Example sentences of "and they [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 2 | When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday . |
| 3 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even more than most movie men the comedians were men of the people and they sensed what the masses wanted . |
| 6 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | The first dance band at the Show Room was made up of people in the dale and they called themselves the Arcadians . |
| 11 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 12 | My husband and the boys cleared a path through the undergrowth when we first came here , and they called it the Burma Road . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And they called it the number one . |
| 15 | And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign . |
| 16 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |
| 17 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 18 | ‘ And they gave me the job . ’ |
| 19 | Farnham reached their second cup final of the season — and they did it the hard way when they met Cranleigh in the semi-finals of the Class Elite Cup at the Memorial Ground on Saturday . |
| 20 | And they closed one the other week that 's flooded now |
| 21 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |