Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To babies had this dried milk and some of them got it cheap and I suppose there was no work and then they were poor were n't they . |
| 2 | The prospect of seeing them made him full of joy . |
| 3 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 4 | Whatever these changes were , many who witnessed them found them worrying and unsettling . |
| 5 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 6 | Both of them found it difficult to express their feelings on the war , except in the third person , so strong were their views . |
| 7 | ( Both of them told me this ! ) ’ |
| 8 | He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago . |
| 9 | Their nerve was a match for his ; they had most of them served him several years , for his men did not leave him . |
| 10 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
| 11 | I think they got me this lovely velvet one . |
| 12 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 13 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 14 | but I think they got it first . |
| 15 | My bag , my writing , my camera , films — they got it all ! ’ |
| 16 | When they got it all home , the honeycombs were cut and drained through cloth into jars . |
| 17 | She spoke of tears at times until they got it right but accepted the suffering as he had no favourites and called them all his ‘ dolly girls ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ They got it right , ’ he said to me , alluding to that household with its charming and honest children . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , ’ he repeated to himself gravely , ‘ they got it right . ’ |
| 22 | Dai knew only too well that the company mentality was to persevere until they got it right . |
| 23 | On this particular the Government have got it right , and I am proud that they got it right . |
| 24 | What they could n't read about , they guessed , and very often they got it wrong . |
| 25 | Shake-up in English as Government admit they got it wrong |
| 26 | Cos they got it wrong . |
| 27 | No , I think it 's just I think they plan well according er to John yesterday they planned it this way . |
| 28 | They planned it this way ? |
| 29 | erm he did n't think they had any bilingual signs and they did n't have they were n't using their Portakabins so they scrapped them all last year sold them off . |
| 30 | So if they made me redundant or whatever I know all the ins and outs . |