Example sentences of "and they [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And they fought the fire until they were finally er had to go out of the tower altogether .
2 A little short of four Winds he stopped the car and they shared the remains of the picnic .
3 I 'm happy to see that the attitude of the C E C and of the General Secretary has changed radically , I would say , since last year , when it and they opposed the Liverpool motion , which also called for accountability of Labour councillors and M Ps .
4 At the end of one particularly painful lesson , Miss Hatherby did release them and they stalked the room stiffly , pecking at the furniture and flapping their wings , to Constance 's great delight .
5 The range decreased to three hundred yards , and they scanned the traffic ahead for a tall man on a small motor-cycle and wearing no crash-helmet .
6 For them it is a matter of Christian commitment and they serve the Church well and faithfully .
7 Two guys tried to break in at three in the morning , and they woke the neighbours . ’
8 Whatever their spheres of extended influence the gentry 's power was based on the land they owned , and they formed the cap of a local social pyramid down which prosperity spread .
9 One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock .
10 They are the most purely magical beings ever known , the sidh , and they covet the bodies of Humans .
11 So there was , there 's a lot of sections of the community out , out there in terms of the business community , who have actually indicated that the County Council should be spending more in terms of economic development not less , and they criticized the Commission in terms of identifying some of the reductions which they have made erm , as part of this year 's budget alone .
12 Conspiratorial imagery was used : ‘ The Zionists continue to attack and criticize Mialster Farrakhan and they pull the strings of their Black and White political marionettes to do the same . ’
13 Governments are expected by the public to have ‘ policies ’ , based upon general considerations and principles ; and they delegate the execution of those policies to their officials .
14 The tremolo is a licensed Floyd , very close to Ibanez 's ‘ Edge ’ system ; it 's finished in gold , as are the no-name machine heads , and they match the finish on the guitar perfectly .
15 Murray grabbed him under the ribs and they reached the bottom of the stairs .
16 Rain hoped it would not happen and they reached the coffee before it did .
17 If a man engages skilled advisors to act for him and they mistake the time limit and present it too late he is out .
18 William did n't know what it was — flood or earthquake , drought or famine , or a combination of all four — but they moved , and they took the fleas and the bacilli with them , and somewhere in their travels they encountered the black rat rattus rattus , and the drama began to move along a bit , because rattus rattus was a vagabond and a great little mover .
19 That slaughter , when it comes , is reported in the baldest possible terms : ‘ … the people went up into the city , every man straight before him , and they took the city .
20 Those who had attended informed their colleagues of the fact — and they took the hint .
21 Well , the polis was brought , naturally , and they took the body away to the work house mortuary .
22 ‘ The first people to arrive were servants from Ipuky 's household , and they took the body there .
23 Then I went to prison and they made the baby a ward of court without telling me .
24 Yeah and they made the shapes that ants could
25 No one could argue they did n't deserve it though … and they made the match their own with a second try … a good one too … skipper Ian Smith made the break … number eight Paul Ashmead started a charge to the line and full-back Martin Roberts ran on to finish the scoring …
26 He 's been a bit disappointing and they made the difference . ’
27 Ellen Jebeau rose from the table , and they made the gesture of rising too .
28 Though they hate the war and they hate the draft , they still believe America can be beautiful if it lives up to its own principles . ’
29 ‘ Bribery and corruption , ’ Isobel said tartly , as she drew her sables more tightly around her , and they mounted the steps to Edouard 's plane for the flight back to Paris .
30 Erm I think it it it started off , people would come in the dayroom , with their own supplementary benefit problem , and and clearly we had the sort of handbooks there and and they saw the probation officers on on duty as people who could help them to sort out that sort out that kind of problem .
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