Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Gone away to the funny farm , yeah , they let me out last week . |
2 | well they must of had a profe really good whistling must n't they but why they brought her on last night I think she was hopeless |
3 | They brought her out thirty hours later , though she had no idea how much time had passed . |
4 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
5 | Er yes a lot of folk went out that way with their ponies er in fact that 's how they used to take the men when any Glen Shee person died in Glen Ayloch they took them out that way to the kirk here in Glen Shee kirk . |
6 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
7 | she , she was , no , I do n't see why they had her on last night , terrible I mean I could n't even tell what |
8 | I think about the last ones that was taken there was an old man Ramsey that died at er Dalvaine , and they carried him out that way . |
9 | Rushing to buy the dollar ( mainly by selling D-marks ) to cover their dollar loans , they pushed it up four pfennigs within an hour . |
10 | I think they work it out that way . |
11 | I do n't like to have runners to out and get me meals , I do n't like to call down to room service and ask them to bring me up some cigarettes — it 's just not normal . |