Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 3 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 4 | Yeah , yeah they mentioned you the other day at Eddy just said to him you know , |
| 5 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 6 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |
| 7 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 10 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 15 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 , |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | to me that 's where they took her the first time , they did n't take her right on the the roads , you know , the first time she 'd |
| 20 | They offered him the highest position in the land , second only to that traitor , if he would forsake me ! |
| 21 | Farnham reached their second cup final of the season — and they did it the hard way when they met Cranleigh in the semi-finals of the Class Elite Cup at the Memorial Ground on Saturday . |
| 22 | They voted me the biggest flirt and they actually printed that under my picture in the school yearbook . |
| 23 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 24 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |
| 25 | And do you believe it , they wanted it the next day . |