Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 2 | And when the time come , they got her a new kidney , and it never took . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If they book me a flight out of Gatwick , like the charters do , I just say I 'm not going on that one , get me Luton , change the ticket , get me Manchester , I do n't care , I 'm not going from Gatwick . |
| 5 | Have they given you a tenor clef ? |
| 6 | And whats more the club payed for the flags to be fireproofed when they realised what a potential fire hazard they were . |
| 7 | The more they reflected upon this the more they realised what a massive amount of fixed capital is necessary to eliminate human intelligence and how incredibly intelligent human beings really are . |
| 8 | They made her a slave labourer . |
| 9 | They made her a cup of coffee . |
| 10 | Fate : you ca n't go straight , nobody ever really crashes out , they made me a criminal , nobody lives for ever … |
| 11 | ‘ They made me a general 'cause I 'm old . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They made it a rule that she was never to be alone . |
| 15 | 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and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 16 | ‘ Is that why they made you a general ? ’ |
| 17 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 18 | They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | They asked us a stream of questions , and laughed and chattered about themselves and their children . |
| 21 | They asked you a question to trap you |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | You know you know some people they lose them a bit young do n't they . |
| 24 | Would they lend you a dressing gown ? |
| 25 | My mum and dad deny that they make them a brew , but when I get home there 's usually 20 dirty cups outside the door . ’ |
| 26 | When combined , they make you a force to be avoided . |
| 27 | There is a history of heart disease in her family so Doc D gets her cholesterol checked every now and then and they make it a policy not to keep cheese in the house . |
| 28 | And the other thing about visual things , let's , let's say there is a reference to somebody having piles , but they make it a visual gag |
| 29 | After I graduated from high school in 1984 I shaved my head and kept my hair short and they labelled me a skinhead . |
| 30 | When he first started to air his views on intensive farming methods they labelled him a crank and hoped he would go away . |