Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he said , ‘ Well , it 's amazing , you know , they got to build her a , a special khazi that they 're going to knock down afterwards . |
| 2 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
| 3 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 4 | However we have always found that most seamen are good natured fellows , and they seemed to bear us no malice . |
| 5 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 6 | But they 'd seen him the moment he saw them , so he kept on walking towards them . |
| 7 | Timothy Gedge , with his hollow cheeks and his gawkiness , had picked on them even though he did n't know them , even though they 'd done him no harm . |
| 8 | They 'd heard her a little at rehearsal , but not properly , not consistently , and not without interruption and background noise . |
| 9 | If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back . |
| 10 | He wished they 'd left him the radio mast , so that he could at least listen to some music and pick up the news . |
| 11 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 12 | ’ There was even some guy in Minnesota or Detroit or somewhere who killed a load of people and they started to call them the Lost Boy Murders , but I did n't take too much notice of it all . |
| 13 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 14 | The Indians ran out of arrows — they decided to call it a day |
| 15 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 16 | ‘ I have had no hassle from the other women but the prison guards at Risley were awful , they kept calling me the Duchess , ’ she says with a touch of nastiness . |
| 17 | They did send me a cheque for £8 , which I returned as inadequate . |
| 18 | They did give me the name of the hospital Salome was in and the taller one told me that the accident had happened ‘ just off the M20 near Wrotham ’ , but they had no more details , they were just running errands for the Kent police . |
| 19 | And if they did give you the sack you would be walked away to the army I expect . |
| 20 | and erm , and then every time the poor women went to get off stage he says oh Joan you ca n't go , come here , let's , he said we ca n't just give you that so he , he called her back and they bought give her a rabbit |
| 21 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |
| 22 | They had to give me a brandy , I were in a right state me ! |
| 23 | to get rid of the abscess , oh god it was painful , it really was , in fact I had it once , I had a load of penicillin , did n't finish the penicillin and it came back again and they had to give me a stronger drug then for five days |
| 24 | They had to give it a quarter turn you see with a spanner . |
| 25 | Returning Edward the proofs of his book , Helen commented : ‘ This has indeed been a fair spring for us , though they had made it a winter . |
| 26 | they 'd take a piece with them and that was all they had to sustain them the whole day . |
| 27 | They had followed it every morning and would continue to follow it until their sentences were up . |
| 28 | Before either of them could say a word , he turned and began to speak as though they had asked him a question . |
| 29 | They had given her a list . |
| 30 | When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run . |