Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.

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1 She was clearly mentally disturbed , and the reason that I got in touch with the legal project was to see if there 's anything that could be done by them to start giving her some way of getting in touch , getting to solve her problem .
2 Here they got put it all out there .
3 They intend to give us some notion of what they are when they roll out the application programming interface in 90 days .
4 They intend to give us some notion of what they are when they roll out the API in 90 days .
5 Er and but others just feel they want to do it that way , other companies .
6 If a Black woman is on a visit , they tend to search her more , watch her more , because they believe Blacks are too bad .
7 See they 've offered me more money to stay at this one cos I 've got it running quite well
8 If they want to take it all away in the end and match me up with that slimy halfwit , why then take me up to the mountain and show me the world ?
9 Bannered ‘ Women Face the '90s ’ , the Time cover features a woman with a briefcase in one hand and a baby in the other -a symbol of those women who feel betrayed by feminism because , as the magazine says , they tried to have it all and now they 've just plain had it .
10 Small moans of protest sounded in her throat but they seemed to excite him more , because he growled with satisfaction , his lips branding hers with heat .
11 ‘ I think it would have been brilliant if they 'd given him more of a chance and if he 'd given a bit more .
12 They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers .
13 Erm it would have been better if they 'd given you some information to say , They all voted for at least one
14 I experienced a moment of complete terror in which my mind raced — I had been discovered after all ; it was obvious that I had a limp ; everyone could see it ; they 'd seen it all along and had chosen this moment to hit me with it , my weakest moment …
15 ‘ Well ? ’ said William , when they 'd seen it all and adjourned to the pub opposite the station , an old waiting room of a pub that had not yet been converted into a wine bar or a theme park and was consequently empty .
16 They thought he was a bit peculiar , maybe , but they 'd accepted him all the same .
17 I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this .
18 They 'd got it all planned behind his back .
19 He was , he said he 'd send us , once they 'd got it all sorted out he said he 'd send us a book , the book on it .
20 They 'd got it all worked out what we ought to eat — would you believe it ! ’
21 If the Government wo n't believe us when we tell them the truth , maybe they will now believe the people they paid to give them this report .
22 And er and of course that was interval and then er and they used to come and sit down and they used to show you another film .
23 The Labour Party , or its thinking wing , is polishing its credentials so remarkably that Mr Smith 's team will look quite different when they get to meet us all again in the polling booth .
24 They started to give him more advice .
25 Then they started again , they started to give her another they did , and the same thing happened .
26 Not since they started calling it another Wayne 's World .
27 At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes .
28 We were firing this damn thing , then they started banging us some , .
29 The result was two fragrances , which Laura liked equally , so they decided to introduce them both calling them , simply , Number 1 and Number 2 .
30 If they decide to emulate you this is fine , a great compliment .
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