Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I see they 've instructed you in the story of your birth , since you had so thriving a grudge against me . |
| 2 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 3 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 4 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 5 | They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days . |
| 6 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
| 7 | The two biffos would have come sneaking through the door , rubbing their hands and telling themselves they 'd got me by the balls , and I 'd have pointed the extinguisher and put out their fire . |
| 8 | The top management did n't bother about that , they know left it to the local you see . |
| 9 | Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like |
| 10 | They 've invited you to the wedding . ’ |
| 11 | One old man hauled into a police van declared : ‘ They 've invited us to the birthday celebrations , do n't you see ! ’ |
| 12 | ( ‘ They 've kicked us in the teeth so often ’ , ‘ They tried to write us off like they did Kenya ; but we would n't stand for it . ’ ) |
| 13 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |
| 14 | I 'm sure Linfield would rather have got to the first round proper by playing football but at least they 've played it by the rules and good luck to them against Copenhagen . |
| 15 | and erm I went to a youth club and I I was speaking to eight year olds and they 're asking about condoms cos they 've seen them in the street , so it 's obviously they 're wanting to find out about it cos it 's everywhere around them even , does n't matter what age . |
| 16 | Sometimes you get hung up on people wanting to know you just because they 've seen you on the telly , and of course that is n't there with other actors . |
| 17 | They 've done it in the Vale . |
| 18 | And they 've clouted it from the outside going in . |
| 19 | Scrumpy should come up , scrumpy should come up all clouded you know , you know with bits of sheep and er bit bits of sheep and rats and that lying about in it were they 've thrown them into the you think I 'm joking do n't you ? |
| 20 | And look they 've put them on the bottom , instead of doing the top ones first , they obviously have n't . |
| 21 | They 've put him on the top floor like the other ones we 've had . ’ |
| 22 | I wager they 've put him in the meanest , coldest room , without even a brazier , after the way he spoke to Matilda . |
| 23 | They 've put it in the sun whatever it is . |
| 24 | They 've helped me with the baby , they take her away for a couple of hours a day , and they take you out to places — sports centres and hospitals . |
| 25 | Well they 're doing the best they 've got them with the . |
| 26 | The problem , Mr Chairman , is that after they 've got them into the authority , they 'll forget all about us again . |
| 27 | no , they 've got them in the garden |
| 28 | yeah , they 've got them in the garden anyway have n't they ? |
| 29 | Yes , but they 're going and then they 've got them in the ponds , they 've got them all in their ponds , so they 're obviously okay , they 're for ponds so it , I think if we probably get ten , fifteen on the , cos I 'm gon na be so used to seeing them , cos I 'm gon na be ordering those , I 'll order all the carps and you 've got as well |
| 30 | I think that i i i I do n't , I 'd I I reckon they 've got him on the kidnapping charge . |