Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But then when they went up when they passed it just two year ago it was fenced off .
2 In a Sunday Correspondent questionnaire two years ago , they rated their most overused word , ‘ dick ’ .
3 They caused her very real distress .
4 They classed it as attempted robbery , because I never hurt anybody .
5 They took 'im away last week .
6 They took me home that night in Gillian 's rebarbatively quotidian motor-car .
7 yesterday and they sent him home last week and he 's on crutches at the moment .
8 They chose their most notable candidate of the 1920s , Alfred E. Smith , Governor of New York State .
9 Labour MPs will be challenged by the Tories not to vote against the zero increase in their pay when it comes before the Commons before April , but they are already cushioned by a 39 per cent increase in allowances they voted themselves earlier this year .
10 They gave him this little jolt of fun .
11 For instance , they gave us just two power lines per side on a huge concert stage , and just one spotlight , and that was all the lights they gave us , and they gave us half the PA .
12 To his hosts , it must have seemed a possibility , at least , that in William Joyce they had their most important catch of all the queer fish at Charlottenburg .
13 And they had one particularly favourite occupation .
14 And and they had one there last week , a light one and on the s the and on each end was a little drawer .
15 They left it late last year despite their money , but look what they 're doing in the Premier League . ’
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