Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 2 | Well bracksy and dead 's the same , they got him lying dead in the wood away down here at the . |
| 3 | It had identified itself as Churchill 's private secretary , Jock Colville , and said they realized he had some news to tell them . |
| 4 | As they rode they made gruff , barking sounds ; not war cries , just encouragement to their horses . |
| 5 | So blue , so bright , they made her feel mesmerised and shaky , and , hating herself for standing meekly while she was being insulted , she hardened her expression . |
| 6 | The effect of the collar and the cameo were remarkable , as Helen herself had dispassionately noted a few minutes before in her mirror : they made her look softer , prettier and younger . |
| 7 | She 'd reverted to her glasses because she thought they made her look older and more respectable , somehow , the way people wanted a doctor to look . |
| 8 | I half disapproved of these costumes , they made me feel uncomfortable , but at the same time I admired and envied her , she was so original and unconcerned . |
| 9 | They made me feel sad . |
| 10 | But they made me feel great , I told them , " I want to live here . " |
| 11 | It was awful , because although I 'd worn the dress all day , and stuck up for myself , I did feel bad about it ; they made me feel bad , sort of guilty , as if I was showing off my body . |
| 12 | They made me feel muzzy . |
| 13 | They made me feel older than they were . |
| 14 | The more able in the group felt they ‘ could n't tell us anything we do n't already know ’ or they were ‘ depressing ’ , while the remainder said that they did not like them because they made them feel inadequate . |
| 15 | they 've made it so as it , it do , you see I , I , I reckon you ought to open my let me make them in te in steel because er they made them like that so that when you pull them off or adjust them |
| 16 | The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy . |
| 17 | Yesterday they chalked up their third win of the season … they made it look easy , the score thirty points to two … already the Oxfordshire American footballers are on target for making the National League playoffs . |
| 18 | They made us scrub all the way through pregnancy as well , right up to the end . |
| 19 | I says I want to learn sommat so I went to and I do n't know what it was , whether it was my attitude , but they , they asked me to do this and I was so good at it , so they started finding jobs for me and it was at and I was anxious for knowledge , and I tell you took anything on , which is important and the big firms did n't . |
| 20 | They asked me to make sure that you are well . |
| 21 | They asked me to get thirty-six teams , at one point in was fifty-seven but it settled down to thirty-six |
| 22 | they asked him to remember all the things he could about the trip from earth . |
| 23 | In October he summoned to Amman the local notables favourable to his rule , where they asked him to put all Arab-occupied Palestine under his protection . |
| 24 | Hitherto , when they asked us to obey those laws , we have known that we could change them , but hereafter a combination of people with different languages , understandings and cultures can set , and are by combination setting , upon us standards , rules and laws which may be suitable for Greece , central or northern Europe , France or Spain but which are not right for us . |
| 25 | The smell of the fungus attracts flies and when they land they collect some of the jelly on their legs , which they then carry away , so spreading the fungus . |
| 26 | T frankly , yes it did , but I mean you were reading it pretty well correctly the way they read I mean most of us read things I know I do myself , one reads things quicker than perhaps some would if we were reading them on a radio or something . |
| 27 | For example , management may be buying a specific business out of a larger group of companies because they perceive it to have greater value as a single concern than its ( often ) discounted value as part of the vendor 's group . |
| 28 | I mean if they insist they want all that I mean I 'll if they insist they want the interest as well then I 'm in er a bit of a spot |
| 29 | speaking on my own for my own personal point of view erm if they if they insist they want this full amount |
| 30 | ‘ When they swarm they destroy all in their way . |