Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boots had platform soles and they cost him more than his weekly wages at the warehouse . |
| 2 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 3 | She opened her window and screamed and erm , of course the neighbours come but they was gone and they took it all they 're gold she had it on in bed , pulled it over husband neck , . |
| 4 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 5 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 6 | ‘ And they told him this here cow run away . |
| 7 | we 're still involved , and they tell me that life on a fire station is still very pleasant so I 'm sure it must be . |
| 8 | But if you did and said can you sell me some erm emulsion paint , which is non-drip , and they sell you some matt paint , which drips , then clearly they 've sold you something which was not fit for the purpose that you had specified . |
| 9 | Adolescents have no defence like that to cut off experience , they have wide-open eyes , and they take it all on . |
| 10 | and they cut it all that |
| 11 | and they come round and they bring them all out to the front |
| 12 | But the only thing what , I , I mean , I got through , it says hi you 've got through to Ross King 's er , blah , we 're going to repeat those competition questions for you , and they repeat it all to you , and they , is your answer A bla B C and then , it 's please speak after the tone , beep and then you say your thing and then , now would you like to leave your name and number |
| 13 | There are fertilisers gone down the river and they kill them all off . |
| 14 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 15 | People slag them 'cos they ca n't play properly and they get it all wrong . |
| 16 | All their special , you know , relics and that and they put them all in the cellars so when it was bombed , all the precio all the treasures and that were kept . |
| 17 | And they give me all the equipment I need . |
| 18 | Worked out less than , I do n't know and they give us all the posters and everything , so weekend I 'm gon na send away for another seventy |
| 19 | And they give you all the other information you need . |
| 20 | And Ford 's put up a lot of the money and so they wanted their cut from the publicity , and they gave me another award , and their manager in Brighton came to present it . |
| 21 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 22 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
| 23 | ‘ They 're cheaper to run and they gave us more flexibility on positioning , ’ Wren adds . |
| 24 | I gave them the meat of the dead animal , and they gave us more food and water . |
| 25 | For instance , they gave us just two power lines per side on a huge concert stage , and just one spotlight , and that was all the lights they gave us , and they gave us half the PA . |
| 26 | That er Tess bought and they did it all up . |
| 27 | ‘ And they do him some . |
| 28 | They know when to knock it to the corners , when to play it short , when to feed the strikers and they do it all with the highest quality . |
| 29 | And they buy it all in , there was no pay in it . |
| 30 | I read them , furtively , like boys do pornography , and they showed me another world . |