Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm he did n't think they had any bilingual signs and they did n't have they were n't using their Portakabins so they scrapped them all last year sold them off . |
| 2 | So they dissected them all with a fine-tooth comb getting mixed metaphors . |
| 3 | and we will give you a er , two addresses , and so they gave me two addresses and and to reach people at I 've done the job quite well . |
| 4 | So they gave me minute instructions ( enclosed , along with the much-travelled draft , in the foreign-desk-clerk 's handwriting ) about what you should say to them if you can be persuaded to try them again . |
| 5 | No , I think it 's just I think they plan well according er to John yesterday they planned it this way . |
| 6 | When it came to new furnishings , people usually they found it difficult to say why apart from ‘ I got it because I liked it ’ , or ‘ I got it because it was cheap ’ . |
| 7 | What they could n't read about , they guessed , and very often they got it wrong . |
| 8 | The idea is that you 're aware of people around you , but I was particularly sensitive to the vibrations and eventually they drove me mad . ’ |
| 9 | And it was surprising how frequently they found it necessary to motor down to Edmonton or Calgary . |
| 10 | And mis the the constructors here they loaned us different equipment and we worked from Monday to Friday getting the things ready we worked all day Saturday doing the show , and we worked all day Sunday clearing the field ! |
| 11 | Then they attacked us one by one with electric sticks while our hands were handcuffed behind our backs . |
| 12 | Her 16-year-old brother was arrested and tortured ( they removed the skin from his face and the soles of his feet ) ; then they burnt him alive in the village square . |
| 13 | you see then they pulled them all down and built the ice rink there . |
| 14 | They had declared at his accession , they had repeated often since , that they desired him to reign upon the selfsame terms as his predecessors ; and yet they made him aware , whenever it was needful to ask for a grant of money , that in fact he stood upon ground subtly changed , and must ask as a favour what had been Richard 's unquestioned right . |
| 15 | There 's only that bus stop and then it turns down you yet they charged me thirty five pence and that were n't even half past three . |
| 16 | As the family grew up the wife could take a less active part in the farm work especially when the son left school but occasionally they found it difficult to settle back into a domestic routine . |