Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " 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 | 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 |
| 3 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire . |
| 10 | They rang me up at eight o'clock one morning to be there |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Dorothea had often wondered about the crumbs , whether they stored them up in some kitchen jar and you got them , months later , coating your fish . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And they took me on in nineteen thirty six to help them you see . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I watched it for a day or two , then they sent me out of that part of the house , because they knew I was watching what went on . |
| 18 | But no I think er they thought I could speak English better than some of them themselves so they sent me off to English universities or wherever to put across our problems . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Though they loved him as if he were their own child they left him out of all things that mattered in the running of the house . |
| 22 | So well we could go out there anyway to see whether they 've got any er you see if they carried it on for another month |
| 23 | His commuter companions were impressed by this sudden fame , and Dad told me delightedly how they pointed him out to each other on Platform Two . |
| 24 | they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house |