Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] they [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos I took them off to peel some potatoes |
| 2 | ‘ I sent them in to retrieve Christine LaFayette , the female offspring of the woman who now … manages … your Earth . |
| 3 | They had come much further into the forest than they intended , much further indeed than those who ordered them in had intended . |
| 4 | The policeman and passer-by who pulled them out say anyone else would have done the same . |
| 5 | She saw them about to protest . |
| 6 | ( And those who saw them off have left the platform ) |
| 7 | If she strapped them down to make herself look boyish they just stuck out a foot farther down , and ached . |
| 8 | With undisguised relish a leading liberal historian embellishes the account left by one populist of what the peasants did with the revolutionary pamphlets distributed : ‘ They tore them up to roll cigarettes — paper was so scarce , they explained ’ — and one may assume they used them for less delicate purposes as well . ’ |
| 9 | the festivals car park , you know the whole thing and I mean then he kicked them off did n't he , so they moved up to Cross Street so in a way it 's their own fault , they could of let them stay there , I mean every body wants to be settled somewhere like |
| 10 | He left them around to prove to himself that he really did n't smoke . |