Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election . |
| 2 | One of them told me the changes they 've put now are so dramatic , there might as well have been a change of government . |
| 3 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 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 | They dogged him the length and breadth of the country , wherever the small troupe of players appeared . |
| 6 | But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Is he aware that they posed me the question , ’ Is anybody in the Government prepared to stand up and fight to defend the coal industry ? ’ |
| 9 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
| 10 | When I came out , they told me the court dates of when he was going to be adopted . |
| 11 | When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday . |
| 12 | ‘ They told me the regulators would n't allow it and that Glasgow housewives would n't be able to do it ’ , he recalls with a smile . |
| 13 | While I gratefully sipped my pint , they told me the story . |
| 14 | ‘ When they told me the body had been mutilated and burnt I did n't think it was Brian . |
| 15 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 16 | He did not feel happy when they told him the result . |
| 17 | Yes Chairman , of the hundred and sixty thousand plus cost , erm , part of the contribution by the major servicing committee , and I understand that they advised me the balance has been made from local contributions , and charitable sources . |
| 18 | When they assured him the deposits were in order , he assumed it was a payment due from a former employer . |
| 19 | They tagged him the Nabob Of Sob , the Prince Of Wails and the Cry Guy . |
| 20 | As they showed her the house , Rose seemed to enter completely into the terrible awareness of Moran now sitting in the car chair meditatively rotating his thumbs about one another . |
| 21 | All the girls helped her to get the fire going , spread the tablecloth , put out the cups and plates , laughing and whispering and bustling about as they showed her the places and secrets of the kitchen , the room that was now her room . |
| 22 | They showed him the boat . |
| 23 | when they showed me the ropes : |
| 24 | ‘ At the station they showed me the machine with an old mouthpiece and said I would have to blow into that . |
| 25 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 26 | we went in , you know , and that was the place an'all even the carpet that 's twelve hundred pound , cos they showed us the bill , you know er it 's been a it 's dirty and that but you know that wants , wants a good washing you know |
| 27 | thought he 'd cut and things like this and then they showed you the chap the next day and he was completely different ! |
| 28 | There was only one good bit in the film — when they showed you the lit–de bastard pissing up a wall . |
| 29 | then they taught me the copper |
| 30 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |