Example sentences of "and they [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they knew perfectly well when the connections had been made . |
| 2 | And they came out sooner than we did |
| 3 | ‘ I could hear their croaking and their arguments and they came ever nearer until suddenly out of the mist I saw the grey shadow of a wing and wet spike of a beak . |
| 4 | Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project . |
| 5 | Formulaic expressions such as ‘ Once upon a time … and they lived happily ever after ’ can be used explicitly to mark the boundaries of a fragment . |
| 6 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 7 | Last year alone they had more than 400,000 winners and they paid out more than £40 million . |
| 8 | It gave her the chance to be with Marguerite , though , and they talked quite easily as they moved around the kitchen . |
| 9 | In the ninth century , members of this magnate stratum , this " imperial aristocacy " , could still move about the Carolingian world ; and they moved nearly always as individuals , no doubt with retinues , but not ( an exceptional case apart ) concerting action with groups of kinsmen . |