Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stevie might have tended to exaggerate , but although she had rich parents , she worked as a waitress in Los Angeles to support Lindsey , and they roughed it around a bit . |
| 2 | But I was rewriting that to try to get the lines to work and all of those things , and they mess it up a little bit , which annoyed me . |
| 3 | He wrote for a catalogue , and they sent him back a list of ten titles . |
| 4 | One contained a great still lake , and they crossed it along a rock-bridge that sprang dizzily from wall to wall . |
| 5 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 6 | Of course at school they always tell you that you should do a secretarial course , which was absolutely dreadful , and they put you off the idea of a career in the theatre just as much as they can . |
| 7 | I refused to go in my cell and they put us down the block . |
| 8 | Then another time I smashed my cell up and slashed my arms and that , because I did n't get any letters or anything like that , so one of the screws came in and they put us down the block . |
| 9 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 10 | I just cracked up , and they put us down the block . |
| 11 | reported it and they send him out the flats . |
| 12 | so he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or but they make him up a bed on that . |
| 13 | It all went wrong when they discovered something up a gum-tree in Malaysia and called it gutta-percha . |
| 14 | When they pulled her out the vase had n't a crack in it , and then the air-raid warden stumbled … ’ |
| 15 | I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on . |
| 16 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |