Example sentences of "and they [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 2 | When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday . |
| 3 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 4 | If it 's s something like that and they tell me the amount of furniture and if two thirds of the van will be filled with big stuff , and then they tell me there 'll be half a dozen boxes , I assume there 'll be at least four times that number of boxes , and if it 's still going to go on , we 'll do it . |
| 5 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 6 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 7 | ‘ And they bring us the tourain . ’ |
| 8 | They sought no patent ; they ordered him to give information freely to their customers ; and they denied him the reward to which he believed he was entitled under the terms of his contract . |
| 9 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 10 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 11 | the only reason that police get away with drink driving is cos half the buggers are Masons and they give them the old funny hand shake and its oh on your way sir |
| 12 | And I mean the nurses and everybody , the doctors were really great , and they give us the best of treatment there , and I do n't think you 'll speak to anybody that was in the hospital that 'll say anything differently , they were really great . |
| 13 | Yeah under question things and they give you the answers in blue . |
| 14 | Good grief it must cost them a fortune to erm you know , pay for all these then , so they give you the Walkman to , while you 're doing this and they give you the batteries , tt |
| 15 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 16 | My husband and the boys cleared a path through the undergrowth when we first came here , and they called it the Burma Road . ’ |
| 17 | You see and they called it the , the church of Saint Constantine , and it shifted from here and they built one down at the and then they shifted from the to the present site in about seventeen forty . |
| 18 | And they called it the number one . |
| 19 | And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign . |
| 20 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |
| 21 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 22 | ‘ And they gave me the job . ’ |
| 23 | Farnham reached their second cup final of the season — and they did it the hard way when they met Cranleigh in the semi-finals of the Class Elite Cup at the Memorial Ground on Saturday . |
| 24 | They are usually organised by well-established foundations ( the Arvon Foundation , for example ) and they offer you the opportunity of working with and learning from well-known writers . |
| 25 | Our Lady was seen by many people , and they call it the shrine of Our Lady of Carns . |
| 26 | The car of the future and they call it the ’ Urbanizer . ’ |
| 27 | It used to be the south east midlands , now it 's classed as the south midlands but Bedford , twenty one miles along the road there , and they call it the south . |
| 28 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |