Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] a [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Harrington and Lewis both said they found it a pleasant change from their usual routine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They showed me a new way of life . |
| 7 | The fact that they reserved me a front row seat in the Big Top of their felicity did assist in throttling back the glooms . |
| 8 | They handed me a cardboard plate on which was an apple , a slice of cake , and some homemade toffee . |
| 9 | JAMES : Ian says that when Dorky Caswell and Sexy Phil ( ? ) reviewed R3 they awarded it an overall mark of 92% . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They sent us a bloody cutter |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | And erm they offered me a green ginger you see |
| 17 | With the usual peasant hospitality they offered me a little saucer of quince jam and a thimbleful of raki as well as the glass of cistern water I requested . |
| 18 | At the garage where he bought petrol they offered him a complimentary sherry glass because he had bought more than thirty litres . |
| 19 | They offered us a handsome sum and we accepted . ’ |
| 20 | They thought him a genuine socialist who had tackled the capitalists — something the SPD had failed to do , and had hopes for a brighter future when the war was won . |
| 21 | The arguments were upsetting , but they gave them a burning desire to win — to prove officialdom wrong . |
| 22 | They were er anybody that knows about moleskin , and there very heavy material er and apart from being hard-wearing , I suppose they , in the winter time , they gave them a wee bit of warmth in their legs etcetera . |
| 23 | When Greg offered to drive her they gave him a similar warning . |
| 24 | He immediately queried the instructions and eventually they gave him a new course to steer . |
| 25 | They gave him a good room , and ‘ here therefore we settled , ’ he said , ‘ and did not spoil the present hour with thoughts of departure . ’ |
| 26 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 27 | Hubert Gaily liked churchyards , they gave him a curious sense of well-being . |
| 28 | He was willing , if they gave him a suitable hostage to ensure their good faith , to allow Berwick ten more days of siege , whereafter , if they were not relieved by the so-called Regent , they must surrender . |
| 29 | So they gave him a special job . ’ |
| 30 | Oh very much so , yes new devotion , size , erm , it , it in one or two of these erm they gave me a definite feel and to a , to a , it new I was trying to write |