Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the time come , they got her a new kidney , and it never took . |
| 2 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 3 | ‘ He was an expert on Russian affairs — as much of an expert as MPs get to be on anything — and they made him a junior minister to add credibility to their soft-line policy . |
| 4 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 5 | And he is really responsible for bringing the three , because they deemed us a worthy cause when they saw er the work that we were doing , to perform free for us that evening in order to boost our funds . |
| 6 | Harrington and Lewis both said they found it a pleasant change from their usual routine . |
| 7 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 8 | Yeah , yeah they mentioned you the other day at Eddy just said to him you know , |
| 9 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |
| 10 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 11 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 12 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 13 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 14 | I went to Newark and got a job at , a ball bearing factory , and er they paid me the handsome wage of er two pounds sixteen for forty seven hours . |
| 15 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |
| 16 | They showed me a new way of life . |
| 17 | The fact that they reserved me a front row seat in the Big Top of their felicity did assist in throttling back the glooms . |
| 18 | They handed me a cardboard plate on which was an apple , a slice of cake , and some homemade toffee . |
| 19 | JAMES : Ian says that when Dorky Caswell and Sexy Phil ( ? ) reviewed R3 they awarded it an overall mark of 92% . |
| 20 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 21 | They called him the One-Eyed Guest and Elisabeth recalled how , when she was young , the peasants never harvested a field without putting out a sheaf for Odin 's horse . |
| 22 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 23 | In the old Tarzan movies they used drums , and they also used natives and the warriors carried a stick , they called it a forked stick and it looks like the assembly might need a new set of forked sticks |
| 24 | Twenty-five years later , when Thérèse and Léonie at last began to talk to each other about that time , they called it the odd summer . |
| 25 | Years ago they had all these narrow looms , about this size , and this is where women worked , they called it the narrow section , and maybe mostly for hotels or you know , in the olden days they had stair , your mother 'll probably , stair runners or holes and the , the carpet just went like that and there 'd be a piece of lino up the side , |
| 26 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 27 | MANCHESTER UNITED and Leeds were first and second on this day last year — and they kept it a two-horse race to the end in the old First Division . |
| 28 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 29 | They sent us a bloody cutter |
| 30 | Yeah , and they did , they sent us a whole vanload of , of instruments and I can remember the , the evening we , we put all these instruments in the conference room there and the gang of enthusiasts arrived and , and they said and what would you like to play ? |