Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | they sent me a cheque for twenty five P and I was going to tear it up I thought well no I might as well put it in the in the bank twenty five P . |
| 2 | They only used to ever lock the door from the outside and er I er had to make er fifty and as I say , number them one up to fifty and er then they 'd perhaps on a odd occasion they sent me an order for one , the number the number |
| 3 | She says : ‘ When I went to arrange the AA insurance for the car they offered me a policy for us as well and , thank goodness , I decided to take it . ’ |
| 4 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 5 | They gave me a cheque for some stuff , but Keith just wanted to spend it and did n't really think about what he was buying . |
| 6 | I became a socialist there because while I did not agree with everything said by the Marxists I met and with whom I became friendly , they gave me a language for understanding the painful separations of class . |
| 7 | But anyway we , they must have been so impressed by the , the order that they got , that they gave us the agency for Galashiels and Selkirk for the Austin . |