Example sentences of "and they [verb] [pers pn] with " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 . And they left it with you , I ca n't believe that .
2 I mean Preston is about twenty miles south of er where we are but I know that there are gardens north of where we are that do grow good peaches but what they do they cover the er plants during the early spring round about February time and they cover it with very fine ne net , that 's all they need to do with it just cover it up when the flowers are out , make sure that they lift it off every now and again to do the pollinating , get them set and then when the frosts have gone take the net off .
3 Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight .
4 But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution .
5 Food , to them , was a commodity , and they treated it with as little respect as a bar of soap .
6 They come along with something sharp and heavy and they swat you with it .
7 The Texans share the town with Mexicans , and they share it with soldiers .
8 We ran away with Oliver between us , and they chased us with dogs . ’
9 Superficially , CAB workers have a twofold task : they interview clients and they supply them with information and advice .
10 The cyclists received a marvellous reception from the staff of JM Birmingham at 6am on completing this most challenging stage and they provided us with an excellent cooked breakfast .
11 They fouled their corners and filled the hot room with their smells , and they frightened him with their incessant snarling .
12 They led the dogs to a place where the river meandered and the shingle bank was broad and deserted , and they beat them with sticks or stoned them .
13 Well , you know , it you see , time were , I do n't know I suppose , I do n't know but I never seemed to be afraid and I used to have my or something round my waist , a belt with the keys hanging on and they supplied me with a as well , one of these , I do n't know what they 're made of they were n't all that heavy but still they were heavy enough to keep on .
14 He used almost völkisch language , claiming that the Romanians ( unlike the Hungarian , German and other minorities ) were ‘ autochthonous ’ : ‘ They did not come from elsewhere , they did not fall down from the sky ; they were born and lived here , in this land , and they defended it with their blood . ’
15 Some entrepreneurial showmen then decided they would try to make money out of his popularity and they caught him with the hope of transporting him to London to put on display .
16 They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin .
17 And they presented me with a Winston Churchill half-crown for my boxing .
18 The Barons in England were furious at John and they presented him with the Great Charter — Magna Carta — prepared by Archbishop Langston , to which John authorised the attachment of his seal at Runnymede , beside the River Thames , in June 1215 .
19 And they presented him with video equipment they bought for a children 's charity .
  Next page