Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 2 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
| 3 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 4 | Victoria and Kay were so impressed with her rapport with the children that they asked her to work in the morning as well . |
| 5 | ‘ He had already contacted the police and when they came they asked me to look after the children so we sat in the car . |
| 6 | But he so impressed bosses they asked him to apply for the more senior post of general marketing director . |
| 7 | Th they told me to default on the mortgage that I 'm paying for the property that my wife lives in , because the assessment does n't take into account that I |
| 8 | They had declared at his accession , they had repeated often since , that they desired him to reign upon the selfsame terms as his predecessors ; and yet they made him aware , whenever it was needful to ask for a grant of money , that in fact he stood upon ground subtly changed , and must ask as a favour what had been Richard 's unquestioned right . |
| 9 | Another would-be Tory rebel , Walter Sweeney , who has an ultra-slim majority of 19 — Britain 's smallest — accused Central Office of ‘ hitting below the belt ’ when they forced him to abstain in the vote . |
| 10 | they offered me two for a boat , right and they offered me one while I was there , then I got home and they offered me one that late that evening , job , erm working like that was a Thursday and they wanted me to start on the week Monday , I could n't do it as it happens I had to give my weeks notice here get out there that quick , so I fucking said , I said to myself well they 've first day , they 're gon na offer me a few more , so yeah they offered me a couple more but way from so , a bit unlucky I , I wished I 'd fucking taken it |
| 11 | Hunky Richard Fairbrass , 31-year-old frontman for the Freds , explains : ‘ We thought they wanted us to dance around the flames . |