Example sentences of "and they [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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31 And they always have a holiday abroad and they go out a lot , good social life .
32 And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already .
33 The landing was bumpy and they skipped over a small iceberg at the end of the runway where it sloped down to meet the fiord .
34 Until 1948 the British ruled Palestine , but on 15th May that year the British mandate came to an end , and they handed over the country to the Jews .
35 Their actual effect was pretty disastrous ; they screwed up the whole culture , and they opened up the island to being overrun by pineapple and sugar plantations .
36 And he was shouting back to him , but , and then they went up the stair and they called up the stair and I and I do n't know whether it was an affair , the fella that was screaming but he him a mouthful !
37 But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch .
38 Then it was gone , and they laboured up the slope with me , trussed and helpless .
39 Ginny twisted towards him and they slid down the bed .
40 Eventually I called the police and they broke down the door .
41 He caught HIV from a casual encounter , did n't realise and they patched up the row .
42 And then , of course the er , they started running down Northgate hospital and they closed down the nurses home .
43 The male fertilises them and they roll down a moist groove and into the brood sac .
44 They start off on a barrow in a market and they build up an enormous industry .
45 And they build up the old .
46 Thick slabs of bacon sizzled on a pan that sat by the fire , and they mopped up the fat with grainy bread , washing it down with spring water .
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