Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why could n't they 've made it the Soton game ? ? |
| 2 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 3 | But they 'd seen him the moment he saw them , so he kept on walking towards them . |
| 4 | Timothy Gedge , with his hollow cheeks and his gawkiness , had picked on them even though he did n't know them , even though they 'd done him no harm . |
| 5 | If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back . |
| 6 | He wished they 'd left him the radio mast , so that he could at least listen to some music and pick up the news . |
| 7 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 8 | And he said yes but it 's , it 's the accommodation we 've got , maybe it 's a Company move and they 've given them an apartment or something , seven months old , you know , that big , so by the time |
| 9 | My Uncle Stan and Aunt Alice are very good to me and more than good to Carrie , they 've given her a start in life she would never have had here . |
| 10 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
| 11 | ‘ They 've given me a lot of furniture and other things that have been passed down through the generations . |
| 12 | Now she came away thinking I 've got this secondhand car and they 've given me a warranty . |
| 13 | ‘ They 've given me a roomette or some such , but I take this thing seriously . |
| 14 | It 's a compliment in itself that they 've given me the chance … ’ |
| 15 | They 've given me an elbow crutch , and I can make the journey perfectly well now , if I thought the blasted train would stay on the lines , but there 's not much I could do once I got to Moila , is there , if I ca n't walk ? |
| 16 | They 've given him a price just for painting the walls . |
| 17 | It 's going through that system , and once they 've given us the go ahead then we can go to the solicitor in Lancaster . |
| 18 | They 've given you the clefs . |
| 19 | You tend to be rather poorly which is why they 've given you the blood transfusion . |
| 20 | Yeah they 've charged me a fiver 's fucking commission on that . |
| 21 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 22 | Well they 've sent you a letter from hospital . |
| 23 | They 've called it the Fellowship of Christian Spiritualists of 24 Stranraer Gardens , and they have a lot of fun , singing and dancing and playing the tambourine in the back room downstairs . |
| 24 | But they 've called it the house ? |
| 25 | ‘ They 've told me the plan is that I should be opening , all things being equal , ’ he explained . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've spoken to the doctors at the hospital where he was treated , and they 've told me the whole long , miserable story . |
| 27 | They 've picked themselves a chairman in David Harris of Adobe and the board includes Peter Winston of Xhibition , Peter Shaw of AGE Logic , Stephen King of Tektronix , Brian Fitzgerald of DEC and Michael Harrigan of NCD and Anil Malhotra of IXI . |
| 28 | They 've brought you a farewell present but they think it 's just too big . |
| 29 | An example of that would be if you bought a new pocket calculator and then find it wo n't work then the legal position is the shop have broken their contract with you , because they 've sold you a pocket calculator which is not of merchantable quality , and you should be entitled to money back in a case like that . |
| 30 | They 've sponsored us a consultancy , |