Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With some , like Tony Jacklin or Susan Hampshire , it is perfectly obvious they got it through hard work in their particular calling . |
| 2 | They had you by your short and curlies the minute they got you into that uniform . ’ |
| 3 | But they got us into this mess , it 's up to them to get us out of it . |
| 4 | But , ca n't they treat it in this country ? |
| 5 | They asked me for more money . |
| 6 | No , the council 's took it over , they sold it to this bloke . |
| 7 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 8 | ‘ I have three or four : two black Strats , a Les Paul Junior with a neck-through-body — really heavy guitar , sustains really well — a Flying V that they built me with one pickup — neck-through-body also — and a regular Flying V. ’ |
| 9 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 10 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 11 | Why did they need him for this job ? |
| 12 | If you 've got tetanus , to stop you breaking your back with these muscle contractions , so that they can nurse you adequately , they inject you with this stuff and you are paralysed until the tetanus has been fought off . |
| 13 | During the course of er this meeting you will hear from the Chairman and the Honorary Treasurer and we may well cover an enormous amount of the grounds that is relevant to you as commodores , members and officers of the Association and it might be worth , I am going to avoid what he 's trying to avoid most of that area because I believe they cover it in greater detail and give you more of an opportunity to find out precisely what 's been going on . |
| 14 | When did they bring you to this prison ? ’ |
| 15 | You see in consecrated ground so they buried her in this bit of wheat land at the Muckle Water there . |
| 16 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |
| 17 | before they transferred him to another prison . |
| 18 | And I cos I was amazed they told me about this salt rubbish ! |
| 19 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
| 20 | Why should they associate them with each other ? |
| 21 | They took me along and they put me into this dormitory . |
| 22 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |
| 23 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 24 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 25 | ‘ They put us under tremendous pressure . |
| 26 | But I do n't know if it 's still there , is thing they put it in last year I think , but I . |
| 27 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |
| 28 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |
| 29 | They swear black and blue , they charge you for that meter as well ! |
| 30 | They charge it by each phone or generally . |