Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't really like the people at OUCA [ the Oxford University Conservative Association ] , they just struck me as spotty spods . ’ |
| 2 | They just picked you at random ? |
| 3 | If people genuinely wanted social change from the educational system ( and they did ) , they generally wanted it in familiar guise . |
| 4 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 5 | They also ran it on several ‘ fake personalities ’ which the control group was instructed to concoct , in the same way as Thurber 's Mr Martin . |
| 6 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 7 | The Scouts had rushed skiddingly from one pod to the next , annihilating languid swanky drugsters , warbling liquorites , squirming orgiasts who were responding to the war in their own indulgent style , if they even heeded it at all . |
| 8 | During the first summer and autumn on the island , the English had built another sloop — thirty tons , clinker-hulled , two masted — from felled mahogany trees they dragged down from the forest ; they then fitted her with four barbaresque guns forged in the Italian style , transported from Europe by the Hopewell . |
| 9 | Then , with great creative inspiration and insight , they painstakingly transformed it into one of Lincolnshire 's most original and interesting restaurants . |
| 10 | Well it well ah but ah but they never they never killed it in that quantity as they 're doing it now . |