Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] they [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How often have we plodding climbers and walkers set them off and thought to ourselves : ‘ I wish I could travel as fast and effortlessly as that . ’ |
| 2 | At one of these the Bishop of Ostia recalled the highlights of the evening when ‘ fifty reputable whores , not common but the kind called courtesans , supped … and after supper they danced about with the servants and others in the place , first in their clothes and then nude … chestnuts were strewn about and naked courtesans on hands and feet gathered them up , wriggling in and out among the candelabra … |
| 3 | It would have been busy with pupils going to a nearby school and parents dropping them off . |
| 4 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 5 | Inevitably the hyenas and pit-dogs dug them up . |
| 6 | In the end , most teenagers who play with pills and powders give them up . |
| 7 | 3 Collect equipment to monitor vital signs and charts to record them on . |
| 8 | Even here the peasantry was soon split as a result of Communist organization and the creation of a privileged group of peasant soldiers whose better food and clothes cut them off from their fellows . |