Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all sat round the van , the caravan about quarter to four and she 'd just got one , she 'd got one of her friends and they got theirs about quarter to four . |
| 2 | ‘ They told me little James 's coat was around his head , ’ Kevin claimed . |
| 3 | So anyway , they rang me up Friday night , and said , oh , seen this house , it 's lovely and really nice . |
| 4 | He came back readily when his name was spoken ; they saw him not tools-in-hand in his lodge under the church , nor frowning thoughtfully over his tracing tables , but naked to the waist and brown in the harvest-fields , swinging a sickle instead of a mallet , a slender young fellow with grass seeds in his tangle of dark hair , who might have come out of any cottage in the hamlet . |
| 5 | No they sent them out Saturday , Sunday |
| 6 | They gave them much latitude in day-to-day operations and allowed them to mould law and order policies according to counter-insurgency theories . |
| 7 | Ambulancemen told his parents that when they first attended Craig they gave him only minutes to live . |
| 8 | ‘ If they gave me more money , I suppose . |
| 9 | They had someone out front in an old van , someone round the back by the car park , and PC Stephen Robinson up the hill with two other officers , Adrian Grater and Clive Strachan . |
| 10 | He 'd lolled half-conscious in their arms as they carried him along corridors and up stairs . |