Example sentences of "and they [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During an opera we had a lighting change and they misinformed me about the weights . |
| 2 | Some female handed them a hypo-bulb and they sprayed it into Jezrael 's face , and there was a physical paralysis leadening her without physical pain . |
| 3 | Based on their extensive studies on behalf of the National Association of Social Workers into differential use of social welfare personnel , Barker and Briggs ( 1968 ) developed a fairly sophisticated conception of how the social service team would work , and they offered it as an alternative to previously specified models of staff differentiation and utilization . |
| 4 | Thom picked up two oranges from the gutter but someone saw him and they took him to Derby Street police station and he got the sack from the police . |
| 5 | He asked to see the horse and they took him to the stable . |
| 6 | A paramedic crew from Mersey Regional Ambulance was waiting on the beach for Mr Ross and they took him to Southport and Formby District and General Hospital but he died shortly afterwards . |
| 7 | And he said I was completely confused and I could n't , he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and , er , you know my mouth would n't work , he said , but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital . |
| 8 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 9 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 10 | I took my inhaler with me , and they took it off me , telling me I used it to make myself high . |
| 11 | Apparently they use to keep a little thing alive and they took it on the boat coming home |
| 12 | began the camp , there all around this er village and they took it into the er |
| 13 | That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see . |
| 14 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 15 | He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care . |
| 16 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 17 | And they began it in thirteen sixty , the time when York was just beginning to become er the most of importance as the second city of medieval England . |
| 18 | They talked to her about her ancestors , and about the Bright Palace which they called Teamhair in their soft voices , and they told her about the battles and the people who had made Ireland magical and marvellous and richer in folklore than any country could ever be . |
| 19 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 20 | " Are you at school then ? " he asked , and they told him about their two boarding-schools . |
| 21 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
| 22 | And of course not long after that erm I was took ill and er I er had to have the doctor and they sent me to hospital . |
| 23 | And they sent it to erm he sent it and he had n't he had n't done . |
| 24 | We left them some cigarettes and they sent us on our way . |
| 25 | And they transferred her to the , the Cottage and she did quite well , and she was home . |
| 26 | The Monastery of Saint James had been quite destroyed , and they passed it without halting . |
| 27 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 28 | . And they left it with you , I ca n't believe that . |
| 29 | I produced a first version of that track in a week and they had it on the TV the next night ! |
| 30 | and by he and his wife were headmaster in the village village of and their master , headmaster used to give Wallace two lessons and they had it in different houses , you know |