Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] they [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I rang up to say I were coming I asked them did they want Easter eggs or did they want fa er a box of chocolates or bars of chocolate we |
| 2 | The trainer explained : ‘ Three of them , Jeff Newton , Mick Dews and Barry Dixon , had a horse with me called The White Lion , who won a seller and I told them to let it go . |
| 3 | Her parents had sent her to the convent , and she begged them to let her become a Catholic after she 'd been there only a year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | but it , he paid back five quid well Geoffrey said in reality it must of been about twenty quid that kid had taken but er he said they made him pay back five pounds , so at least they |
| 6 | I took that part to mean about trust between him and the board , ie he trusted them to let him have the final say etc etc . |