Example sentences of "and they [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I live in a place where there 's a lot of old people and they come round to us and they tell us they 've been scared the night after |
| 2 | ‘ For instance , if you 've been working towards getting a client somewhere to live and they get it and they come back to you and say ‘ Thanks ’ , that is simply amazing , ’ says Frances . |
| 3 | I think just the fact that my wife knew what was going on , and knew the problems exactly you know , they had their own meetings and the food parcels that they could organize , you know I would n't have a clue how to go about it , the fact that various shops refused to have collection points inside , and they wrote off to the management of these shops and got that changed . |
| 4 | Above the uproar , Gerrard signaled furiously at the men with the microphones , and they fell back to the sides of the studio , pulling the microphones away from eagerly reaching hands , and Gerrard began to walk backward toward the dais , looking from side to side as he went . |
| 5 | Getting faster , steady speed in that bit , and then from the speed there which is steep , as you follow the tangent of that curve , it 's slower , slower , slower , and they slow down to a walk , and then they stop . |
| 6 | He opened the car door for her , hugged her as she got out , and they went up to her flat , his arm round her shoulders . |
| 7 | He met Pilger in the foyer and they went up to the room . |
| 8 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 9 | The water lapped about their feet , and they went back to the posts . |
| 10 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 11 | And they went back to their chuckling 's and grinnings while I made a scowling withdrawal . |
| 12 | ‘ Still — ’ murmured Juliet , and they went along to the haematology department . |
| 13 | He arranged an abortion which went wrong and they went off to the South of France to recuperate . |
| 14 | The hunters failed to find Ralph and they returned back to their fort . |
| 15 | For a while the man stood muttering and cursing as he clanked his heavy ring of keys , but at last he found the right one and they stepped on to the moonlit track which ran down like a strip of silver through the overhanging trees . |
| 16 | She ran , jumped on her girlfriend 's motorbike and they roared off to the house in the middle of the ricefields where they were staying , the bike slewing around in panic . |
| 17 | Of course , these things can happen really , er especially if er , one of two of the guests , I 'm not suggesting your mother 's guests er over-imbibed , but one or two of the guests do have a few jars over Christmas and they get up to all sorts of things in the house do n't they ? |
| 18 | so anyway , she hires so he hires this prostitute and they , they go upstairs and he gets a bit hungry so sarnie and they get down to the serious business |
| 19 | Children from the local primary school cycled the path to attend the ceremony , but when Walter and Ted started reminiscing about bike rides to Newcastle in the 1920's , their patience ran out and they scampered off to the village hall for their free tea ! |
| 20 | At each town the Captain had to greet the mayor and they tucked in to an excellent meal afterwards . |
| 21 | Devlin got up and they walked out to the terrace . |
| 22 | Nails replied with some very bad language , which somewhat alienated Shirl , and they walked back to the police-car in silence , and Nails was locked in the back . |
| 23 | Juliet laughed , and they walked back to the car . |
| 24 | At midday all the people from Amantani dress up in traditional costume and they go up to the two centres . |
| 25 | And they go up to it and they f as soon as they pick one foot up to kick the ball they fall over . |
| 26 | Now normally , fixed returns we do use , you know like guaranteed income bonds , guaranteed er returns , but unfortunately , if you look at the Halifax list , or the er any building society list , their fixed-rate returns are very dodgy and they 're round about sort of er six and a half to seven percent at the most erm if you tie for three to four years , and they go up to about seven and a half , maybe a little bit more if you tie for five years . |
| 27 | But it catches us with our pants down and they go back to and blame us for it . |
| 28 | And she 's just like , this really officious and then , she just said , everybody goes round , and they try and get the cheapest price and they go back to the place that are giving the cheapest price , whatever . |
| 29 | He inspired them and they looked up to him . ’ |
| 30 | I groped for Toby in the dark and found his hands , and they held on to me , and I shouted again to an unknown listener as I had wanted to in the street : " I do n't want this ! |