Example sentences of "and they [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they revealed how the secret of a happy marriage is compromise . |
| 2 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 3 | Once spinning , they are difficult to stop , and they flash down the slopes in a series of great leaps and bounds , making a loud whirring noise , and travel sometimes for hundreds of metres . |
| 4 | We call them Greek myths and they tell how the gods and their companions ruled and organised the world . |
| 5 | And they went down the shelter . |
| 6 | And they pick up the tunes of the language . |
| 7 | You ca n't sleep you 're actually providing your own sleep deprivation and you say hey , next thing you know I really will be falling down the stairs ! but he does n't seem to get the joke and then it 's back to the cell and then the interview room with the barred , opaqued windows so you ca n't see out and they switch on the tape-machine recording everything as usual and it 's getting more bizarre ; they get me to do a Michael Caine voice ! |
| 8 | ‘ And I 've been stung by nettles , ’ he said , injured , and pretended not to hear Dorrainge who said it was a mistake to pamper nettle stings , and they had n't the time to soothe people 's silly imagined injuries . |
| 9 | And that 's an it 's an ideal display see the mechanics working and they take out the cage and off you go . |
| 10 | They are n't cheap to buy or send , and they clutter up the house . |
| 11 | Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject . |
| 12 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 13 | And they put up the flats , and I think I 'm right there , is about seven hundred dwellings . |
| 14 | They 're doing it there , and they go up the way . |
| 15 | Camcorder viewfinders are , in effect , miniature television screens , and they show both the scene as received by the camcorder lens and also the recorded picture when the machine is switched to playback . |
| 16 | And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already . |
| 17 | What we witness here is something resembling the Freudian proposition that the repressed returns via the very images , structures , and mechanisms of repression itself : the words which consummate the renewal of man , his salvation , these words return to signify the opposite of salvation which is damnation , and they signify also the desire which only damnation can acknowledge and which salvation must repress . |
| 18 | Until 1948 the British ruled Palestine , but on 15th May that year the British mandate came to an end , and they handed over the country to the Jews . |
| 19 | Their actual effect was pretty disastrous ; they screwed up the whole culture , and they opened up the island to being overrun by pineapple and sugar plantations . |
| 20 | And he was shouting back to him , but , and then they went up the stair and they called up the stair and I and I do n't know whether it was an affair , the fella that was screaming but he him a mouthful ! |
| 21 | Then it was gone , and they laboured up the slope with me , trussed and helpless . |
| 22 | A series of screenings were arranged in 1912 to ‘ demonstrate the high qualities of the British film ’ , and they proved rather the opposite . |
| 23 | And they do n't the T Q M stuff 'll be er I do n't know what we 're gon na do with that . |
| 24 | Even when market buildings are plain fare in architectural terms , simple cleaning and bright , fresh paint can quickly make them attractive and eyecatching ; and they offer just the type of premises that appeal to many young and growing businesses . |
| 25 | Ginny twisted towards him and they slid down the bed . |
| 26 | ‘ And they have n't the strength for heavy digging . |
| 27 | Eventually I called the police and they broke down the door . |
| 28 | He caught HIV from a casual encounter , did n't realise and they patched up the row . |
| 29 | And then , of course the er , they started running down Northgate hospital and they closed down the nurses home . |
| 30 | and they wonder why the police are telling them not to go in there . |