Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 2 | They got nobody to look after us ! |
| 3 | Anyway they got they got in the end and they |
| 4 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
| 5 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |
| 6 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 7 | Michaela , 26 , said : ‘ They got me looking for wallabies and scorpions living wild in Britain . |
| 8 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 9 | ‘ They got me going by guaranteeing my expenses until I started to win some prize money . |
| 10 | And they got it done at the Registry , very quiet . |
| 11 | It was like a rubbish dump , and yet there 's good old erm , grounds man , as soon as the had gone , they were down there , there was half a dozen of them and they got it cleaned in two days . |
| 12 | On the perfectly flat sandy beach little green , red , blue boats , so pretty in shape and colour that they made one think of flowers … |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , they made me go into the army . |
| 14 | They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them . |
| 15 | They made me think of beads and mirrors for the benighted natives . |
| 16 | They did n't like the EVO column one bit and finally they made me choose between them and it . ’ |
| 17 | They made me feel of some value again and the warmth was flooding through me long before the kettle had boiled on the iron stove in the corner . |
| 18 | Sheila , who said she put the cigarette out when told to , said : ‘ They made me feel like a criminal . |
| 19 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 20 | ‘ They made me feel like … some species that had got into the wrong time slot . |
| 21 | When it was over , she walked across to the television , switched it off , turned to look at Charlotte and said : ‘ They made me sound like an unfeeling bitch . ’ |
| 22 | I used to try and act in straight plays but I was so bad they made me act with my back to the audience . |
| 23 | He nearly had a nervous breakdown so they made him go to Plumford . |
| 24 | In fact they made him look like a schoolboy showing off his Cadet uniform to a schoolgirl who was really more into sending her underwear to Prince or David Lee Roth . |
| 25 | They made what seemed to me rather artificial efforts to draw me into the conversation . |
| 26 | He sensed her own excitement as they made what amounted to — considering the circumstances and the time lapse — quite desultory conversation . |
| 27 | On the whole , he disliked comparisons , because they made you think about more than one thing at a time . |
| 28 | they took ya in , into their home and , and they made you feel like part of the family |
| 29 | Very good , they made you feel like sick . |
| 30 | They made us stay at one end of the room . |