Example sentences of "and they [vb past] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think just the fact that my wife knew what was going on , and knew the problems exactly you know , they had their own meetings and the food parcels that they could organize , you know I would n't have a clue how to go about it , the fact that various shops refused to have collection points inside , and they wrote off to the management of these shops and got that changed . |
| 2 | Above the uproar , Gerrard signaled furiously at the men with the microphones , and they fell back to the sides of the studio , pulling the microphones away from eagerly reaching hands , and Gerrard began to walk backward toward the dais , looking from side to side as he went . |
| 3 | And they came close to the wall of flint where Wynne-Jones waited , breathless with anticipation . |
| 4 | He met Pilger in the foyer and they went up to the room . |
| 5 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 6 | The water lapped about their feet , and they went back to the posts . |
| 7 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 8 | ‘ Still — ’ murmured Juliet , and they went along to the haematology department . |
| 9 | Corbett smiled and they went across to the porter 's lodge near the main gate . |
| 10 | He arranged an abortion which went wrong and they went off to the South of France to recuperate . |
| 11 | For a while the man stood muttering and cursing as he clanked his heavy ring of keys , but at last he found the right one and they stepped on to the moonlit track which ran down like a strip of silver through the overhanging trees . |
| 12 | She ran , jumped on her girlfriend 's motorbike and they roared off to the house in the middle of the ricefields where they were staying , the bike slewing around in panic . |
| 13 | Children from the local primary school cycled the path to attend the ceremony , but when Walter and Ted started reminiscing about bike rides to Newcastle in the 1920's , their patience ran out and they scampered off to the village hall for their free tea ! |
| 14 | She slid obediently off the bar stool , bidding a civil good-morning to the café owner who looked , McLeish observed , as if he would willingly have swept her into his plump Italian embrace , and they walked together to the gates of New Scotland Yard . |
| 15 | Devlin got up and they walked out to the terrace . |
| 16 | Nails replied with some very bad language , which somewhat alienated Shirl , and they walked back to the police-car in silence , and Nails was locked in the back . |
| 17 | Juliet laughed , and they walked back to the car . |
| 18 | The undertaker selected four of them and they bent willingly to the coffin , easier in their minds about the embarrassments of grief , because now they had something they could do . |
| 19 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 20 | The children began to worry , and they climbed down to the mouth of the tunnel . |
| 21 | Most of the men carrying the throne had served as army conscripts , and they reacted instinctively to the sound of the explosions . |