Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They expected her to do it . |
| 2 | They had surrounded him with horror and stupidity , with all the paraphernalia of this so-called human excess , and they expected it to bring him down , to reduce him still further from the once proud state he had fallen from , but they would not succeed . |
| 3 | They did all that so that we would have better opportunities , and they expected us to grab them when they came along . |
| 4 | And they put on every consultant through out training course they got I think we 've made I think we 've got sixty five . |
| 5 | Have they given you have they given you the length of two sides ? |
| 6 | Now they have aerial wires attached to the masts and they made me think they must intend to use her for some sort of electronic surveillance . |
| 7 | There they made him sing them a song and were enchanted by the noises which came out . |
| 8 | Having had experience of managing local bands and promoting one or two of Runrig 's gigs , they asked her to manage them . |
| 9 | They asked me to join them , but I did n't want to … |
| 10 | A group of friends was going to St Servan near St Malo and they asked me to join them . |
| 11 | ‘ They asked me to tell you , ’ Adam lied . |
| 12 | He , they left the er they 'd gone said leave it in the conservatory , then he went out and and and and er shut his conservatory so they could n't leave it so they asked me to keep it for him . |
| 13 | As some of the other legionnaires could n't write very well , they asked me to help them with their letters . |
| 14 | They asked me to follow them without any explanation and blindfolded me . |
| 15 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 16 | Yes , yes , they have er , a temporary student , and they asked him to leave us , he 's , there 's no work for him like . |
| 17 | They asked us to take them as a matter of urgency because the children were in such poor condition |
| 18 | and , they asked us did we want to take over the dinners because |
| 19 | THEY ASKED US TO CONTACT YOU . |
| 20 | If they guarantee to put the mattresses all up in the dry they asked you to do yours or did they say they would do it ? |
| 21 | ‘ They asked you to do it ? ’ |
| 22 | Sometimes when you 're doing radio interviews they introduce you like you 're a '70s rock star making a comeback . |
| 23 | I know I 'm so they they eat you see they 've eaten fish and chips and it goes through the air conditioning and it comes into the studio you all you can smell is fish and chips . |
| 24 | But did they want it to bother him ? |
| 25 | For ever and ever I 've followed this team It 's Leeds United They make me scream We always get mastered By who ? |
| 26 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 27 | And then they make you do it — with a gun pointed at the back of your neck . |
| 28 | They make you feel they 're trying to raise the tone of the whole proceedings . |
| 29 | they make you make you look sort of intelligent sort of |
| 30 | They mean they make it , in many situations , make it pointless of people to try and found jobs . |