Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He blotted the card and slid them both under the counter . |
| 2 | He slapped both hands palms down on the table , slopping his tea and making them all jump , totally unselfconscious in his misery . |
| 3 | A man called Rodrigo Paestra has discovered his nineteen-year-old wife with a lover and shot them both . |
| 4 | Now that you have a vague idea what is going on , you could be forgiven for throwing up your hands in disgust and letting them all get on with it . |
| 5 | When practising a complete and complex system drill it is of course not possible to place all the separate drills side by side and drill them all in one go . |
| 6 | If the whites can only hold their form , this may allow us to sneak up on the blind side and pip them both at the death . |
| 7 | That night a bird hurled itself against the window pane and woke them both up . |
| 8 | At the height of the criticism , Law met constituency chairmen and agents at the Queen 's Hall and told them that |
| 9 | At first I could n't see them , but when I heard a little quack I had a close look and saw them all there huddled together and trying to keep warm . |
| 10 | On the moors O'Hara had endeavoured to summon up Heathcliff , and a gust of wind from beyond the grave had blown the cycle off course and toppled them both into a ditch . |
| 11 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
| 12 | He was talking faster and faster , pulling an accordion pleat of plastic cards from his pocket , folding and unfolding it , slipping each card past the robot 's swivelling eye and puffing them all back again before it could read any of them . |
| 13 | The children opened each jar and sampled them all . |
| 14 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 15 | Chief Inspector of CID took charge and charged them all and then diplomacy came in and they went to court , discharged , back on the ship , and away . |
| 16 | Comrade Wu , our guide who is coming with us for the rest of the tour , is teaching us some Chinese in the evenings , and we are trying out some new phrases every day and causing them some amusement . |
| 17 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 18 | Then Miss Harker lifted her head and addressed them all in solemn tones . |
| 19 | Following the instructions , I filled my saucepans and kettle with water and set them all to boil . |
| 20 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 21 | ‘ Your teeth 'll be straight in six months , and you can get contact lenses when your father 's insurance comes in at Christmas , grow a bosom and stun them all . ’ |
| 22 | Faster than a computer , Robyn 's mind reviewed these candidates for the target of the strike and rejected them all . |
| 23 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 24 | So I did all their clothes last night and got them all dried |
| 25 | Mrs. Browne had been at their Mayfair flat and seen them all off together . |
| 26 | Sir George Askwith , the Board of Trade 's Chief Industrial Commissioner , quickly persuaded Devonport to meet Harry Gosling and Harry Orbell , an influential official of the London Dockers , who were representative of both the executive of the Transport Workers ' Federation and the workers ' side of the Port of London Authority and to assure them that existing agreements would be maintained . |
| 27 | At the feast that night , Eachuinn Odhar lay back in his chair and shocked them all . |
| 28 | Do you really think that the Jolly Green Giant puts the lights on at two o'clock in the morning and gets them all to pick the corn ? |
| 29 | All you have to do is draw all the little bits of an object and push them all together to make a silhouette of the object and then performing one combine operation joins them all together to make an outline that would take you a lot longer to draw in one piece . |
| 30 | if management took an interest in the workforce and allowed them some control over their environment then the workforce would feel less alienated from the workplace ; |