Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they got me this lovely velvet one . |
| 2 | erm he did n't think they had any bilingual signs and they did n't have they were n't using their Portakabins so they scrapped them all last year sold them off . |
| 3 | I know , but it 's too dear , I looked at that and thought it would be nice to have your name on a brick , but to me twenty pound , if they made it cheaper more people would buy it would n't they ? , what building is it ? |
| 4 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |
| 5 | There 's only that bus stop and then it turns down you yet they charged me thirty five pence and that were n't even half past three . |
| 6 | they charged me thirty six quid for a plus V A T , plus a fiver till I bring back the other one . |
| 7 | Cos I nearly died I got on bus other day and they charged me eighty five pence I looked at me clock and it were twenty past nine . |
| 8 | They told me that sexual examination is a routine part of the entry certificate procedure at British Diplomatic missions in the Indian subcontinent . |
| 9 | ‘ On November 1 they told us that normal Christmas arrangements would apply — that we would work for most of the holiday period — then they dropped this bombshell on November 22 and said we would be off for two weeks . |
| 10 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
| 11 | One day they handed us some chipped potatoes , and there was enough oil on them to boil another portion . |
| 12 | So what have we got , have they sent me some new textbooks ? |
| 13 | They gave her some astonishing Ophir crystal that made her feel three metres tall and very sharp . |
| 14 | ‘ They gave us that big build-up . |
| 15 | On the other hand the material which Eliot had put into Pound 's hands turned out to be so inchoate that many readers were led to wonder how far the poem as they had it all these years was in any authentic sense Eliot 's at all . |
| 16 | They wished him all possible prosperity in the future , and went on to elect Dr. Thackeray unanimously as physician to the infirmary . |