Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 they always seemed backward , they found that they took them to different specialist and the truth is , they 've both left school now and got jobs , but they were er , dyslexia
2 I hated rugby but I always played when they wanted me to because I was really fast .
3 Do n't think that releasing it through your local record shop is the answer — just ask DNA what happened when they tried it with their version of Tom 's Diner shortly before the A&M rep visited the shop .
4 He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist .
5 ‘ Guest room 's good enough for him tonight , ’ Fiona grunted as they swung him onto the bed and dropped him .
6 included in mine , so it meant that they paid me for the summer holidays cos I did n't officially really
7 I thought that they appointed somebody in charge .
8 Then in a tobacconist 's window she saw ‘ cigars ’ marked fourpence and thought that they looked something like the kind she had seen Chignell buying the other night .
9 In 1985 , when Japanese chip makers last started slashing prices , America 's government insisted that they raise them in order to protect the ( virtually non-existent ) American DRAM industry .
10 But I do n't think I ever seriously considered having Low Birk Hatt connected when they offered it to me .
11 The other prisoners gasped because they expected him to be shot on the spot .
12 Chief inspector Walter Walker , who helped organise the survey , explained , ‘ Many said that they wanted us to be more friendly and caring , and give more information to visitors .
13 I said like they say it in films .
14 Because he did n't , he stayed cos they class him as an A person .
15 Put in isolation , she washed when they told her to , ate what they gave her .
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