Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They have something like 40 players and they are very competitive and very strong and they caused us a lot of problems .
2 and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday
3 So we asked council if they could get us a place and they offered us a flat at first over the other side , I do n't know what walk it was on , and they says , You can stay there until we get an house for you .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day .
6 When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday .
7 Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working .
8 My second Oscar was entirely due to Morecambe and Wise and they sent me a telegram to prove it : ‘ Stick with us and we 'll get you a third ’ , I think it was .
9 and they sent me a box back .
10 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 .
11 Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use .
12 And they sold me The Last Boy Scout .
13 They sought no patent ; they ordered him to give information freely to their customers ; and they denied him the reward to which he believed he was entitled under the terms of his contract .
14 ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time .
15 I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking
16 After I graduated from high school in 1984 I shaved my head and kept my hair short and they labelled me a skinhead .
17 There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now .
18 And they called me an N B man , a North British Railway man .
19 My husband and the boys cleared a path through the undergrowth when we first came here , and they called it the Burma Road . ’
20 You see and they called it the , the church of Saint Constantine , and it shifted from here and they built one down at the and then they shifted from the to the present site in about seventeen forty .
21 And they called it the number one .
22 They dressed and lit him against his character — softening where they ought to have emphasised the toughness — and they gave him a part with no verbal bite and no guts but even so it was not a bad first break for the boy from the snooker halls of Port Talbot .
23 ‘ Did she come through here ? ’ he demanded of the astonished-looking Chinese family at one of the restaurant 's six plain tables , and they gave him a look of complete incomprehension .
24 And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign .
25 They could have told you what they meant by them and they gave them a currency in terms of their own conduct .
26 a sociality room whatever , whatever they call it and er , and they gave them a good do really
27 But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury .
28 So I got the tyre off , and I got the spare on , and put the nuts on , and at the end of it , I gave a bow , and they gave me a round of applause .
29 I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer .
30 and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday
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