Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , sections er , Longmans were in and they had them .
2 When a new plane came in and they assigned it to our crew , it being the principle crew and we got to name it and we named our plane Skyscraper , I do have some later pictures but er it taken in front of the plane of the crew that I was flying with at that time and the ground crew in front of Skyscraper .
3 and he used to come in here and , and if it , if Y T or , or jobs you know whatever it was going to be , they , they all come in and they knew who Steve is
4 It 's probably cos I walked in and they called me over , I mean I
5 Till the boy fell in and they fenced it off .
6 Bernard came in and they moderated their language .
7 They never actually moved in and they promised it to Daddy .
8 He went down and they carried him out .
9 me down cos they said they only wan , they wanted full-time and not , you know , not just sort of Saturday or part-time .
10 In the old days we got on with the job , jollied staff along if they needed it , kicked the sluggards in the backside , encouraged the unconfident and persuaded a reluctant and sceptical police force to use us .
11 ( The Health and Safety Department would close the place down if they saw it ! )
12 We come along and they passed my load and they turned his load away .
13 You may have to wait for one or two things but you know like like copy sometimes but I did n't used to send them s erm er contracts in unless they had everything .
14 Yeah I know , I do n't know whether she was going out or coming in but they got one there now and I think they th the one they got there now I do n't know whether the Corporation , that 's theirs or whether that 's put out to contract and I think that 's put out to contract now .
15 i it 's have you been in since they did it up ?
16 There was a mercury pool for losers to reflect in while they blew their brains out .
17 But members turned the application down as they felt it would cause more late-night trouble .
18 The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey .
19 Not that United disgraced themselves in any way at all , they matched Spurs ball for ball and played some delightful football and an awful lot of courage ; they were two nil down when they pulled it back to two one , they were three one down when they pulled it back to three two .
20 Not that United disgraced themselves in any way at all , they matched Spurs ball for ball and played some delightful football and an awful lot of courage ; they were two nil down when they pulled it back to two one , they were three one down when they pulled it back to three two .
21 The garden gradually got all tangled and interesting and took a little longer to patrol since the other cats took advantage and tried to be clever , creeping in when they thought I would n't notice .
22 Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage .
23 Bright Yorkshire prospect Adil Ditta scored 58 for Middlesbrough but they too had to fight hard for runs and were into the last over before they achieved their win by a four wicket margin .
24 the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British
25 People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors .
26 Well , you know , it you see , time were , I do n't know I suppose , I do n't know but I never seemed to be afraid and I used to have my or something round my waist , a belt with the keys hanging on and they supplied me with a as well , one of these , I do n't know what they 're made of they were n't all that heavy but still they were heavy enough to keep on .
27 Oh I shall never regret Er I do n't know but I 'm just perhaps one on me own , but er it could n't have been better for because I was a freelance and er I wanted to learn and wanted to get on and they allowed me , they allowed me to do what I wanted .
28 erm A lot of people gave as a reason for getting a particular piece of furniture the fact that it was given to them by their parents when they got married , or that a neighbour was trying to get rid of it , or that somebody from work had passed it on and they needed one .
29 If they started to cause trouble , we just asked them to move on and they appreciated it .
30 ‘ We attacked them , attacked them , attacked them all the way up that straight and round that bend but they kept pounding more and more on and they held us , ’ said Probert .
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