Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they book me a flight out of Gatwick , like the charters do , I just say I 'm not going on that one , get me Luton , change the ticket , get me Manchester , I do n't care , I 'm not going from Gatwick . |
| 2 | ‘ And they bring us the tourain . ’ |
| 3 | You know you know some people they lose them a bit young do n't they . |
| 4 | ‘ If we comb through our stories and one encounters with wild whales and dolphins , we find that they seem to hang together along a shining thread — that whales and dolphins know what they are doing , that their actions are purposeful , and stunningly specific to the occasion , that they intend us no harm , that they are aware . |
| 5 | My mum and dad deny that they make them a brew , but when I get home there 's usually 20 dirty cups outside the door . ’ |
| 6 | When combined , they make you a force to be avoided . |
| 7 | There is a history of heart disease in her family so Doc D gets her cholesterol checked every now and then and they make it a policy not to keep cheese in the house . |
| 8 | She can afford it , and they fit you a treat . |
| 9 | The three answering apparitions make him feel safer with their answers of … and yet he decides to kill Macduff for safe measure but as Macduff has fled he decides to kill everyone linked with Macduff though they pose him no threat . |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , they send me the stuff before it 's published and I try to proof read it as well as I can . |
| 11 | They send them a post card through and I thought it was about February , but Win reckons it 's the end of March their booster time . |
| 12 | and you send it off and they send you a booklet where you pick a holiday and this go-kart worth a thousand pound on the so they 're having to do that you see . |
| 13 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 14 | I do n't know how they can make mistakes like that they send you a letter one minute and then on your rent book 's different . |
| 15 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 16 | And then , when they send you the bill then will they just , you wo n't get so much interest on it ? |
| 17 | But that 's it the system is n't but they send us a donation which they 'd had for appearing on B B C or something . |
| 18 | They cost us a fortune ! |
| 19 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 20 | Or even even , if they show you a receipt , you do n't know if it 's stolen or not . |
| 21 | If they show you a picture , you 've got a better chance . |
| 22 | Half-nine , it , it was erm , they show you a family that , it were n't , it 's not no , it 's not , not the set up thing , the thing where they 've gone into the house with cameras and the people like , |
| 23 | What happened was there was a burglar and er they went downstairs and they him over the head and then they put him a chair and they got the and he goes , what shall we , what shall we wrap him up in ? |
| 24 | Clearly , you may also be able to persuade someone to lend you money if you have power of some sort — if they owe you a favour or if you are their boss or if you are in a position of some authority for example . |
| 25 | Yeah , it 's pretty good but erm the older ones think they run it a bit ! |
| 26 | They accompany her every entrance . |
| 27 | They lend her the viability of shared experience , giving her the confidence to shrug her shoulders when she feels like it . |
| 28 | Well they give me a tenner for hoovering it out . |
| 29 | ‘ Every time they give me a date , I get ready to go in , but then they call to say there is no room , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Oh everything , they give me a stack of batteries , they told me to change the batteries after every three tapes |