Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear they 've got a problem to worry at there , but details I do n't know . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I hear they 've got a camera in the stumps ’ |
| 3 | Oh yes , well you see they 've got the names |
| 4 | Police have issued a photofit of man they say stabbed a teenager several times in an unprovoked attack . |
| 5 | When the Conservatives returned to power in 1979 they further revised the PES system . |
| 6 | They further confused the tone of a piece that had about it the whiff of 1970s radical agitprop . |
| 7 | They dub investigated the remains of the huge tureens of soup . |
| 8 | Nottinghamshire police have released a recording of a girl they believed called the Kingsmill Hospital at Sutton in Ashfield claiming she 'd had a baby . |
| 9 | Det Chief Insp George Brown , who is leading the murder hunt , said yesterday that members of the public had volunteered more than 300 names of people they believed matched the descriptions of the two attackers . |
| 10 | And brought the coal cutter in and they they put brought the pans and The shaker pans they used to wear belts then , for shaker pans you see ? |
| 11 | London Irish thought they 'd scored a try here … the ref tho rightly gave a knock on … and the cherry and whites rolled on to take the lead with a penalty from Martin Roberts … another penalty apiece made it six three to Gloucester at half-time … but they deserved more … the forwards were fired up but so too was the exiles defence which took a fair old hammering … the turning point came at the start of the second half when referee David Matthews awarded Gloucester a penalty try … |
| 12 | Bluebeard had been a private joke — an exclamation she had been unable to stifle as they 'd rounded the cliff at the head of the valley and she had got her first glimpse of the imposing turreted Castell Rocamar . |
| 13 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 14 | They 'd planned a trip to Warwick Castle , but she could n't get the time off . |
| 15 | She 'd thought a lot about this since they 'd planned the trip . |
| 16 | They 'd caused no end of problems for the nomes . |
| 17 | They 'd completed the tour of his spacious offices on the waterfront at Msida . |
| 18 | They 'd split up and about a year later , they 'd formed The Box and wanted to get a record out , and that 's how it started in January ‘ 83 . |
| 19 | In the small grease-laden kitchen the dishes they 'd eaten a meal off were in the sink . |
| 20 | Rory talked fast and funnily , told them of the rat they 'd found in the caravan when they 'd come to it , recounted the horrors of a little restaurant in Buncrana where they 'd eaten the night before , and laughed at the way he and Mallachy had sailed past the beach a thousand times before deciding to boldly ask them for a drink . |
| 21 | Doubtful if he ever dented a heart ; more than likely he gave quite a number of hearts a new lift after they 'd imagined the ball was over for them . |
| 22 | Her mouth was a red gash in her powdered face and when in Act Two she told her husband that the degenerate Martin had never loved her , never ever , even though they 'd conducted an affair , real tears trickled from her tragic eyes . |
| 23 | We ran this kind of course by asking the teachers at the beginning of the course to select some device they 'd like to make , that they 'd seen the circuit of in a in a school magazine school science review magazine , and then build that . |
| 24 | They 'd seen the film that summer at Abbotsfield . |
| 25 | It was only two o'clock , they 'd seen the parade many times before , and Mike 's match would n't start before 4.15 . |
| 26 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 27 | He 'd heard about St Manicus : they 'd done a project on him at school . |
| 28 | Yeah they 'd done the buffet and it was all it was in blue red blue and white . |
| 29 | I did n't think too much about this at the time , although I knew they usually only had money for their ‘ little pleasures ’ after they 'd done the washing and pawned it . |
| 30 | But when I got back to work the people that was in the observation post on the factory , they saw this aircraft , it came down low over the King George 's playing fields and they could see the markings on it and they 'd sounded the alarm but but course the aircraft went straight over . |