Example sentences of "and they [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 and they shared the same manager .
2 Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly .
3 This sometimes happens when managers must prepare for press conferences and they develop a superb presentation only to drop through the floor when an awkward press vulture homes in on the one weak link in the chain of argument .
4 They 've announced a new sports car to be built at Cowley and they launch a new model in April .
5 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit . ’
6 The Madonna and Child , whose wooden effigies were carved in 1615 , were said to have put an end to the great plague of 1634–41 and to have performed other miracles ever since , and they attracted a constant stream of worshippers throughout the year .
7 Some staff added other minor errors or disagreements but it soon emerged that some departments did not think that the report was fair and they criticized the general conclusion relating to their department .
8 Then the moment came when the tow line was released and they savoured the eerie feeling of riding the rising thermals .
9 In modern times churches and theatres were the only buildings which were designed to cope with crowds , and they offered no real clues to the scale of the problem now facing station architects .
10 They may be able to make something of that , and they deserve the best luck going for them .
11 On and on they flew until day turned into dusk and they reached the big supermarket on the edge of the town .
12 The king 's mother and sister took her to their hut and they prepared the finest clothes for her .
13 But they won a fair fight and they took a tremendous lot of trouble and they really did a very good campaign , there 's no question about that at all .
14 And they took a long time making it .
15 And they took a long time serving it .
16 And they took a whole level off , they 've dropped it by a storey .
17 And they took the thirty pieces of silver , the sum at which the precious One was priced by the children of Israel … ’
18 Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron .
19 The Daimler was parked at the end of the towpath , and they took the same road .
20 Penny only wanted a West Country holiday , not the least ingratiating thing about her , and they took the same cottage that his Mum had rented , and they stopped , he and Penny , for the same coffee and the same stroll round the monument .
21 She went to sit on the sofa , and there she dreamed of Johnny , tenderly and with affection ; she thought of the words that he had said , and they made a warm spot , infinitely sweet , deep inside her where it could not be touched ; for just an hour or two , she began to believe that she truly loved him .
22 I mean the mixer 's just as bad but really we 've got on to them Brian did and they made a good job , they squared it up .
23 Neither of them was competent to do that type of business and they made an expensive mistake .
24 The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations .
25 A pig and a chicken were walking together and they saw a huge sign advertising scrambled eggs and bacon .
26 There God dwelt among them and they saw the visible manifestation of his presence .
27 And they saw the Old Bill nicking us and letting the coons go .
28 Crawford and the rest of the cast began rehearsals with Gene Kelly and choreographer Michael Kidd in February 1968 , and they began the ninety-day shoot on 15 April .
29 When they did use credit , it tended to be HP ( again borne out by the small number of West Indians interviewed for the main survey ) , and they knew a fair amount about their rights in an HP transaction , though they felt that the language of the agreements should be simpler to understand .
30 They needed the captain back on the rails immediately , and they knew the best way to do this was let him simmer down for 24 hours .
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