Example sentences of "[adv] and they [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on , more to her father now than to her , in his light drawling voice she had to listen to in church every Sunday of her life telling them all what was what because he had the God-given power to do so and they had to listen and obey . |
| 2 | Now this is the time when you must watch them , because it can take from two to two days , two hours from two , two hours to two days to regain control of the brain , depending on the person and if it 's , happens outside and they want to get away , stress the fact you get up and run under a bus and they do n't mean to obviously |
| 3 | Dusk came quickly and they decided to stay where they were and camp for the night . |
| 4 | As the sky lightened even more and they began to make out their surroundings more clearly , Fenella and Caspar both found themselves looking out for the signs that Floy had hoped to leave . |
| 5 | If I phone home and they come to get me , will they recognize me ? |
| 6 | The waves had white caps now and they seemed to effervesce as they swept by . |
| 7 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
| 8 | ‘ The elevators in the main auditorium for scene changing do n't work well and they have to work well . |
| 9 | Davidson moved out of the house a week ago and they decided to separate last weekend . |
| 10 | But he said when you start paying money just into a building society and then lump sum this and lump sum that they tend to sort of then oh you know , what is actually going on here and they tend to start looking about a bit more . |
| 11 | When asked about it , he replied in his much-imitated growl , ‘ Fifteen years I 've been coming up here and they have to go and put this lump of concrete in the middle of the road . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's edible , you know , so there were three professors up here and they decided to divide it up and eat it , ’ said Joe Hennen , a professor of botany . |
| 13 | Hubel and his colleagues had studied the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey for many years without observing these cells and it was only when the cytochrome oxidase blobs had been demonstrated consistently and they started to look for receptive-field properties within them that they obtained these surprising results . |
| 14 | It goes on to say and it came about that in thy journeying eastward they eventually discovered a valid plain and a land of Shinar and they took up growing there and they began to say each one to the other come on let us make bricks and bake and bake with a burning process , so bricks served as stone for them and |
| 15 | Erm so they would have ch they chose to live there and they chose to move out . |
| 16 | It er they 'd had a fire there and they wanted to know if I could replace the lock . |
| 17 | Th about a quarter of people do unfortunately and they have to stop taking it . |
| 18 | They could n't be very quick because there was no electric light upstairs and they had to manage with the candle Carrie was holding . |
| 19 | to get rid of the abscess , oh god it was painful , it really was , in fact I had it once , I had a load of penicillin , did n't finish the penicillin and it came back again and they had to give me a stronger drug then for five days |
| 20 | Their boat was now downwind and they had to tack . |
| 21 | This takes on an added significance when it is remembered that geriatrics and the terminally ill are regarded as the failures of the health service and are often consigned to the young and inexperienced who , as one doctor recently put it , ‘ do strive very officiously to keep people alive because they are interested scientifically and they want to use every method they can as part of their training ’ . |