Example sentences of "and they [verb] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pop , as the Japs drew nearer , had organised the men with one of our Mission doctors , and they hoped to walk out up the Chindwin Valley and over into Assam , but unfortunately for Pop his feet had gone septic , and at the end he was dumped on Myitkya airfield for a night and a day , waiting for a plane to take him over to Dibrugarh in Assam . |
| 2 | and they seemed bunged up you know |
| 3 | Everybody working for the Maquis knew about her loss , but no one helped — although their local information gathering was first-class , and they seemed to know just about everything that happened in Paris . |
| 4 | Titch knocked the engine in and they began to draw slowly away . |
| 5 | As he led her out on to the floor , and they began moving together to the rhythm of the music , she desperately tried to relax her rigid , tense body . |
| 6 | ‘ Just one more thing before we become part of a crowd , Maria , ’ said Luke as the door slid shut and they began to move smoothly upwards . |
| 7 | After checking that the two mirror carp were well packed in newspaper , he curled his arm around Molly 's waist and they began to stroll back up the track . |
| 8 | Parents with higher incomes had less need of child labour — anyway many children were now at school — and they began to spend more on bringing them up . |
| 9 | As it was dark by now , no bullets hit them , and they began to swim ashore . |
| 10 | He fell in beside her and they began to converse amicably , like old acquaintances . |
| 11 | But this time , everyone was on George Merry 's side , and they began to climb out of the hole . |
| 12 | It was like something from a restoration comedy as he crouched in his flat in Bateman Street and they began beating down the door . |
| 13 | Caroline took it and they began walking again . |
| 14 | She goes every evening to the post , ’ and they began to laugh again at what they saw as a mocking mirror of their own flowering . |
| 15 | As the sky lightened even more and they began to make out their surroundings more clearly , Fenella and Caspar both found themselves looking out for the signs that Floy had hoped to leave . |
| 16 | One-way street and they come littering round there . |
| 17 | Erm so they would have ch they chose to live there and they chose to move out . |
| 18 | It 's all right for me , I like tinkering with things , I can be useful , but the rest of them , well … all they 've really got to occupy themselves is grumbling , and they 've become really good at that . |
| 19 | We want them to volunteer to pay compensation to the offen Er to the victim , because that way we know that they genuinely have concern over what they 've done and they 've faced up their responsibilities . |
| 20 | ‘ No , and they 've stopped now . |
| 21 | Of course the initial treatment was five years ago , and they 've grown up since then . |
| 22 | And they 've written fondly about the Sixties : |
| 23 | Carter , who did not appear on stage himself , later said : ‘ The idiots who run pool in this country have had 20 years to get it right and they 've messed up . |
| 24 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 25 | and they 've done ever so well cos they did all Cos of course we had fine whether last week , they got everything done , and then it poured at the weekend but they were n't there , and now they 're back on site the weather 's cheered up again . |
| 26 | Yeah , well my local schools the girls say there 's a football team and they 've done quite well through to the finals so it is en encouraged in in local school of mine . |
| 27 | And they 've done absolutely bugger all about it . |
| 28 | Mr Chairman , I , would like to slightly and trying not to be parochial , but having looked at the erm , figures , I , I just can not believe that those are honest figures , I mean there are eleven hundred and sixty nine people unemployed in Craven Arms or something like that , and they 've lost over a thousand jobs over the last few years , and erm , very few of those have been replaced . |
| 29 | After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky . |
| 30 | Certainly not I mean the other issues as as Mr quite rightly says are air quality and the letter from the Inspectorate now says I understand that the measures taken by British Coal , and they 've moved on since September , the measures taken by British Coal are now to the satisfaction of the regulatory authority which for air quality is the District Council . |