Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah because what they did they they 've done it a few a times though different people , look and see how far it is before it 's a blind spot . |
| 2 | They 'd heard her a little at rehearsal , but not properly , not consistently , and not without interruption and background noise . |
| 3 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 4 | And they 've assigned me a prolific blighter ( 'lific blighter ) — |
| 5 | They 've made it a , a , a sort of through cut there , which is now going to allow people to cross over erm , it 's , it 's going to make erm , two points of pedestrian access shown on the north boundary at the site , will create new rights of way and will become short cuts for pedestrians and especially children . |
| 6 | My Uncle Stan and Aunt Alice are very good to me and more than good to Carrie , they 've given her a start in life she would never have had here . |
| 7 | ‘ They 've given me a roomette or some such , but I take this thing seriously . |
| 8 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
| 9 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've given me a lot of furniture and other things that have been passed down through the generations . |
| 11 | Now she came away thinking I 've got this secondhand car and they 've given me a warranty . |
| 12 | They 've given him a price just for painting the walls . |
| 13 | As John Major said , they 've given us a bloody nose . |
| 14 | They 've given us a German prisoner of war again . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah they 've charged me a fiver 's fucking commission on that . |
| 16 | I add them up yesterday and said what 's it , what do I do , I 've not come to , now they 've sent me a temporary one . |
| 17 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 18 | Well they 've sent you a letter from hospital . |
| 19 | Now instead they 've offered him a new one year contract . |
| 20 | They 've brought you a farewell present but they think it 's just too big . |
| 21 | An example of that would be if you bought a new pocket calculator and then find it wo n't work then the legal position is the shop have broken their contract with you , because they 've sold you a pocket calculator which is not of merchantable quality , and you should be entitled to money back in a case like that . |
| 22 | They 've sponsored us a consultancy , |
| 23 | Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility . |
| 24 | and er , they 've found me a very , very nice residential home |
| 25 | They 've had it a bit too easy I think . |
| 26 | Returning Edward the proofs of his book , Helen commented : ‘ This has indeed been a fair spring for us , though they had made it a winter . |
| 27 | Before either of them could say a word , he turned and began to speak as though they had asked him a question . |
| 28 | They had given her a list . |
| 29 | When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run . |
| 30 | But to teach the man a lesson they had given him a supply of twigs that were old and weak ; poor twigs for making brooms with . |