Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election . |
| 2 | One of them told me the changes they 've put now are so dramatic , there might as well have been a change of government . |
| 3 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 4 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They dogged him the length and breadth of the country , wherever the small troupe of players appeared . |
| 9 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 10 | But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Yeah , yeah they mentioned you the other day at Eddy just said to him you know , |
| 13 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 14 | Is he aware that they posed me the question , ’ Is anybody in the Government prepared to stand up and fight to defend the coal industry ? ’ |
| 15 | In the first place developing countries accepted the loans that were thrust at them because they believed what the West was telling them — that it would be possible for them to industrialize , to develop their economies to the point where paying back the loan later on would be an easy matter . |
| 16 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |
| 17 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
| 18 | While I gratefully sipped my pint , they told me the story . |
| 19 | When I came out , they told me the court dates of when he was going to be adopted . |
| 20 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 21 | ‘ They told me the regulators would n't allow it and that Glasgow housewives would n't be able to do it ’ , he recalls with a smile . |
| 22 | When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday . |
| 23 | ‘ When they told me the body had been mutilated and burnt I did n't think it was Brian . |
| 24 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 25 | He did not feel happy when they told him the result . |
| 26 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 27 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 28 | Yes Chairman , of the hundred and sixty thousand plus cost , erm , part of the contribution by the major servicing committee , and I understand that they advised me the balance has been made from local contributions , and charitable sources . |
| 29 | When they assured him the deposits were in order , he assumed it was a payment due from a former employer . |
| 30 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |