Example sentences of "they [vb base] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but not only that I mean , if they get paid double time everywhere else why should we be any bloody different ? |
| 2 | All the previously unbeaten sides lost , leaving only SCUM unbeaten ( but they ve had easy games except for the home game to newcastle which was 1–1 ) . |
| 3 | And what they 've done is they 've asked various volunteers , mugs , call them what you will , to be er recorded while they are carrying their out their normal duties . |
| 4 | They 've invited other representatives , including some from the Borough Council : and if they were women they could n't have gone . |
| 5 | They 've made hectic visits to Brussels registering your interests and meeting with those with greatest influence in the E C institutions . |
| 6 | So they 've made cheap labour . |
| 7 | The performers are a Czech band called Czecho-Mor … and they 've become regular visitors . |
| 8 | Despite the problems , the organisers say they 're confident they 've gathered valuable information about how to plan for potential emergencies . |
| 9 | Their victim says she 's delighted that they 've received long sentences . |
| 10 | How 're yuh gon na keep'em loyal to proprietary systems after they 've seen generic PCs is today 's equivalent . |
| 11 | Other people have got out and they 've done similar things to her . |
| 12 | I mean is it like how they 've done various singles in the past , Cliff Richard and ‘ Summer Holiday ’ , you know putting a little voice on top , a little snippet . |
| 13 | ‘ But they 've done wicked things . ’ |
| 14 | Not people that could that can defend themselves that can what 's the name of it if they could Well they 've broken old people 's doors in and took their money and and hit them and whatsername . |
| 15 | cos they 've developed urban job . |
| 16 | ‘ We keep meeting these people who travel down to Cornwall and say they 've surfed big breaks , but it 's all false . |
| 17 | But I guess they have got something to point to if they 've built good roads and railways and so on . " |
| 18 | Well I do n't know because they 've put new flues and everything on these fires . |
| 19 | I suppose they 're all alike but they 've put different ones on the outside . |
| 20 | Reporters have tried smack , they 've spent voluntary weeks in jail or among lepers , on the same principle that Orwell worked in Paris as a plongeur . |
| 21 | One year they 've got long hair and spend their spare time reading Marx , the next they 're shorn like sheep and as conservative as hell . |
| 22 | They 've got long beaks like that . |
| 23 | . There 's quite a service buses plus they 've got mini buses running around all over the shop as well so . |
| 24 | And , and , you know , they 've got paid youth officer 's working in Harlow , now they are , there are , they 're over they 're over stretched it 's true and , but we , I mean what were doing here is actually supplementing there service and were not meeting all , we would n't of erm meeting all the demands , but the important thing I think is that were continuing to erm , you know , were trying to do something about it , and one of the things that were trying to do as officer 's in the Local Government Unit is work with Leisure Services and get them to put more resources into doing things for young people . |
| 25 | no they 've got ordinary ones here but I mean these , are a whole lot expensive than they were at W Smith 's , yes , erm I just do n't believe this price no I suppose they 're three for one fifty nine , but that 's the size I got |
| 26 | They 've got other things to think about . ’ |
| 27 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |
| 28 | I 'm not saying they 're not willing , but they 've got other drags on them . |
| 29 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 30 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |