Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden .
2 It was the same when her Mum got when it happened to her they got her a load of new clothes and she was trying them on and grandad said hey get in here now .
3 Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling .
4 I mean they outclassed us no question , no two ways about it , I du n no what it is .
5 They made her a slave labourer .
6 They made her a cup of coffee .
7 Fate : you ca n't go straight , nobody ever really crashes out , they made me a criminal , nobody lives for ever …
8 They made me a general 'cause I 'm old .
9 They made me an offer I could n't refuse . ’
10 They made it a rule never to pay , never to bribe , never to threaten to prosecute except in the case of dealers who could sell a young orang for several hundred pounds on the black market .
11 They made it a rule that she was never to be alone .
12 Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry .
13 ‘ Is that why they made you a general ? ’
14 So when , when they sold off the buildings , they made us no inclination that the was gon na farm it , he was in another job ?
15 Well he , he did n't really say a lot , er they asked him a question and er he , he just turned round and said er we hope , we hope it 's er a peaceful solution , that er virtually saying he hoped it did n't come to war , and Christine turned round and said ‘ yes we want a peaceful solution ’ .
16 They asked us a stream of questions , and laughed and chattered about themselves and their children .
17 They asked you a question to trap you
18 Now if you think you have been pleasant and helpful , you 've shared things with somebody , if they asked you a question you did n't bang them on the head , you helped , sign it now we come to the real sixty thousand point question , are you ready for this ?
19 Well they sold me an air rifle on my own .
20 Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use .
21 They dogged him the length and breadth of the country , wherever the small troupe of players appeared .
22 After I graduated from high school in 1984 I shaved my head and kept my hair short and they labelled me a skinhead .
23 When he first started to air his views on intensive farming methods they labelled him a crank and hoped he would go away .
24 Tip — I think the world of Tip junior and I did the father ; they helped me a lot — just did n't realize I 'd come all the way over from Ireland by boat and by train up to St Andrews to carry Arnold 's bag .
25 But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short .
26 They charged you a fortune and left you with nothing but a hopelessly constricting grid .
27 what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny .
28 They found him a teacher of clarity , whose lectures were the most enjoyable and most instructive which they heard during their training .
29 They found him a job as a Foreign Office translator .
30 I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking
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