . |
| 9 | Byron was my hero and they 've been slogging it out ever since . |
| 10 | I do n't remember her of course but I 've heard my father and them speaking about it . |
| 11 | I stamp my foot as I do n't want claw scrape-marks on my flesh and they convulse into defensive irate yodelling . |
| 12 | They are to do with my profession and they bother me increasingly . |
| 13 | That 's like some boys done in my school and they got caught and then they were n't allowed to go to the disco . |
| 14 | Eventually , I found a rope and threw it to my pal and they made it fast . |
| 15 | in Barbados and er some young chaps had saw me lying on the beach and er they stole my bag and they stuck a gun in my face and freeze lady , you do n't do any thing , you just let them take what they want and its a horrible feeling when your there , we were there for three weeks and it just totally spoiled the holiday but the ramifications of it do n't just stop once you got on the plane home , it was very frightening |
| 16 | They wanted my bag and they grabbed it , but then they started to beat me for no reason except sheer wickedness . |
| 17 | Pamella ! ’ and I 'm just freaking out and hanging on to Tim Taylor , trying to get to the plane , and I 'm wearing this scarf on my head to cover my face and they had pulled a straw — they said this ! — for who was going to tear the veil from my face and this fat guy got it and ripped it , pulled my hair , poked me in the eye — I was physically assaulted ! |
| 18 | We come along and they passed my load and they turned his load away . |
| 19 | I rather think that 's a , a repeat , I seem to re remember seeing it because er did n't a lot of them escape and they 've |
| 20 | But they do n't have a crystal ball , all they have is their judgement and they do what 's best in the circumstances . |
| 21 | He looked in her direction and they exchanged smiles and Ruth somehow felt that if Steve thought she was in trouble and needed bailing out he would come over immediately . |
| 22 | In our particular ministry in St Louis Missouri we are trying to use the vast technology that 's available to us in linking up with other organizations such as Catholic charities , Salvation Army and others , so that when persons are in need of help they can go to one organization and tell their story and they do n't have to keep going from place to place telling their story over and over and we 're beginning to look toward the use of computers and what they are capable of doing in order to help resources stretch . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've done great too , ’ she hugged her sister and they wheeled one another round on the garden path until the flowerbeds were in danger . |
| 24 | This brought Saints out of their shell and they forced a series of corners that a scrambling Celtic only just survived . |
| 25 | When I first came here with Mister Johnny — he was only a little lad then and I was n't much older — the Gotobeds still had their money and they kept house in style . |
| 26 | They want their money and they want them out of there . ’ |
| 27 | The unfortunate side of religion is when people become fanatical about their faith and they believe so strongly in something that they feel the need to prove it to others . |
| 28 | Moran gave them a pound , Rose took a red ten-shilling note from her handbag and they left in the same whirl as they had entered , dancing and singing all the way out to the lorry . |
| 29 | But the descriptions in the diary were there in the forefront of her mind and they stopped her . |
| 30 | Their resentment focused on the way industry seemed to be benefiting at their expense and they blamed the Finance Ministry 's favouritism towards industry for the plight — and the restiveness — of the peasantry . |