Example sentences of "and they [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Mr Thomas 's conditions , supported by Mrs Noble , was that Edward and Helen should not correspond when he left for Oxford , and they agreed to this for the first term . |
| 2 | To have polled Sun clients would not have been realistic , ’ Saillard commented — ‘ We gave Whatever a list of 500 names and they chose from that . ’ |
| 3 | Then Amanda Pennington might hear about it ; her cousin was in another House and they wrote to each other . |
| 4 | He co-operated with Walter Reynolds [ q.v. ] after Reynolds became archbishop of Canterbury , and they wrote to each other constantly , passing on gossip and information . |
| 5 | Reaching the hatch at the same time as the stranger outside , he collided with it , and they fell into each other 's arms . |
| 6 | Maggie rushed over to her sister , and they fell into one another 's arms . |
| 7 | That was seven years ago and they married in 1988 . |
| 8 | And they kept in close contact with the family in Wales . |
| 9 | In the end Sun chief executive officer Scott McNealy had his way and they came as twin cannon shots . |
| 10 | In the end Sun chief executive Scott McNealy had his way and they came as twin cannon shots . |
| 11 | , and they came for eighteen months , two years , at the end of which the quality of the work had deteriorated , price was rocketing up |
| 12 | They did ask him , however , and they came in hundreds for the purpose . |
| 13 | His Nan always gets lollies in for the kids and they came in more than useful this time . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin . |
| 15 | Lot nineteen sixty one , an option to purchase your honour for three hundred and eighty five which at that time was at a rate of nine hundred pounds a year and they went to this friend of the firm of solicitors and there of the document which doubly signed and was dated March twenty four nineteen sixty one but my consideration one pounds penny by thereby granted to for the purchasing of . |
| 16 | Erm , one of the things we had on the stall is erm this erm application form for N H S charges , now many people including probably people here do n't know that erm , you do n't have to be on supplementary to get help and Ann knows actually , er if your getting any rent or rate rebate and you fill this in , you 'll get some help , in some cases quite considerable help , and I suggested that we had some of these on our store room , got some from Welfare Rights , and they went like hot cakes , because most people did n't know about this , so following that we shall have , we shall keep these on our stall and I 've more or less suggested that Lisa on Age Concern in the Leah Manning should have them there because she 's constantly getting enquiries on that , so she is going to do that . |
| 17 | When bits of them broke off you had only to plunge them into the earth and they grew into new cactuses . |
| 18 | And they amalgamated in eighteen forty four to become the Railway . |
| 19 | And they said within fifty years false teeth will be a thing of the past . |
| 20 | and they got chaff from the farms you see , they were sent down before the fishing and they filled that and they lay on that . |
| 21 | Their throats had been cut and they lay like butchered animals in a waste of blood . |
| 22 | There was the afternoon when he drove out to the Crumbles and they slept for three hours , the wind pushing at the side of the car like a crowd . |
| 23 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 24 | well yesterday the black bird was there and they ate till late , I think , I think they roost in that er holly bush |
| 25 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 26 | And they added to this evidence from contemporary institutions which were ‘ how we have always done things ’ . |
| 27 | The flies were troubling them and they blew through distended nostrils , or shook their heads , or stamped an impatient hoof . |
| 28 | He turned to her , gathering her in his arms , and they rolled in glorious abandon on the roomy expanse of bed , a wanton tangle of limbs . |
| 29 | " Of course , " he said , " of Course , " and he even showed her the corridor that led to the Ladies ' room , and she escaped , and they escaped from each other . |
| 30 | He travelled widely in those days , often accompanied by his wife , and they lived for two years in the United States where he was responsible for ICI 's affairs in North and South America . |