Example sentences of "and they [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 2 | The islanders were successful in their first sorties , they stole some guns , and they took their first prisoner , one Harry Butt , who seemed glad to give up without a struggle . |
| 3 | She opened her window and screamed and erm , of course the neighbours come but they was gone and they took it all they 're gold she had it on in bed , pulled it over husband neck , . |
| 4 | They contributed a small sum every week to buy the plants , build the pond and buy a lawn mower and two church benches , and they made their collective garden themselves . |
| 5 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 6 | Pies scones and they made their own with the potatoes . |
| 7 | None of this had any effect on the two Williams drivers , and they made their customary start . |
| 8 | Rovers were bubbling and they made it two on 15 minutes . |
| 9 | And they made it shorter for that reason . |
| 10 | And they made it clear that I was extremely fortunate to be doing the job I do . |
| 11 | You see there would n't have been a kiln at the mill before that I think it every house had their own kiln and they dried their own you ken . |
| 12 | The other girls had reached the top of the bank now , and they saw her long legs fairly leaping down the slope after the speeding pram . |
| 13 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 14 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 15 | ‘ And they told him this here cow run away . |
| 16 | National pamphleteers remote from the social relations of the villages might rant on about the idle and undeserving poor , but relief at local level was in the hands of the annually elected parish overseers supervised by the vestry meeting , and they knew their own poor well enough . |
| 17 | By now the Boeing company had realised that this was a matter of fundamental importance to one of their primary aircraft types and they sent their top rank engineers and metallurgists to participate , under the supervision of American investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board , in the UK investigation . |
| 18 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |
| 19 | They were treated well and they asked nothing more of life . |
| 20 | But they brought the hymn book with them , the same Baptist hymn book that spread throughout the Caribbean and the Pacific , and they deposited their hymnal , tune-structured music on top of these people . |
| 21 | On Jerba I had made it clear that I was not in the market for anything and they left me alone . |
| 22 | But we made our point and they left us alone after that . ’ |
| 23 | Oh they had a tap in the house , everybody had a tap in the house and they had their own toilets . |
| 24 | And they had everything ready for the squad coming in you know . |
| 25 | Scotland had the satisfaction of outscoring Queensland by two tries ( Stark and Lineen ) to one and they produced their best rugby of the tour to earn a well-deserved draw . |
| 26 | Over forty disabled ex-servicemen were employed within a month , and they produced their first million poppies within two months . |
| 27 | Some of its leading citizens acquired great wealth , especially from saffron and wine , and landed property , in the course of the twelfth century , and they displayed their newfound status by building the lofty towers which still make the skyline of the city so beautiful and so absurd — beautiful especially from a little distance , for the rolling Tuscan hills set off the imaginative colour and the dramatic skyline to remarkable effect . |
| 28 | So it was developed by the ladies of the day for the men to do their work and they developed their special patterns like Arran stitches , which I 'm going to show you now , like Fair Isle stitches . |
| 29 | Oakland 's Dave Henderson scored the A's first run with a homer in the second inning and they scored their second on a single by Dave Parker . |
| 30 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |