Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they , they got they got piecework or they got th th the , they get either piecework or they get so much for the job so much , an hourly rate for the job . |
| 2 | ‘ They realized what complete idiots they 'd make of themselves , ’ said Nigel complacently . |
| 3 | In front of his daughter ; they made her take pictures of his body … |
| 4 | The fits stopped her from being able to drive and made even daily chores like shopping difficult as they made her develop amnesia . |
| 5 | They made me feel conservative . |
| 6 | the school are doing nothing , okay what did they do , they stopped the money , yeah , they stopped him from having money , they made him pay money back which I 'm pleased about that he got |
| 7 | ‘ They made us chase shadows for long spells but we had to go after this game and that situation was tailor-made for Spartak , ’ he said . |
| 8 | They made us chase shadows for long periods . ’ |
| 9 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 10 | They asked you to cut worms in half , watch them wriggling off in two halves , made you draw blood with a compass , and watch it oozing out . |
| 11 | But the simple reason that the men the local men had nothing to do with making the agreement now so they lose they lost interest in the trade union movement . |
| 12 | They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd . |
| 13 | Well , I like them a lot , but they make me feel kind of young and stupid at times . ’ |
| 14 | and you said well if they mean you know support from from people in South Wales who |
| 15 | And they stopped her doing things . |
| 16 | They want him to have injections every month — I do n't know if they help or not — but he says they slow him up and make his legs ache and he ca n't think straight . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ England 's powers that be , in conjunction with Alec , must decide a definite policy if they want him to keep wicket . ’ |
| 18 | Parents are extremely keen to have their children admitted to the college because they want them to take advantage of the excellent education that it offers . |
| 19 | ‘ And they want you to come top . ’ |
| 20 | He told me he sometimes hated his face , hated his body because of the ease with which they helped him to dominate others . |
| 21 | ‘ the social workers wo n't allocate the case because they 're short staffed — and they expect me to get Winnie moved . ’ |
| 22 | they know , how did they know he had VD when he fucking died |
| 23 | Debbie has been referred to a Young Disabled Unit and a psychiatric unit ( ‘ On the second day they found her playing cards in the alcoholics ’ ward ’ ) . |
| 24 | They found themselves sharing stages with other guitar bands like The June Brides , Big Flame , and Age of Chance ; outfits who were later viewed as part of a new scene with The Wedding Present . |
| 25 | The Scots would be extremely unlucky to get a 1990 equivalent of Mexico 's ‘ Group of death ’ when they found themselves facing Uruguay , West Germany and Denmark . |
| 26 | They found themselves rubbing shoulders with right-wing MPs , the same who in 1984 organised a million-strong demonstration in support of private schools and for the right of the parents to choose , and who today declare themselves staunch supporters of the state secular education system . |
| 27 | British brewers do not have to declare the ingredients they use but when American consumers ran a check of Miller Lite they found it contained corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 28 | They pretended he knew Father , and that he was taking their love to him . |
| 29 | As they dismounted it crossed Floy 's mind that the longer they could delay , the better chance Fenella and Caspar had of catching them up . |
| 30 | They invited me to take part in the next one and I went along with them , having no idea what I was getting in to . |