Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they got rid of the lot for a couple of Ford motor trucks , and William 's grandad with them . |
| 2 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
| 3 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 4 | The worst thing they ever did was on the leader page , the last one they got rid of the Extended Titling on . |
| 5 | ‘ People never remember what happened immediately before they got hit on the head , ’ Wexford said cheerfully , ‘ especially when their skulls are fractured . |
| 6 | They got trapped in a hole , and no one could get near enough to get them out . |
| 7 | By formally merging , companies could continue their old practices within the merged company and take their chance if they got investigated by the MMC . |
| 8 | And of course they got knocked about a lot . |
| 9 | Liverpool 's inexperience meant they got sucked into the type of game a more experienced side would never have got involved in . |
| 10 | Similar complaints were heard in the Church of England about the condition of curates during the nineteenth century , a time when what pay they got came from the parish priest under whom they served or whose place they took in the parish while he lived elsewhere . |
| 11 | They became separated near the river which had become swollen in torrential rain and gales . |
| 12 | The vast majority curse the day they became hooked on the habit . |
| 13 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 14 | As thousands of troops and vehicles , many loaded with looted goods , struggled north on the main road to Basra , they became caught in a congested and disorganized column many kilometres in length , and were subjected to hours of ruthless attack from the air with cluster bombs and , possibly , incendiary weapons . |
| 15 | They became known as the ‘ separated ones ’ ( this is what the name Pharisee means ) because of their refusal to compromise . |
| 16 | They became trapped in the ice . |
| 17 | It was not that they went away , it was that they became interwoven with the strange elusive echoes and the memories that lingered in the vast dark Castle . |
| 18 | But with the coming of modernity proper , that is with industrialisation , what made the philosophies so potent was that they became embodied as a functional rationality . |
| 19 | There is some evidence that these were originally connected to his grandson Frederick II , and that by the mysterious process of collective imagination and tradition , they became drawn to the more powerful figure of Barbarossa . |
| 20 | ‘ But somehow , they became rooted in the reserves , whereas we felt they should have zoomed into the premier league and joined the elite of beat . ’ |
| 21 | The oxygen they produced accumulated over the millennia to form the kind of oxygen-rich atmosphere that we know today . |
| 22 | In they came accompanied by a Sister whose red QA cape clashed horribly with her beautiful auburn hair . |
| 23 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 24 | Paul Richardson was the first person they 'd met on the island who was prepared to work as long and as hard as they did . |
| 25 | Er they do after , yes th the , the nationalists had moved back across the south after nineteen forty five erm th th they 'd , they 'd retreated from the Japanese progressively after nineteen forty one and abandoned Shanghai and etcetera . |
| 26 | Swindon Town say they 're disappointed after a Football League Tribunal valued their former player manager Glen Hoddle at only seventy five thousand pounds , when they 'd hoped for a million . |
| 27 | But it could also mean that erm they were getti that it they had been successful in getting taxation from what they 'd done since the beginning of cos they felt they could go even further . |
| 28 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 29 | But the real the real glorious irony I think that cheers up erm psephologists like me , political analysists , is that in those May elections the Conservatives did dramatically well compared to what they 'd done in the general election . |
| 30 | She remembered those kisses they 'd exchanged in the water . |