Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got rid of them all cos they 're all taking them home . |
| 2 | Oh it would n't have cost nothing , it would cost me something if I got caught in them days bloody ration . |
| 3 | Er I seriously wish I 'd said to them you know , I 'm , I 'm phoning it a fortnight in advance because I want to stick to the arrangements . |
| 4 | The grooms on the train were all younger , thinner and from what I 'd seen of them in their uniform T-shirts less positive . |
| 5 | well they were always against me , well Bill was during the war , what I 'd done to them , finished all the decorating , put shelves up , go on the slate to put his aerial up , he would n't go up , I had to climb out my bedroom window onto the gutter and its a wonder I did n't kill myself then , put his aerial up and |
| 6 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 7 | I 'd lived with them for a while . |
| 8 | I 'd written to them , and I feel they may have got the letter in time . ’ |
| 9 | I decided to do half a dozen a day until I 'd got through them . |
| 10 | jostling for bits of bread I 'd left for them . |
| 11 | One from Christmas which included the regiment panto ( I 'd forgotten about them ) and Gatehouse . |
| 12 | I 'd forgotten about them . |
| 13 | I wheeled left towards them and called ‘ Tiger ’ on the R/T to take the outside man on their port flank while I took the leader . |
| 14 | On the Waterfront and Rebel without a Cause had appeared in 1954 and 1955 , starring Marlon Brando and James Dean respectively , and I had fallen for them both . |
| 15 | Well , you know , I think it was a kind of sports bag or something and I thought oh I 'll go along with that and the other , I mean I had heard of them before and I made a few enquiries and they said , you know , you you were quite quality company so I thought |
| 16 | I knew the Mozarteum Orchestra because I had played with them as a pianist , and I was well known in Salzburg , so we had no difficulty in selling tickets . |
| 17 | That they have cost me no more than my time makes such decisions much easier than if I had paid for them in gold . |
| 18 | ‘ I had listened to them spellbound , just as I once , as a small girl , hid behind my father 's sofa and heard Samuel Coleridge recite his Ancient Mariner 's Rime . |
| 19 | This was the first news I had had of them since they had left Maymyo a fortnight earlier . |
| 20 | She has n't , she got rid of them all . |
| 21 | She read with avidity the endlessly cosy adventures of wealthy children on farms and in smugglers ' caves and country houses , but she found built into them a warning against too much belief . |
| 22 | ‘ We did n't know they 'd run away before you 'd finished with them , ’ one of the soldiers was grumbling sullenly . |
| 23 | The actress had been venomous when she 'd chanced upon them in the corridor , but she 'd displayed the spitefulness of a disappointed woman , not a wronged one . |
| 24 | When she finally came downstairs it was to find Carole insisting that , since this was their last night in the Hamptons before returning to the apartment in New York , she 'd arranged for them to have a romantic candle-lit dinner in their cottage . |
| 25 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 26 | When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all . |
| 27 | She felt infantilised by them , but also felt bitterly that they were not fair , and she was bored and frightened at the thought of remaining bored all her life . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've coloured hair lots of times , ’ Mandy muttered , not removing her eyes from the binoculars she had screwed into them . |
| 29 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
| 30 | And equally instinctively , she had turned with them , leaving the road and taking a cart track along the upper side of the field . |