Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have longed for quiet and solitude , for space to shed their tears in private , or even to vent their anger , but none of them showed it in public . |
| 2 | He turned to face her then , his eyes intent as they met hers for one long minute , and she had the strangest feeling that he was trying to look inside her soul . |
| 3 | Yes and er I er they got me on that and I 'd er seen a bit on it before hand one way or another , but I went to a place and , and asked them if I could er see and er they showed me and explained it , the er the way to er . |
| 4 | They got me in 1979 when Eamonn Andrews hosted the show . |
| 5 | With some , like Tony Jacklin or Susan Hampshire , it is perfectly obvious they got it through hard work in their particular calling . |
| 6 | They had you by your short and curlies the minute they got you into that uniform . ’ |
| 7 | But they got us into this mess , it 's up to them to get us out of it . |
| 8 | But even saying that , if they doubled it to two hundred pounds , it 's a lot of years before we reach four thousand pounds . |
| 9 | they sold it and somebody bought and er they made it into private er |
| 10 | They asked me for more money . |
| 11 | Also they asked him about some people rating him better than Best . |
| 12 | They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 . |
| 13 | No , the council 's took it over , they sold it to this bloke . |
| 14 | THE Roux brothers ' former restaurant in Old Bailey , renamed Le Sous Sol after they sold it in 1989 , is in administrative receivership . |
| 15 | Cos they had the , the expensive yarns and they produced them on these machines with very little waste . |
| 16 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 17 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 18 | They helped me in many ways but there was something sick in my mind . |
| 19 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 20 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 21 | When they killed Chico , they transformed us into thousands of Chicos . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I have three or four : two black Strats , a Les Paul Junior with a neck-through-body — really heavy guitar , sustains really well — a Flying V that they built me with one pickup — neck-through-body also — and a regular Flying V. ’ |
| 23 | About thirty nine quid they charged me for three . |
| 24 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 25 | So I er carried on with what they found me with this in the brew house and then er where did I go from there ? |
| 26 | It was what , I used today , they used it in all hospitals . |
| 27 | Then they tried it with various kinds of depression , even psychoses . |
| 28 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 29 | They caught them within 5 days . |
| 30 | You see in consecrated ground so they buried her in this bit of wheat land at the Muckle Water there . |