Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , Kensington and Kennington might be separated only by a letter of the alphabet but the streets that came between them took you out of one world and into another . |
| 2 | One or two Conservative Members have admitted today that they now recognise that they got it wrong in 1987-88 . |
| 3 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 4 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 5 | Not that United disgraced themselves in any way at all , they matched Spurs ball for ball and played some delightful football and an awful lot of courage ; they were two nil down when they pulled it back to two one , they were three one down when they pulled it back to three two . |
| 6 | Not that United disgraced themselves in any way at all , they matched Spurs ball for ball and played some delightful football and an awful lot of courage ; they were two nil down when they pulled it back to two one , they were three one down when they pulled it back to three two . |
| 7 | They rang me up at eight o'clock one morning to be there |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And they took me on in nineteen thirty six to help them you see . |
| 10 | And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days . |
| 11 | In other words , they bowled them out for 83 , Extras top-scoring with 21 ; since most of the team either were or would be Test players , that feeling of contentment must have seemed well justified . |
| 12 | He only had a little bit , but they put him away for three years . |
| 13 | from Budgen 's , when erm ah , you know at Chris , Christmas they had it down at one seventy nine a pound , did n't they ? |
| 14 | That second time I went in they left me there for two hours , and I was really cracking up . |
| 15 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |