Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This afternoon they announced they intend to adjourn tomorrow night 's AGM . |
| 2 | If they failed they get told and they do n't get a certificate do they ? |
| 3 | They revealed he had been seriously injured in a knife attack at his home four months earlier and had urged them to drop their inquiries . |
| 4 | Before they met she had accepted her call-up into the armed forces because it was one of the things that happened in wartime ; accepted it because it was a moral necessity . |
| 5 | They expected everyone to do something , and then expected to tell them how it could have been done better . |
| 6 | They expected her to do it . |
| 7 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 8 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 9 | The provision of horses was unexpected , but curiously cheering , because it seemed to show that the giants were sending Floy and Snodgrass off in reasonable style , as if they expected them to return . |
| 10 | I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins . |
| 11 | However , having made an investment they expected it to pay its way and any development towards being a full-time farmer would depend very much on market prices . |
| 12 | They had surrounded him with horror and stupidity , with all the paraphernalia of this so-called human excess , and they expected it to bring him down , to reduce him still further from the once proud state he had fallen from , but they would not succeed . |
| 13 | They did all that so that we would have better opportunities , and they expected us to grab them when they came along . |
| 14 | not particularly my cup of tea but mum enjoyed them and they got everybody going and and then we had a good game of bingo . |
| 15 | They got nobody to look after us ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Erm that was on the same vein and they got they got a ce er a certain amount of national er erm national er publicity . |
| 18 | To Llaneilian to got to get it they got they got together and they got married and they had ten children . |
| 19 | If they 'd have known that when they got they got out , |
| 20 | Anyway they got they got in the end and they |
| 21 | Yeah , they got they 'd got half hour 's drive from Minehead and that their car broke down , they had to go up , they had to call the , was it the A are they ? |
| 22 | sat there watching them catch him up he did n't see them before they got him stopped like . |
| 23 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
| 24 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |
| 25 | Well bracksy and dead 's the same , they got him lying dead in the wood away down here at the . |
| 26 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 27 | Michaela , 26 , said : ‘ They got me looking for wallabies and scorpions living wild in Britain . |
| 28 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 29 | And then they got me to sign a form , they did n't say what it was for . |
| 30 | When Ivy went to see her she said oh Mrs Mr came to see me yesterday afternoon he brought another gentleman with him , a nice gentleman so I she said I think they were taking the census , they got me to sign a paper . |