Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] a " in BNC.

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1 So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden .
2 And when the time come , they got her a new kidney , and it never took .
3 It was the same when her Mum got when it happened to her they got her a load of new clothes and she was trying them on and grandad said hey get in here now .
4 And whats more the club payed for the flags to be fireproofed when they realised what a potential fire hazard they were .
5 The more they reflected upon this the more they realised what a massive amount of fixed capital is necessary to eliminate human intelligence and how incredibly intelligent human beings really are .
6 They made her a slave labourer .
7 They made her a cup of coffee .
8 Fate : you ca n't go straight , nobody ever really crashes out , they made me a criminal , nobody lives for ever …
9 They made me a general 'cause I 'm old .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 They made it a rule never to pay , never to bribe , never to threaten to prosecute except in the case of dealers who could sell a young orang for several hundred pounds on the black market .
12 They made it a rule that she was never to be alone .
13 Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry .
14 ‘ Is that why they made you a general ? ’
15 They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’
16 They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them .
17 Well he , he did n't really say a lot , er they asked him a question and er he , he just turned round and said er we hope , we hope it 's er a peaceful solution , that er virtually saying he hoped it did n't come to war , and Christine turned round and said ‘ yes we want a peaceful solution ’ .
18 They asked us a stream of questions , and laughed and chattered about themselves and their children .
19 They asked you a question to trap you
20 Now if you think you have been pleasant and helpful , you 've shared things with somebody , if they asked you a question you did n't bang them on the head , you helped , sign it now we come to the real sixty thousand point question , are you ready for this ?
21 After I graduated from high school in 1984 I shaved my head and kept my hair short and they labelled me a skinhead .
22 When he first started to air his views on intensive farming methods they labelled him a crank and hoped he would go away .
23 Tip — I think the world of Tip junior and I did the father ; they helped me a lot — just did n't realize I 'd come all the way over from Ireland by boat and by train up to St Andrews to carry Arnold 's bag .
24 And he is really responsible for bringing the three , because they deemed us a worthy cause when they saw er the work that we were doing , to perform free for us that evening in order to boost our funds .
25 They charged you a fortune and left you with nothing but a hopelessly constricting grid .
26 what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny .
27 They found them a few days later , taking refuge in a small village of thatched mud-walled cabins at the foot of the Partry mountains .
28 They found him a teacher of clarity , whose lectures were the most enjoyable and most instructive which they heard during their training .
29 They found him a job as a Foreign Office translator .
30 Bere Forest also had a tough match against Meridian B and , once again , they found themselves a goal down at half time but they took a 2–1 lead in the second half before Meridian B equalized to take the game into extra time .
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