Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 2 | Er he 's gone to Barnsley , cos they asked me to ask for this , gone to Barnsley . |
| 3 | So , when Fisher Fine Art closed down , they asked us to take on some of the artists and we decided to try out Gwen Hardie whom I think is promising . |
| 4 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 5 | But they had nothing to do with cheap mullet . |
| 6 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 7 | If they wanted him to sing with that ugly old bitch , then sing he would . |
| 8 | They wanted me to go on casual . |
| 9 | ‘ They wanted us to work against each other . |