Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And then they got me to sign a form , they did n't say what it was for . |
| 3 | I then did a physical which they made me run a mile and a half , did press ups , sit ups , which I passed . |
| 4 | They made him dig a grave in the rocky ground at 1.00 am and then forced him to lie in it while they shovelled earth over him . |
| 5 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 6 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 7 | Her first commission came about quite casually : ‘ My husband and I had gone to stay with friends and they asked me to do a charcoal drawing of their Dachshund , Rosy . |
| 8 | They asked him to make a speech entitled : ‘ What kind of paper and how we 're going to sell 1.5 million . ’ |
| 9 | Once inside , they found themselves facing a glass door , which gave on to the college garden . |
| 10 | Now they used something called a tachistoscope , I 'm not sure about the spelling of that , which you do n't come across these days , it tends to be computers that 're used . |
| 11 | They used it to buy a truck , which earned more money , which they used in turn to create a new farm , with further grants from the government . |
| 12 | Tiles were the ro making the tiles was a major operation because erm when they first tried to make the tiles they tried they dug a hole big hole at Rawcliffe and they they tried to make forty thousand tiles , line them all up in the pit and they brought something like forty tonnes of dry wood chippings from the erm saw mills in er forest but they could n't quite get it hot enough so the whole lot had to be thrown away do again . |
| 13 | They invited him to have a go . |
| 14 | They assumed I had a doctorate or something . ’ |
| 15 | First , they allowed us to develop a collage of the kinds of problem thought to be critical by the group . |
| 16 | They heard him give a cry of wonder from the other side and followed him . |
| 17 | Er they watched they watched a bit of Spot and a bit of Paddington . |
| 18 | Later they watched her playing a chukka with seven other contenders for the scholarship . |
| 19 | Now of course what happened is that we claimed , we w went to the insurance and then they took they got a list of what was damaged and we replaced it for what he 'd lost er exactly . |
| 20 | The light shows through the membrane-type front panel — which a couple of people here did n't like because they felt it looked a bit cheap . |
| 21 | They persuaded me to have a termination . ’ |
| 22 | It showed that they were not anxious , that they knew they had a treasure . |
| 23 | ‘ They knew they had a hell of a battle on their hands and the first thing I stressed was that we had to fight to win the ball — and we did , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 25 | Wherever they went they represented a frontier of the Kingdom ( Luke 10:1 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Kevin Brown says it was almost as if he was hit by a bazooka , right in front of them , but they saw nothing like a bazooka . |
| 27 | AIDS ( acquired immune deficiency syndrome ) was first called GRID ( gay-related immune deficiency ) and , by homosexuals themselves when they thought they had a monopoly of it , the Gay Plague . |
| 28 | The workers for whom employers competed were not merely the ones with the bargaining strength to make unions practicable , but also those most aware that ‘ the market ’ alone guaranteed them neither security nor what they thought they had a right to . |
| 29 | Were they did they need a lot of attention ? |
| 30 | They said they had a knife and would attack him if he did n't hand over his own vehicle . |