Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them asked him a question . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I think talking to them helped me a lot to get over those first few months . |
| 4 | One of them told me the changes they 've put now are so dramatic , there might as well have been a change of government . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you know , one of them brought me an oxtail the other evening ? ’ |
| 6 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 7 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 8 | And when the time come , they got her a new kidney , and it never took . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I mean they outclassed us no question , no two ways about it , I du n no what it is . |
| 13 | They made her a slave labourer . |
| 14 | They made her a cup of coffee . |
| 15 | The sherpas climbing with her were so impressed by her stamina in temperatures around 30C below freezing they made her an honorary ‘ sherpani ’ . |
| 16 | Fate : you ca n't go straight , nobody ever really crashes out , they made me a criminal , nobody lives for ever … |
| 17 | ‘ They made me a general 'cause I 'm old . |
| 18 | They made me an offer I could n't refuse . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He was an expert on Russian affairs — as much of an expert as MPs get to be on anything — and they made him a junior minister to add credibility to their soft-line policy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They made it a rule that she was never to be alone . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Is that why they made you a general ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 26 | They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | They asked us a stream of questions , and laughed and chattered about themselves and their children . |
| 29 | They asked you a question to trap you |
| 30 | 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 ? |