Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of them got off and walked . |
| 2 | Her brother , Roger Lewis , already had a company that made gigantic floor cushions , so the three of them teamed up and opened a cushion shop in Chelsea . |
| 3 | Only they seemed to understand the rules ; one of them turned round and stroked Nigel 's knee . |
| 4 | Conversely , flame-coloured harridans that looked as if only Agent Orange could stop them curled up and died of aristocratic pique at the advancing hordes of dandelions . |
| 5 | When we all went to the pub and some of them went up and got non-alcoholic drinks and that , and they all said they could n't go into a pub and do that and they done it , no problem . |
| 6 | Most of them went out and re-offended . |
| 7 | There was some problem that one of them went back and talked to , presumably dad , perhaps mum though , erm and came back with a lovely engineered solution , but that did n't matter — they had fun doing it and they had fun trying these things and , believe me , the answer were ever so close to what the design I was amazed with what they produced . |
| 8 | Usually they hopped on and pumped away and suddenly it was over . |
| 9 | They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " . |
| 10 | ‘ … well , they got up and left so I thought I 'd clear their glasses as soon as I 'd finished with the man I was serving . |
| 11 | The next day , of course , they got up and went out to vote . |
| 12 | King Crimson was being partied by a signing label and they got up and played with Donovan . |
| 13 | Then they got up and ate hungrily on the hot porch , then sunbathed in the sweltering heat , lying in each other 's arms on the white beach , talking softly as the sea rippled beyond them . |
| 14 | And they were fitting in their own until they got up and running . |
| 15 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |
| 16 | If they got together and started to change things , showing real women or girls , then things could start to alter . |
| 17 | So they got together and decided to hide their cider and wine so the Germans should n't have it . |
| 18 | They got down and looked at him . |
| 19 | The injured man was supported by his colleague as they got out and fled through a security gate . |
| 20 | And eventually they got in and went off . |
| 21 | On the whole they lived peaceably and had lots of fellowship together . |
| 22 | It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength . |
| 23 | Their barrow full they straightened up and turned to push their way towards the road . |
| 24 | The bikers were so angry that they rode off and gave the cash to another children 's hospice at Quidenham , Norfolk . |
| 25 | They hankered for the bright lights of the capital , so in early 1778 they sold up and headed once again for London . |
| 26 | So I fretted and sweated as they stalked in and stared around with that disapproving , accusatory look of all cops everywhere . |
| 27 | The shops — those endless lines of shabby , plastic-fronted London shops , the paint peeling , the windows steamed up — finally reassembled themselves into council flats ; they disintegrated again and reappeared as boarded-up warehouses at Dalston Junction , weeds sprouting vigorously from cracks in the brickwork . |
| 28 | Then they moved on and repeated the whole performance 's two streets away . |
| 29 | They moved outside and saw a Land Rover pick-up emerge from the trees . |
| 30 | Er when we last did the work there in nineteen eighty nine he 'd , he 'd provided Gwyneth with three machines which they moved round and put on different places for us . |