Example sentences of "and they [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they fought like cat and dog at times . |
| 2 | The erotic quality had drained from them and they seemed like sepia prints in an album of someone else 's relations . |
| 3 | The original American legislation was only for women , and they made in fact some very erm convoluted and not very satisfactory arguments about why they should only do it for women . |
| 4 | He linked his arm through Sir John 's and they ambled across Tower Green , making their way carefully through the soft , dirty slush , alert for the icy patches which had n't thawed . |
| 5 | So angry was he with her that he flung a handful of the stars after her , and they fell to earth with such force that they formed a row of waterholes across the country . |
| 6 | He sold her heroin and they fell in love . |
| 7 | He was glad to let the subject drop and they drove in silence until he left her at the gate of Martyr 's Cottage . |
| 8 | and they were very good to me and they kept in touch with me |
| 9 | And they came with haste , and found Mary , and Joseph , and the babe lying in a manger . |
| 10 | The cattle landed at Holyhead , Birkenhead and Fishguard ; and they came by rail to Norwich . |
| 11 | Davies said he ditched his girlfriend for Fiona and they went on holiday together to Tenerife where Paul took pictures of her topless . |
| 12 | . And they went on Boxing Day dinner . |
| 13 | Well they 're busy doing King Lear and they went on stage . |
| 14 | They took it on their on their They went with their ponies in their little barrels you see , and they went on horseback over it . |
| 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 | about five grand at one stage and got it down to three and half , and then he got to six hundred and eighty and they went to court |
| 17 | The McKays qualified and married in Edinburgh and then left to work in London for a short time before travel beckoned and they went to work firstly in Papua New Guinea and then in Lusaka , Zambia . |
| 18 | After that there was a good meal of mutton stew and Aunt Sarah 's feather-light dumplings ( none of which anyone could eat ) and they went to bed early . |
| 19 | No one called that evening , and they went to bed early . |
| 20 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 21 | It was November and the nights drawing in , and they went after tea , telling the nans they were going to a friend 's house to play with his electric trains . |
| 22 | He asked what they would like to drink and they asked for coffee , declining his offer of liqueurs . |
| 23 | Zuwaya had no access to practical or ideological groupings , and they relied in politics on those which followed from their day-to-day sociability and loyalty . |
| 24 | But it was the Whigs who won the general election ; and they returned to office committed to parliamentary reform , the measure which for all the variety of the causes of social unrest and of the disorders they prompted , came increasingly to be the focus of the general demand for change . |
| 25 | So when the boys and I met and they said over tea I th , well why do n't we do something about a love affair , it just seemed right . |
| 26 | But at that time Langer and Graham were bogeying and they had to birdie the last in the finish to force a playoff . |
| 27 | Much later that night , when the storm had died down and they lay at rest in each other 's arms , on the verge of sleep at last , Leonora said very quietly , ‘ Penry . ’ |
| 28 | Eccleshall and Honderich , however , will have none of this , and they lay to rest , it is to be hoped for good , the idea of Conservatism as a ‘ non-ideology ’ . |
| 29 | Rostov addressed them in colonial argot and they grinned in response . |
| 30 | He dished up the casserole , and they ate in silence . |