Example sentences of "and they [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They complicated the whole problem of obedience in a quite remarkable way , and they took up a great deal of Anselm 's time as archbishop . |
| 2 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 3 | Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’ |
| 4 | At erm , summer camp , when I came last year as well , there were sisters , and the oldest one was about twelve , the next one was about ten , and the next one was about eight and they they were half cast , I 'm not qu quite sure , the their mother was sort of , she 's dark , she 's sort of half cast , and they 've got , they all very very attractive girls , with such lovely hair , just corkscrew , it 's really lovely , and they come out the erm , swimming pool and they bring their their erm , shampoo and their conditioner with them , and do I ca n't just see this the family look . |
| 5 | So I , I rang the Power Station people at Norwich and they sent up a team to open it . |
| 6 | Once spinning , they are difficult to stop , and they flash down the slopes in a series of great leaps and bounds , making a loud whirring noise , and travel sometimes for hundreds of metres . |
| 7 | Eleanor wrote back wittily and they struck up a friendship . |
| 8 | They pop up and over it , and when they land on the other side and they slow down a bit . |
| 9 | And they came back the next day to build shelters for the Feast of Tabernacles , in obedience to the law 's commands . |
| 10 | And they went down the shelter . |
| 11 | Ranulf scooped his dice into his leather wallet and they went down the spiral wooden staircase and into the hall . |
| 12 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 13 | And they pick up the tunes of the language . |
| 14 | You ca n't sleep you 're actually providing your own sleep deprivation and you say hey , next thing you know I really will be falling down the stairs ! but he does n't seem to get the joke and then it 's back to the cell and then the interview room with the barred , opaqued windows so you ca n't see out and they switch on the tape-machine recording everything as usual and it 's getting more bizarre ; they get me to do a Michael Caine voice ! |
| 15 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 16 | It 's about some people they were in a car and they had an accident and they knocked down a boy , that was riding on his bike . |
| 17 | The girl mounted the steps to stand beside the master of ceremonies and they carried on a conversation which , though audible , was unintelligible . |
| 18 | And that 's an it 's an ideal display see the mechanics working and they take out the cage and off you go . |
| 19 | They are n't cheap to buy or send , and they clutter up the house . |
| 20 | ‘ Individually , they are very nice children , ’ says John , ‘ but put them together and they bring out the worse in each other — like football supporters . ’ |
| 21 | This was in the school hall , and they dragged out a heavy box horse and a creaking contraption made of wood . |
| 22 | Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject . |
| 23 | ‘ The biggest spanking you 've ever had , ’ she answered promptly , coming down to earth ; and they proceeded down a steep zigzag path to the shore . |
| 24 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 25 | " Free ale all round tonight lads ! " he told them , and they put up a cheer of delight . |
| 26 | And they put up the flats , and I think I 'm right there , is about seven hundred dwellings . |
| 27 | On my third shelf , I had put all my puppets and they put on a small puppet show for me . |
| 28 | They discovered it had been hired by a Swiss honeymoon couple and they put out an alert for them . |
| 29 | With the old snow and they go up the the hills up there and er go sledding and er they find it very enjoyable actually . |
| 30 | They 're doing it there , and they go up the way . |