Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] them [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday it went very well indeed , yes , I , we made forty four pounds , twenty nine pence on the day and then Betty went to Sawbridgeworth with some cushion covers and managed to sell them off for another five pounds so we got . |
| 2 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 3 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 4 | But , as other African countries have discovered , African insurance companies were too small to carry major risks and had to lay them off with foreign re-insurers . |
| 5 | ‘ To be honest I wanted to keep them out of all this . |