Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they agreed to let me play and I asked them where they wanted me . |
| 2 | So when Grandad 's uncle , Richard Tallentire , asked if they could bring Mother up , they agreed to let her go . |
| 3 | ‘ I tried to get a £1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans . |
| 4 | The crowd at Darlington 's home game bought a total of £150-worth of tickets for the prize draw , and organisers say the warm reception they received helped them endure the icy conditions . |
| 5 | They 'd seen it happen before to Gesner 's dancers , but not usually so early in the Season . |
| 6 | It was the first time they 'd heard him admit the Store was built by humans . |
| 7 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 8 | but they did let her go on too long ! |
| 9 | But erm they did let her know that she had n't got it instead of making her wait the four weeks or whatever it was |
| 10 | But Dave said Tesco 's ca n't do , what they did they did it at Weybridge , they said let us buy your sight you say where you wan na sight and then they and we will build what you |
| 11 | I was n't looking for a job because I had n't finished my training , but er a friend of mine has h her father is a G P in Loughton , and he erm was at a meeting with the senior partner of my practice , and they said do you know of anybody who 's interested in a partnership ? |
| 12 | Encourage the person to speak-when they stop or get stuck , allow them time to think and repeat back to them the last thing they said to help them find their flow . |
| 13 | ( 'They said to me in the shop , ’ she 'd said to Anna , ‘ they said did I want the one with a little man on or not . |
| 14 | They had made him wait . |
| 15 | Of course , they had to let him go . |
| 16 | They had had faith , they had seen Jesus perform miracles , they had seen him heal the sick , they had seen him give sight to the blind , they had seen some of the tremendous things that Jesus had done . |
| 17 | Callaghan had made a forced landing in a field , but they had seen him get out . |
| 18 | They had had faith , they had seen Jesus perform miracles , they had seen him heal the sick , they had seen him give sight to the blind , they had seen some of the tremendous things that Jesus had done . |
| 19 | Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep . |
| 20 | Someone said that they had heard him suggest that all guests should be breathalysed at the door , for Rush had the reputation locally for being a more than usually dedicated policeman . |
| 21 | and they had do you know how much er a really nice sort of six foot seven foot tree is ? |
| 22 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 23 | It would have been a different matter if they had let him write his own account of what he had found at the Foinmen . |
| 24 | How could you kiss someone properly when you knew they had let you sit there for hours waiting for them while they went off and had dinner with someone else ? |
| 25 | They decided they wanted to make me look unusual , to make me look ‘ spacey ’ , and so they cut it all off . ’ |
| 26 | They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so . |
| 27 | They were the first enemy troops he had ever seen and the sight of them had made him go pale . |