Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . ’ |
2 | At a secondhand shop they bought him a pair of rather tight jeans and also acquired a metal detector , opening up a whole range of possibilities . |
3 | ‘ At the station they showed me the machine with an old mouthpiece and said I would have to blow into that . |
4 | On another occasion they brought us a bowl of cherries . |
5 | 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 |
6 | Behind his back they called him a " Jaune " — a " yellow " with its unmistakable implication of cowardice ; if feeling more tactful they called him an " Annamite " — but was n't that only in truth a man of China 's ancient colony , the " Pacified South " ? |
7 | On the second day they gave her a rubber ball attached on a long elastic thread to a wooden bat . |
8 | Clatting the neeps and in Aberdeen they called them yowing And y We had your clatt as the yow they called it the hoe , the yow They cleared the Did that to the drill . |
9 | When you went to the Ideal Home Exhibition they gave you a hot sausage on a stick to eat — with pickle , not just a picture of one to look at . |
10 | At the garage where he bought petrol they offered him a complimentary sherry glass because he had bought more than thirty litres . |
11 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
12 | Two of our greatest fans were the 1968 West Indian Cricket team and the Duke Ellington Orchestra they gave us a standsing ovation . |
13 | That was the reason they named it the Deathbed Room . |
14 | Ah , in the end they fined him a lot of money , and they had him ca n't stop the public , you ca n't do that you ca n't . |
15 | the , the treat was at the end they gave them a very er , an opportunity of having a very strong drink |
16 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
17 | and this year they brought me the wireless and cassette |
18 | paid but if you had a complete attendance they gave you the money back for your self which was quite er a good thing in these days when a a tanner was a tanner . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | And the idea they gave him the Sammy Davis Jr Award just infuriates me . |
21 | To his surprise they offered him a job as music editor . |
22 | But if you remember the last time they sent us a parcel er |
23 | In fact they offered him a very large amount of money . |