Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 2 | I wondered how many of them glanced down as they processed in their finery into the castle for tea with the Queen . |
| 3 | None of them looked up as they passed . |
| 4 | None of them looked up when she and Michael entered . |
| 5 | They announced yesterday that they have signed a letter of intent to merge under the name Comarco International Inc . |
| 6 | In ready response , his embrace grew masterful , and they clung together as he kissed her face and neck repeatedly , each time catching her lips with more desire and more breathless pleasure . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't heard how they got on but I saw Mick just before he went and he was very positive , ’ said Ronnie . |
| 8 | To Llaneilian to got to get it they got they got together and they got married and they had ten children . |
| 9 | I ca n't do that I tell you , I mean I do n't mind , do n't get me wrong it 's just that I was the last one back up and I got up there , still got a little bit of to do and they got more than they did |
| 10 | And then they got more if they worked |
| 11 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 12 | But er there was a time , they got so If you had carried it too green , erm you er it could catch fire . |
| 13 | They got there but they had to go in second gear look |
| 14 | But he do n't know what time they got there cos he do n't work in that warehouse . |
| 15 | a lovely cottage , thatched roof cottage they lived in and it had an apple tree in the front , and a pear tree down the back , and all fruit trees . |
| 16 | It was not until they levelled out that she thought again about the possibility of living to a ripe old age . |
| 17 | Perhaps they succeeded better than they deserved . |
| 18 | That 's what I used to do with Marie — look for food they chucked away cos it was bashed up and that . |
| 19 | They attacked only where they could do so with overwhelmingly superior numbers ; in danger they disbanded . |
| 20 | At eight I had my first migraine ( I could not please her , I might as well join her ; they stopped soon after I left home ) , and I started to get rapidly and relentlessly short-sighted . |
| 21 | They moved in when they outgrew a caravan on the site . |
| 22 | It was only as they drew nearer that he began to make out that it was the concrete skeleton of an unfinished three-storey duplex , its half-built walls , pillars and floors rising out of a sea of mud . |
| 23 | They waded across till they reached a vantage point fifty metres short of the closest tentacle . |
| 24 | The effects of Esther 's stroke were not obvious at first , which made the doctors wonder if she had suffered a second stroke when they found later that she had a very severe left hemiplegia . |
| 25 | He was a young er man er who was just er a young boy , he was promoting records and trying to get into the business and , and er he remembered me well , and when they found out that I was n't easy to , to reach , no-one knew where I was , he was able to track me down and when he told me that er I had this big hit record , I thought it was someone playing a joke on me , because here in America , they have a television show called The Blue Bird , where they play jokes on people and , and tell them things , and then they videotape you and then there 's a funny reaction that this is a big television show . |
| 26 | And er then of course when I got better It hit me all on the head and that well Then er when I went back to school they found out as I could n't see the board properly . |
| 27 | No cos they bent round and we had a tie , we did but it was only a little bannister you know , we tried it |
| 28 | Well they phoned back and they said , can you tell your husband to take his car to National Tyres er , that insurance has sent him , and could they give him an invoice for the insurance company . |
| 29 | Eventually they caught on and I think they enjoyed our banter . |
| 30 | If they did consent , and accepted the money — it was good pay for this area — they wandered off before he had half finished , not wanting to be classed as figures of fun like him . |