Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 2 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 3 | Yeah , yeah they mentioned you the other day at Eddy just said to him you know , |
| 4 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |
| 5 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 6 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 7 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 8 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 9 | I went to Newark and got a job at , a ball bearing factory , and er they paid me the handsome wage of er two pounds sixteen for forty seven hours . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 12 | They called him the One-Eyed Guest and Elisabeth recalled how , when she was young , the peasants never harvested a field without putting out a sheaf for Odin 's horse . |
| 13 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 14 | Twenty-five years later , when Thérèse and Léonie at last began to talk to each other about that time , they called it the odd summer . |
| 15 | Years ago they had all these narrow looms , about this size , and this is where women worked , they called it the narrow section , and maybe mostly for hotels or you know , in the olden days they had stair , your mother 'll probably , stair runners or holes and the , the carpet just went like that and there 'd be a piece of lino up the side , |
| 16 | They called it the old comedians |
| 17 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 20 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |