Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] they [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered why John had not been more open with her but now she felt that she understood his situation better and they spent a blissful week together before he left . |
| 2 | A pig and a chicken were walking together and they saw a huge sign advertising scrambled eggs and bacon . |
| 3 | The Irish may have scored socially but they came a poor second on the field because , says DON CAMERON , they were not prepared for the speed and the impact of the N.Z. game . |
| 4 | The staff knew what was going on but they turned a blind eye . |
| 5 | A door opened automatically and they entered a huge control room . |
| 6 | She got up and they completed a rather formal foxtrot amid the strange gyrations of the more experimental couples . |
| 7 | A handful of thundering live shows , demos , radio and TV sessions later and they had a deal with U2 's Mother Records . |
| 8 | They must have been renewed somewhere about the erm I would say roughly round about nineteen twenty seven , twenty eight and that 's been renewed as lock gates , cos they took 'em out and they had a big crane come from Rotterdam to lift them up and er things do now well that 's surprising what they do do now . |
| 9 | I saw them play in Hong Kong some years ago and they looked a jolly good side . |
| 10 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 11 | And they came from abroad and they had a |
| 12 | But he knows actually what we 're trying to do on a Sunday , and they either like to play us , er er once or twice and they got a reasonable ground . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ The Tates were there and they sent a big wreath ; we ought to have invited them back with us . ’ |
| 14 | Jean Coulter joined her there and they had a brief conversation . |
| 15 | They sat in there and they drank a whole bottle of scotch between them one Christmas . |
| 16 | There were two Jamaican boys in there and they made a point of crowding the counter , holding their elbows akimbo , so that Shiva was unable to pick up his paper from the pile in front of them . |
| 17 | That 's where the Phoenix is standing right now there was great big piece there and they held a crafty there in the very first early in April . |
| 18 | So the women got Anna to open her door and the prince was pushed forward and asked her pardon and promised never to see the French girl again and they had a great drama and Anna consented to be reconciled . |