Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them poked him with sticks to see if he really was a savage and threw books shouting , ‘ Build us a tower . |
| 2 | One of them ignored everyone including Mrs Black and just filed her nails and stared out of the window . |
| 3 | The sight of them filled him with pride . |
| 4 | Some of the crowd were pleased when they heard this , but most of them watched me in silence . |
| 5 | ‘ One or two of them taunted her about Grianan , but she always responded fiercely , ’ says Nuala . |
| 6 | In fact , I think quite a lot of them took it to heart . |
| 7 | They flung themselves at sailors in a bid for immortality . |
| 8 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 9 | They got them in Woolworths . |
| 10 | ‘ They got him to hospital , but then he had a second attack . |
| 11 | Cos whoever it was they got me in trouble . |
| 12 | we , we have n't got one now , they got one in Germany , they got one in France I in |
| 13 | we , we have n't got one now , they got one in Germany , they got one in France I in |
| 14 | Luckily the bus itself was delayed , and so they got themselves on board . |
| 15 | Hereford were due a break as well and sure enough , they got it against Gillingham at Edgar Street . |
| 16 | But if surfers could no longer make those connections through space , they made them through time . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | They asked me for £400,000 each . |
| 19 | Whether they get the computer software , dolls and musical instruments they asked him for remains to be seen . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And they , they asked us about mines in the area and we said mines |
| 22 | Then they asked us for lunch . |
| 23 | The Monastery of Saint James had been quite destroyed , and they passed it without halting . |
| 24 | Instead of transferring the ball from defence to attack with the trajectory of a mortar shell , they passed it to feet , and were even allowed to run with it . |
| 25 | Er it 's er it 's a ex W D lens , after wartime they sold these things they sold them in catalogues and I sent of for this one , and it 's about a stone and a half in weight . |
| 26 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal dismissed an Inland Revenue challenge to a High Court ruling that £75,000 paid to England and Derby County goalkeeper Peter Shilton by Nottingham Forest when they sold him to Southampton in 1982 should be treated as a ‘ golden handshake ’ . |
| 28 | United will be getting around three hundred thousand pounds of that … they sold him to Stoke on the proviso of a share of any future deals — bingo ! |
| 29 | The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet ! |
| 30 | 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 . |