Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these men could do much more to help , not only their partners , but themselves , if only they understood what the menopause is and what can be done to alleviate the problems . |
| 2 | We could really make this place swing if only they gave us the data to work on , could n't we ? ’ |
| 3 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 4 | So they gave him a job . |
| 5 | So they gave him a special job . ’ |
| 6 | At ten o'clock they gave us a handsome club sweater , which was so generous we decided to let someone else win the domino handicap . |
| 7 | Normally they paid him no attention between performances . |
| 8 | Thus they considered it an affront to a man 's dignity — but not to a woman 's — to earn a wage only on a par with social security benefits . |
| 9 | The more they reflected upon this the more they realised what a massive amount of fixed capital is necessary to eliminate human intelligence and how incredibly intelligent human beings really are . |
| 10 | ‘ Seven years later they gave him a parish of his own . |
| 11 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 12 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |
| 13 | He immediately queried the instructions and eventually they gave him a new course to steer . |
| 14 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 15 | Well they sold me an air rifle on my own . |
| 16 | And then they sent me a questionnaire saying they understood that he 'd he 'd given my address , and was he res , was he still resident ? |
| 17 | then they taught me the copper |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | thought he 'd cut and things like this and then they showed you the chap the next day and he was completely different ! |
| 20 | Then they gave her a battery of psych-tests that plugged straight into her nervous system ; though she fought against it , they strapped her down and there was nothing she could hide , no way to stop the relentless tide of data and attitudes they programmed into her , or the probing of her mental set . |
| 21 | ‘ Then they gave me a lumbar puncture and discovered the problem . |
| 22 | So and then they gave me an injection in the back . |
| 23 | Then they gave us a charge sheet — it was huge , something like 23 particulars , some of which I did n't even recognise . ’ |
| 24 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 25 | When I came round they gave me a large tot of whisky , another injection of morphia and sent me off to Imtarfa , as drunk as a lord . |
| 26 | We asked the Home Office to appear in this program , but they refused , instead they sent us a letter full of encouraging noises about how seriously they took the question of data protection . |
| 27 | Instead they gave her a letter saying that the baby was in perfect health . |
| 28 | But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short . |
| 29 | However they viewed her the girls knew that her love was genuine , and the discipline was a necessary part of the love . |
| 30 | to me that 's where they took her the first time , they did n't take her right on the the roads , you know , the first time she 'd |