Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them asked him a question . |
| 2 | I think talking to them helped me a lot to get over those first few months . |
| 3 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 4 | It was the same when her Mum got when it happened to her they got her a load of new clothes and she was trying them on and grandad said hey get in here now . |
| 5 | They made her a slave labourer . |
| 6 | They made her a cup of coffee . |
| 7 | Fate : you ca n't go straight , nobody ever really crashes out , they made me a criminal , nobody lives for ever … |
| 8 | ‘ They made me a general 'cause I 'm old . |
| 9 | They made it a rule never to pay , never to bribe , never to threaten to prosecute except in the case of dealers who could sell a young orang for several hundred pounds on the black market . |
| 10 | They made it a rule that she was never to be alone . |
| 11 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 12 | ‘ Is that why they made you a general ? ’ |
| 13 | Well he , he did n't really say a lot , er they asked him a question and er he , he just turned round and said er we hope , we hope it 's er a peaceful solution , that er virtually saying he hoped it did n't come to war , and Christine turned round and said ‘ yes we want a peaceful solution ’ . |
| 14 | They asked us a stream of questions , and laughed and chattered about themselves and their children . |
| 15 | They asked you a question to trap you |
| 16 | Now if you think you have been pleasant and helpful , you 've shared things with somebody , if they asked you a question you did n't bang them on the head , you helped , sign it now we come to the real sixty thousand point question , are you ready for this ? |
| 17 | After I graduated from high school in 1984 I shaved my head and kept my hair short and they labelled me a skinhead . |
| 18 | When he first started to air his views on intensive farming methods they labelled him a crank and hoped he would go away . |
| 19 | Tip — I think the world of Tip junior and I did the father ; they helped me a lot — just did n't realize I 'd come all the way over from Ireland by boat and by train up to St Andrews to carry Arnold 's bag . |
| 20 | They charged you a fortune and left you with nothing but a hopelessly constricting grid . |
| 21 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 22 | They found him a teacher of clarity , whose lectures were the most enjoyable and most instructive which they heard during their training . |
| 23 | They found him a job as a Foreign Office translator . |
| 24 | They found 'er a place near 'er daughter in Kent somewhere . ’ |
| 25 | They changed them a lot . |
| 26 | They have something like 40 players and they are very competitive and very strong and they caused us a lot of problems . |
| 27 | They showed me a bedspace and Alex went off to find me a tracksuit . |
| 28 | Some of its relics are scrupulously cared for in the English Circle headquarters ; they showed me a pair of jockey scales , caricatures of riders clambering redfaced out of ditches , group paintings of the hunt moving off . |
| 29 | They showed us a spinette and asked if anyone could play the piano . |
| 30 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |