Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 2 | Hastily she sat down , and was relieved when the tall doctor took a seat safely distant from her own and reached to the table that separated them to pour her a long drink of the invitingly iced fruit juice . |
| 3 | I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall . |
| 4 | It is as if the economy , the restraint of much of the writing passed over onto them to give them a curious accidental dignity . |
| 5 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
| 6 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 7 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 8 | And when the time come , they got her a new kidney , and it never took . |
| 9 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 10 | And whats more the club payed for the flags to be fireproofed when they realised what a potential fire hazard they were . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The sherpas climbing with her were so impressed by her stamina in temperatures around 30C below freezing they made her an honorary ‘ sherpani ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 15 | They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them . |
| 16 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 17 | I do n't think education comes into it , Chairman , because they change them every other year anyway , |
| 18 | Morality and religion open the door to oppression but in focusing so sharply on the woman 's role they make her the central symbol of the culture . |
| 19 | And the other thing about visual things , let's , let's say there is a reference to somebody having piles , but they make it a visual gag |
| 20 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Harrington and Lewis both said they found it a pleasant change from their usual routine . |
| 24 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 25 | They send him a free one every six months ! |
| 26 | Perhaps they send you a similar letter . |
| 27 | Yeah , yeah they mentioned you the other day at Eddy just said to him you know , |
| 28 | The drama starts with a brief discussion of how people might live without modern technology , and ( using the model of the pictures they have seen ) , they build themselves a fortified encampment — a wonderful image this , with chairs organised into a large circle and then laid down so that the legs all face out . |
| 29 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 30 | They 've recently decided to halt further growth , against education policy , They say its a bold move . |