Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He usually left this shop to the end because they rarely gave him an order and the road was one he hated . |
| 2 | No , they only had them the the er rescue operations , rescue men . |
| 3 | It , it was one of those chips and ju they just asked me a minute . |
| 4 | They just gave him a slap on the wrist then and that enabled him to go out and kill my husband . |
| 5 | ‘ They did n't pay me no wages , not real wages , they just gave me a bob now and again , and me board and lodgin' , and some clothes . |
| 6 | Yes , I know they just gave me a little walk on part . |
| 7 | I am sure they thought that if they just gave us a token punishment , then the whole thing would all be forgotten . |
| 8 | I thought they just called it a domestic |
| 9 | When , at the end of two hours , they finally showed him the document and he acknowledged what had happened , ‘ there was a sigh from the assembled people . ’ |
| 10 | But they always gave me the choice first and put me in a dilemma , though I did n't know the meaning of the word then . |
| 11 | They also renamed it The Enterprise , and it was the first of 27 engines built by the foundry in 25 years . |
| 12 | ‘ They also offered me a job at the end of it , but there were no strings attached to the scholarship . ’ |
| 13 | They also did it a few years ago with their then hottest act , Alexander O'Neal . |
| 14 | TBD gave me enough pens to make a significant impact on this year 's office stationery allocation ; they also gave me a useful laundry bag , as did Bertrams . |
| 15 | They also gave her a much valued safety-valve for an almost too active imagination . |
| 16 | We shall be leaving Peking for Sian at 11.30 this evening , and the comrades have given us a rousing send off with beautiful presents including a big embroidered tablecloth and napkins , and a beautiful framed picture made out of shells , with an inscription written on it specially for & I. They also gave us the enclosed photos , which give you an idea of what life is like here . |
| 17 | They also showed me the silver anklets for state elephants ( used until the 1930s ) and silver palanquins , used as recently as the 1950s . |
| 18 | I rather think that the RN instructors on my course must have suffered at the hands of the Customs on returning from a foreign tour as they really gave us a hard time . |
| 19 | ‘ They even gave me a little bed , ’ said Masklin . |
| 20 | They even gave him a Plate to carry it on — silver , that is — when they beat Tonga in a pulsating second-tier final which saw Gareth James power over for the winning try in extra time . |
| 21 | ‘ They simply left you no chance of thinking like a human being , ’ said the former torturer . |
| 22 | They simply gave me the means to share some sad , courageous and beautiful things . |
| 23 | They then sent him an invitation , ’ Mrs Hart said . |
| 24 | The warden and his wife , being owners of a Siamese cat , were not overjoyed to see Emily but they reluctantly fed her a saucer of milk , saying that she could stay for one night . |
| 25 | They never gave us a chance with Stephen . |
| 26 | They therefore offered us a ground-floor flat in a house that they owned . |
| 27 | And when they banned me from playing cricket for a month , they actually did me a favour . |
| 28 | They actually called me the green-eyed monster . |
| 29 | I think the wives found it to their benefit to get amongst other wives who were sharing the same problems you know , how to pay the bills , how to buy food , and I think they seemed to get organized pretty well , they certainly helped us a hell of a lot . |
| 30 | Most of the glasses probably contained hot milk or even worse , but they certainly gave me a thirst . |