Example sentences of "and they [vb past] 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 | Two guys tried to break in at three in the morning , and they woke the neighbours . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Murray grabbed him under the ribs and they reached the bottom of the stairs . |
| 10 | Rain hoped it would not happen and they reached the coffee before it did . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Those who had attended informed their colleagues of the fact — and they took the hint . |
| 14 | Well , the polis was brought , naturally , and they took the body away to the work house mortuary . |
| 15 | ‘ The first people to arrive were servants from Ipuky 's household , and they took the body there . |
| 16 | Then I went to prison and they made the baby a ward of court without telling me . |
| 17 | Yeah and they made the shapes that ants could |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | He 's been a bit disappointing and they made the difference . ’ |
| 20 | Ellen Jebeau rose from the table , and they made the gesture of rising too . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And I think what that emphasises in the constitution is that the founding fathers , who devised the constitution , saw the congress as the central organ of American government and they saw the presidency as an appendage . |
| 24 | As they passed the third cave , the golden bee flew out of the woman 's sleeve , and they saw the lightning flash and heard the thunder crack behind them . |
| 25 | But er I mean it always er gained there was just a few working with it and they saw the improvement it was making and then everybody for the wild white clover . |
| 26 | It was five o'clock and they began the trek homeward . |
| 27 | When the teller announced the Magharba vote at 1235 , implying a Magharba majority , the Zuwaya immediately protested that Magharba were present who had no right to vote : after a check of identity cards some men left and they began the vote again , this time counting both groups of supporters as they passed behind their goals . |
| 28 | Jesus said just before he was living his disciples , his followers , you and me , he said you shall receive power after the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me yes we witness by our life but there 's a danger in making that a cop out , because one other requirement of a witness is that they talk , they 've got ta say what they know , these four men were good witnesses , they went back and they told the city what they had found , and there 's placed upon you and me that responsibility to go back and to tell what we 've found , this is a day of good tidings , we do wrong to keep silent . |
| 29 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 30 | But they had no follow-up written , and they knew the public would be perfectly happy if they just disappeared , leaving behind this one camp masterpiece , and nothing afterwards to spoil it . |