Example sentences of "and they [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
2 | She opened her window and screamed and erm , of course the neighbours come but they was gone and they took it all they 're gold she had it on in bed , pulled it over husband neck , . |
3 | Rovers were bubbling and they made it two on 15 minutes . |
4 | And they made it shorter for that reason . |
5 | And they made it clear that I was extremely fortunate to be doing the job I do . |
6 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
7 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
8 | ‘ And they told him this here cow run away . |
9 | On Jerba I had made it clear that I was not in the market for anything and they left me alone . |
10 | But we made our point and they left us alone after that . ’ |
11 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
12 | The route was wet , holds had to be dug out and they thought it Severe — the same grade Hargreaves and MacPhee had given their ascent of Deer Bield Crack ( one of the Lakeland 's hardest climbs at that time ) the previous year . |
13 | And they brought them flick-knife combs . |
14 | And they paid me sixteen and six an hour for the tractor and a mower and myself . |
15 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |
16 | I paid hundred and twenty quid on top of this for electric , and they billed me seventy odd ! |
17 | And Ford 's put up a lot of the money and so they wanted their cut from the publicity , and they gave me another award , and their manager in Brighton came to present it . |
18 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
19 | Er we 've got a little few earmarked funds left over like for instance , Theakston 's Brewery gave us the barrels and they gave us two and a half thousand pounds . |
20 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
21 | ‘ It did n't cause us any problems , and they gave us 1,200 lempiras ( $300 ) . |
22 | ‘ They 're cheaper to run and they gave us more flexibility on positioning , ’ Wren adds . |
23 | I gave them the meat of the dead animal , and they gave us more food and water . |
24 | For instance , they gave us just two power lines per side on a huge concert stage , and just one spotlight , and that was all the lights they gave us , and they gave us half the PA . |
25 | That er Tess bought and they did it all up . |
26 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
27 | Cos I nearly died I got on bus other day and they charged me eighty five pence I looked at me clock and it were twenty past nine . |
28 | I read them , furtively , like boys do pornography , and they showed me another world . |
29 | ‘ They came out to our meetings to help us , to encourage us , and they helped us present our case to the Government . |
30 | And they bought it last summer and they 've had trouble ever since ! |