Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 And they sold me The Last Boy Scout .
5 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 .
6 They dogged him the length and breadth of the country , wherever the small troupe of players appeared .
7 Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ?
8 But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short .
9 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
10 Yeah , yeah they mentioned you the other day at Eddy just said to him you know ,
11 Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’
12 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 ? ’
13 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 .
14 They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight .
15 I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way .
16 While I gratefully sipped my pint , they told me the story .
17 When I came out , they told me the court dates of when he was going to be adopted .
18 ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day .
19 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 .
20 When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday .
21 ‘ When they told me the body had been mutilated and burnt I did n't think it was Brian .
22 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 .
23 He did not feel happy when they told him the result .
24 Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working .
25 They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one .
26 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 .
27 When they assured him the deposits were in order , he assumed it was a payment due from a former employer .
28 ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time .
29 I went to Newark and got a job at , a ball bearing factory , and er they paid me the handsome wage of er two pounds sixteen for forty seven hours .
30 They tagged him the Nabob Of Sob , the Prince Of Wails and the Cry Guy .
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