Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] with [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
2 | That would drive him to madness , to the place they most wanted him , the place in which it would be even more difficult to find the Key ; an institution , a hospital where they filled you up with all sorts of disgusting drugs and deliberately kept you as stupid as the rest . |
3 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
4 | When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire . |
5 | As soon as McMahon helped them solve that ( his computations backed the coach , who said the track should be banked as high as his belt buckle at the outside of the turn ) , they called him back with another question : how springy should they make the track ? |
6 | And he came back to er and started again and er he 'd just er er the big manufacturer engineering er people made us lace machines then and they started him off with three , and he 'd paid off one and part of the other when he died . |
7 | The regard in which chiefs held their jade ornaments is shown by the way they stored them along with prized bird plumage in the elaborately carved wooden treasure boxes which rank among the most outstanding products of Maori art . |