Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they got it all home , the honeycombs were cut and drained through cloth into jars . |
| 2 | If they did not know the word less , their responses followed a pattern of chance responding ; if they did know it , they got it right nearly all the time . |
| 3 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 4 | ‘ They made it official just a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 5 | they made it useful again . |
| 6 | In go the Pyramids , Atlantis , the Holy Grail , the Knights Templar , the Freemasons , Napoleon , the Paris Metro map , Hitler , Ayers Rock and , unfortunately , much more besides ; out comes a dread secret to do with control of the ‘ telluric currents ’ which cause earthquakes or continental drift or something ; not that it much matters , since they made it all up . |
| 7 | ‘ They made it all up , ’ said Thresher 's Jayne Bridges . |
| 8 | They made it clear also , as they had to do because of the rules by which we work , that no such change could be put into effect without formal consultation and the consent of both Houses . |
| 9 | They made it different then did n't they ? |
| 10 | With two National Division Four North games to play , are on course to clinch their third promotion in the last four season when they made it ten out of ten league wins with their slender 3–0 success Stourbridge . |
| 11 | He was carrying the same carrier-bag and for some reason they found it impossible not to stare at it . |
| 12 | ‘ And they told him this here cow run away . |
| 13 | They measured it all out painstakingly . |
| 14 | They did n't like the turkey so they threw it all away . |
| 15 | And they , er when they did it , they knocked it all down , and that was really wrong and unnecessary , and though I think some of the flintstone was used , a lot of the flintstone went back in the builder 's yard , and it was a criminal thing at the time . |
| 16 | you see then they pulled them all down and built the ice rink there . |
| 17 | They called us all down to see what a million pounds looked like . |
| 18 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 19 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 20 | ‘ They kept you asleep there , ’ Azmaveth said . |
| 21 | They sent me another out and I thought oh right , but if I find it I 've to let them know , either give them it back or |
| 22 | They thought it all anyway . |
| 23 | That er Tess bought and they did it all up . |
| 24 | they , they , they tore it all down which was the most wonderful thing . |
| 25 | I see they cleared it all up . |
| 26 | Er they had them all back like when the pits was nationalized , all these people who 'd been sacked you know got back on . |
| 27 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 28 | They wanted them all back when I agreed to sell — at their price — but I said I 'd spilt coffee on some of them and thrown them away . |