Example sentences of "they [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed to pay him thirty three thousand pounds but he rejected the offer . |
| 2 | They helped to make him unmistakable , which he liked . |
| 3 | Bannered ‘ Women Face the '90s ’ , the Time cover features a woman with a briefcase in one hand and a baby in the other -a symbol of those women who feel betrayed by feminism because , as the magazine says , they tried to have it all and now they 've just plain had it . |
| 4 | I would say that , instead of ‘ spoon-feeding ’ the residents , they tried to make them independent . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd heard of Lina 's return , of course , although they tried to keep it quiet . |
| 6 | I questioned the need for such a display of guns and they seemed to find it difficult to justify them . |
| 7 | Small moans of protest sounded in her throat but they seemed to excite him more , because he growled with satisfaction , his lips branding hers with heat . |
| 8 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 9 | If the Government wo n't believe us when we tell them the truth , maybe they will now believe the people they paid to give them this report . |
| 10 | They started to give him more advice . |
| 11 | Then they started again , they started to give her another they did , and the same thing happened . |
| 12 | The result was two fragrances , which Laura liked equally , so they decided to introduce them both calling them , simply , Number 1 and Number 2 . |
| 13 | In order , as they thought to render them suitable for through running to London , No. 55 was experimentally fitted with Westinghouse air brakes in August 1924 . |
| 14 | I suppose that 's because they had to kill him first . |
| 15 | She takes a sip of mineral water before launching into James Woods and his girlfriend , Sarah Owen : ‘ I 've a theory that James and his girlfriend had so many problems they had to turn it all on me . ’ |
| 16 | Hm , I think we said last time that they had to tell you this month with the money . |
| 17 | ‘ Even so they had to send her half round the world . |
| 18 | Mrs Sheblee said : ‘ We kept ringing for explanations but they refused to discuss it other than to say it would cost another £1,000 . |
| 19 | Er they wanted to charge us eighty pence per transaction , and after a lot of argument we managed to pin them down er at er ten pounds for the at at the rate of two pounds fifty per quarter . |
| 20 | They wanted to see it happy and successful and as far as possible united . |
| 21 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 22 | As far as decent environments were concerned , they were the ‘ haves ’ and they wanted to keep it that way . |
| 23 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 24 | You know , say if they wanted to get you three C's and you got three A's shut up Sam ! |