Example sentences of "and they [vb past] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have something like 40 players and they are very competitive and very strong and they caused us a lot of problems . |
| 2 | and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday |
| 3 | So we asked council if they could get us a place and they offered us a flat at first over the other side , I do n't know what walk it was on , and they says , You can stay there until we get an house for you . |
| 4 | ‘ He was an expert on Russian affairs — as much of an expert as MPs get to be on anything — and they made him a junior minister to add credibility to their soft-line policy . |
| 5 | My second Oscar was entirely due to Morecambe and Wise and they sent me a telegram to prove it : ‘ Stick with us and we 'll get you a third ’ , I think it was . |
| 6 | and they sent me a box back . |
| 7 | MANCHESTER UNITED and Leeds were first and second on this day last year — and they kept it a two-horse race to the end in the old First Division . |
| 8 | After I graduated from high school in 1984 I shaved my head and kept my hair short and they labelled me a skinhead . |
| 9 | They dressed and lit him against his character — softening where they ought to have emphasised the toughness — and they gave him a part with no verbal bite and no guts but even so it was not a bad first break for the boy from the snooker halls of Port Talbot . |
| 10 | ‘ Did she come through here ? ’ he demanded of the astonished-looking Chinese family at one of the restaurant 's six plain tables , and they gave him a look of complete incomprehension . |
| 11 | They could have told you what they meant by them and they gave them a currency in terms of their own conduct . |
| 12 | a sociality room whatever , whatever they call it and er , and they gave them a good do really |
| 13 | But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury . |
| 14 | So I got the tyre off , and I got the spare on , and put the nuts on , and at the end of it , I gave a bow , and they gave me a round of applause . |
| 15 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 16 | and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday |
| 17 | and I visited their friends and went to their church with them and they gave me a wonderful time , did everything for me |
| 18 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 19 | place on Sunday and they gave me a meal . |
| 20 | They enabled the sisters to honour their own privacy needs and they gave us a clear sense of personal identity . |
| 21 | ‘ Finally , we went to the office and they gave us a cheque , which bounced . ’ |
| 22 | And they gave us a sheet . |