Example sentences of "[vb past] they [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I rang up to say I were coming I asked them did they want Easter eggs or did they want fa er a box of chocolates or bars of chocolate we |
| 2 | it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really . |
| 3 | The trainer explained : ‘ Three of them , Jeff Newton , Mick Dews and Barry Dixon , had a horse with me called The White Lion , who won a seller and I told them to let it go . |
| 4 | Sally-Anne closed her eyes , opened them to see him lift his hands to cover his face , his head bent , shoulders bowed , his world in ruins about him . |
| 5 | I 've gone to the nuns and begged them to let me have a child , but they say ‘ You are a prostitute . |
| 6 | Her parents had sent her to the convent , and she begged them to let her become a Catholic after she 'd been there only a year . |
| 7 | She 'd reverted to her glasses because she thought they made her look older and more respectable , somehow , the way people wanted a doctor to look . |
| 8 | If you were ill , why did they make you go away ? ’ |
| 9 | Why the 'ell did they let it happen ! |
| 10 | How did they did they begin in sort of in ones or twos ? |
| 11 | Did they did they join the tree |
| 12 | Onlookers said they heard him admit that he ‘ had a drink ’ the previous night . |
| 13 | but it , he paid back five quid well Geoffrey said in reality it must of been about twenty quid that kid had taken but er he said they made him pay back five pounds , so at least they |
| 14 | I took that part to mean about trust between him and the board , ie he trusted them to let him have the final say etc etc . |