Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sight of them filled him with pride . |
| 2 | Some of the crowd were pleased when they heard this , but most of them watched me in silence . |
| 3 | In fact , I think quite a lot of them took it to heart . |
| 4 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 5 | ‘ They got him to hospital , but then he had a second attack . |
| 6 | Cos whoever it was they got me in trouble . |
| 7 | But if surfers could no longer make those connections through space , they made them through time . |
| 8 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century , however , those who conducted the research did not really believe that their subjects would tell them the truth reliably if they asked them for information directly , and so they drew inferences about people 's ideas , religious beliefs , political commitments and so on from the type of literature they had on their shelf or the pictures they had on their walls . |
| 10 | Then they asked us for lunch . |
| 11 | The Monastery of Saint James had been quite destroyed , and they passed it without halting . |
| 12 | The point in both appeals was whether the jury should have been allowed to hear the tape recording of the appellant 's interview with the police when they requested it after retirement , it not having been played to them during the course of the trial . |
| 13 | and they get that one back in Thursday and they read it to teacher , so it 's two a week and up till |
| 14 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 15 | They avoided them by touch , for here there was no glimmer of light . |
| 16 | Cos the mortgages and that but there 's a lot of them , and kids causing it , and Christmas was coming well you know we just , that 's when they helped us at Christmas was really fantastic yes , true I never thought anything really out of this world how the how the people helped We got toys and everything for the kids ' Christmas , everything you could think of . |
| 17 | They overtook us with science , and [ sound of explosion ] Islam … [ burst of gunfire and sound lost ] . |
| 18 | They never actually moved in and they promised it to Daddy . |
| 19 | They charged me with possession of cannabis . |
| 20 | The agreement included a feature whereby all French banks agreed among themselves to bill their French trader customers affiliated to the payment system of Eurocheque a commission equivalent to that which they charged them on payment effected by holders of their credit or debit cards . |
| 21 | I just recall that I got a bit of a shock when I heard they found him on MOD property . |
| 22 | On another occasion he described how he had ‘ once spent several hours on a bicycle with a friend in a serious attempt to discover the real spot but the search ended in failure though tourists assure me positively that they found it without difficulty ’ . |
| 23 | Room echo back then was virtually unheard of in recording , although they used it in motion pictures for sound effects . ’ |
| 24 | and erm and then they tried me on painting . |
| 25 | And then they and took this poor old wife and they beat her to death with the flails . |
| 26 | They beat they beat him to death . |
| 27 | The solo climber was in a bad way , and they invited him to rope up with them . |
| 28 | They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt . |
| 29 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 30 | ‘ They phoned me at home on a Friday evening and that night I went out to celebrate , ’ she said . |