Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the time come , they got her a new kidney , and it never took . |
| 2 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 3 | And whats more the club payed for the flags to be fireproofed when they realised what a potential fire hazard they were . |
| 4 | The more they reflected upon this the more they realised what a massive amount of fixed capital is necessary to eliminate human intelligence and how incredibly intelligent human beings really are . |
| 5 | ‘ He was an expert on Russian affairs — as much of an expert as MPs get to be on anything — and they made him a junior minister to add credibility to their soft-line policy . |
| 6 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 7 | I do n't think education comes into it , Chairman , because they change them every other year anyway , |
| 8 | Morality and religion open the door to oppression but in focusing so sharply on the woman 's role they make her the central symbol of the culture . |
| 9 | And the other thing about visual things , let's , let's say there is a reference to somebody having piles , but they make it a visual gag |
| 10 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 11 | And he is really responsible for bringing the three , because they deemed us a worthy cause when they saw er the work that we were doing , to perform free for us that evening in order to boost our funds . |
| 12 | Harrington and Lewis both said they found it a pleasant change from their usual routine . |
| 13 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 14 | Perhaps they send you a similar letter . |
| 15 | Yeah , yeah they mentioned you the other day at Eddy just said to him you know , |
| 16 | The drama starts with a brief discussion of how people might live without modern technology , and ( using the model of the pictures they have seen ) , they build themselves a fortified encampment — a wonderful image this , with chairs organised into a large circle and then laid down so that the legs all face out . |
| 17 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 18 | They 've recently decided to halt further growth , against education policy , They say its a bold move . |
| 19 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 20 | They show us an exquisite quantity of French cured meats , smoked crayfish , mayonnaise , salads , champagne , pâté , patisserie and chocolates . |
| 21 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |
| 22 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 23 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 24 | They told what an excellent trip it had been and how they had sat on a platform in the sunshine halfway across to eat their sandwiches with not another boat in sight . |
| 25 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 26 | Will they give me the cold shoulder ? |
| 27 | Do they give them a second thought ? |
| 28 | But why do they give you a treble boost ? |
| 29 | ‘ Ca n't they give you a prettier room ? ’ |
| 30 | Did they give you a difficult time ? |