Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] told [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke . |
| 2 | He 's had about three pints but that 's what they 've told him to take . |
| 3 | You 've stood and looked at them you 've listened to what they 've told you , now what can you do ? |
| 4 | What they had told me put quite a different complexion on the ‘ mystery ’ . |
| 5 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 6 | It was the memory of what they had told him of Callanish , and of the eagles that came from there . |
| 7 | And what they have told us is that the first body was too far decomposed to be very helpful . |