Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
| 2 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 3 | But they 'd seen him the moment he saw them , so he kept on walking towards them . |
| 4 | If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back . |
| 5 | He wished they 'd left him the radio mast , so that he could at least listen to some music and pick up the news . |
| 6 | ’ There was even some guy in Minnesota or Detroit or somewhere who killed a load of people and they started to call them the Lost Boy Murders , but I did n't take too much notice of it all . |
| 7 | ‘ I have had no hassle from the other women but the prison guards at Risley were awful , they kept calling me the Duchess , ’ she says with a touch of nastiness . |
| 8 | They did give me the name of the hospital Salome was in and the taller one told me that the accident had happened ‘ just off the M20 near Wrotham ’ , but they had no more details , they were just running errands for the Kent police . |
| 9 | And if they did give you the sack you would be walked away to the army I expect . |
| 10 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |
| 11 | they 'd take a piece with them and that was all they had to sustain them the whole day . |
| 12 | It could have been the second , but he had swallowed his pride when they had shown him the room that was allocated him . |
| 13 | They had patronised it the previous night , taking to heart its motto ( in Latin ) , ‘ drink yourself to hell ’ . |
| 14 | They had offered him the position of editor in chief with , apparently , more direct control over the content of the paper , but only if he came off the Board . |
| 15 | They had told him the chaprassi would want a bribe , but instructed him not to pay it . |
| 16 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 17 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |