Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 2 | Cos the mortgages and that but there 's a lot of them , and kids causing it , and Christmas was coming well you know we just , that 's when they helped us at Christmas was really fantastic yes , true I never thought anything really out of this world how the how the people helped We got toys and everything for the kids ' Christmas , everything you could think of . |
| 3 | ‘ They phoned me at home on a Friday evening and that night I went out to celebrate , ’ she said . |
| 4 | When they told me at work she 'd bought that , I was , cos they lived up at Green Lane I thought my God he 'd have they 've picked a a bad spot there cos there 's no flood protection at all there . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're looking a bit peaky , ’ they told her at work , and she tried desperately to conceal her fatigue . |
| 6 | They told us at school to ask a policeman if we got lost , and show him our yellow card with our name and address on it . |
| 7 | Like me , she 'd run right out on all that ‘ old , dull , white stuff ’ they taught you at school and college . |
| 8 | Just like they taught us at college . |
| 9 | ‘ Dirkie ’ they called him at school . |
| 10 | You know they , they ran , they took the nurses , because the nurses home was a mile or , was it a mile or a mile and a half or something from the hospital , they had this , they took them in the morning and then they took them at lunchtime and then all the different shifts coming on and off they took them , and they had the schools run as well . |
| 11 | They took them at school , all at school . |
| 12 | They put him at a-disadvantage . |
| 13 | They left me at school , Mum and Dad and Annie . |