Example sentences of "they and [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And before I go tomorrow we 'll compose a joint letter to the two of them , pointing out how well we get on without them and urging them not to hurry back . |
| 2 | Instead we allow it to open our letters , read them and tell us how to reply . |
| 3 | Priestley supported them and made it well known , so much so that he was asked not to attend the dinner — just in case . |
| 4 | As they passed one of the Mason 's guards , they startled him out of dozing , and he hastily got up , cursing them and telling them not to go out of sight . |
| 5 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 6 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |