Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] both " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose and led them both down the stone steps , coming to a halt at the entrance to the vestry door . |
| 2 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 3 | Taking a step back , he flung the blanket aside , cursing aloud as the movement wrenched his arm , and lowered them both to the hard bench . |
| 4 | A huge steel crane hook suddenly descended quietly between their faces and made them both leap back in alarm . |
| 5 | Alain Lemarchand turned and regarded them both with ironic amusement . |
| 6 | The question for an Industrial Tribunal is not whether one of them was innocent but whether you carried out such reasonable investigation as you could and you reasonably believed it was either or both and dismissed them both because of that belief . |
| 7 | Villagers arrived and helped them both to a local hospital — ‘ a filthy hospital with no sanitation — we begged them to use a clean needle . |
| 8 | That night a bird hurled itself against the window pane and woke them both up . |
| 9 | On the moors O'Hara had endeavoured to summon up Heathcliff , and a gust of wind from beyond the grave had blown the cycle off course and toppled them both into a ditch . |
| 10 | Constance watched Ludo and Gioella laughing at some private joke , and hated them both . |
| 11 | He went to garage , took out axe , took out knife , went upstairs and killed them both . |
| 12 | There were tears in her eyes and when they went through to the kitchen she hugged and kissed them both . |
| 13 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 14 | The walk back from that moment had been silent but the closeness between them shocked and frightened them both . |
| 15 | As the mandroids calmly gassed the beaked exter and carted them both off to be flung into the street , I slid on to one of the unstained seats at the table and cheerfully looked around for a servaton . |
| 16 | Still , at least it 's had a happy ending and brought you both together to make up your differences , and hopefully make you both think twice before starting another tiff in the future . |
| 17 | There were no farewell parties for me when I left Moose Jaw , although Fred Workman took me to lunch and treated us both to a glass of ale at the Grant Hall Hotel . |
| 18 | Hindley began to be jealous of his father 's feelings for Heathcliff , and saw them both as enemies . |
| 19 | But he considered this an unforgivable insult to his dignity and marched us both to an underground lavatory on the edge of the square , followed by a curious and gleeful crowd waiting for the extranjeros to get their come-uppance . |
| 20 | They recorded the usual four songs and gave them both English and Ukrainian names . |
| 21 | A man called Rodrigo Paestra has discovered his nineteen-year-old wife with a lover and shot them both . |
| 22 | He eventually gave this one up and left them both threatening the car park attendant , but it took him half an hour to cross the street and ring the bell at No. 3 . |
| 23 | He blotted the card and slid them both under the counter . |