Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they gave me a first , I would go to Cambridge . |
| 2 | He was willing , if they gave him a suitable hostage to ensure their good faith , to allow Berwick ten more days of siege , whereafter , if they were not relieved by the so-called Regent , they must surrender . |
| 3 | And he is really responsible for bringing the three , because they deemed us a worthy cause when they saw er the work that we were doing , to perform free for us that evening in order to boost our funds . |
| 4 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 5 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 6 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 7 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 8 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |
| 9 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 10 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |