Example sentences of "and they [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Asked about the SNP leadership , he declared : ‘ I do n't say that Salmond and Sillars and Ewing and them have all the answers , no .
2 He partnered Dwyer in the foursomes against vastly experienced Yorkshire captain Steve East and ex-professional Chris Bloice and they fought all the way before going down 2 & 1 .
3 The former bowled mean medium-pace , the latter with a venomous left arm , and they shared all 13 Australian wickets to fall in a low-scoring game that Waddy 's men won by seven .
4 Her little apartment had become their home , where she cooked for him and they shared all the daylight hours together .
5 Even though most of the working-class women had low skill , repetitive jobs , they picked out certain qualities of these jobs as satisfying by comparison with housework , and they shared this tendency with the middle-class women .
6 Women were able to do the job for which they were hired and they cost less than men .
7 This meant that everyone lived near to one another , and they copied each other exactly .
8 The heavies clump downstairs laughing , and they jeer all the way down the garden path .
9 Only the highest standards in church broadcasts are acceptable , and they require much careful planning and rehearsal .
10 concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ?
11 As a result they , they grow large , they grow aggressive , and they 're highly coloured and they fight each other for access to males .
12 They discovered the olive oil we had left behind and they took all our olive oil machines .
13 And they took all the shandy out of the machine .
14 ‘ Edinburgh citizens , ’ Mr Thin complained , ‘ were advised not to come into the centre of town , and they took this advice very literally . ’
15 And they took another driver on and he does a lot of that , the runs there you see .
16 This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying .
17 Probably should have won it on , about seventy-five percent of it , but we were n't as good , we , nowhere what we should have been , but give them credit , they worked very hard and er well there was only one goal in it , they kept doing their job and they done that quite well .
18 sort of track are contacting the people who done a very good job on the on the public footpath erm and that was actually going through our land , and they done some steps with erm you know erm wooden erm supports in them , er maybe in in conjunction with , was it ?
19 They disliked having so young a couple in the vicarage and they made that plain .
20 He went down to and trained here and then he came back and they made all the maps there .
21 Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized .
22 peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border .
23 And he was going round and they made such a fuss of him cos he was Philomena 's husband
24 Now you could say that was perhaps maintenance , but it 's all been cleaned , it 's been repointed , there are new lanterns , they 've done all the paintwork and they made such a beautiful job of it , it 's really almost for the craftsmanship and the care that we gave them a certificate for that as well .
25 and well they used to make , and they made these they made kind of lots of tin things you know like different sizes and I can nae just describe what they , there was one had big whiskers down his face but er the rest was clean shaven , you ken .
26 I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets .
27 AWARD-winning Belfast agency , A.V. Browne turned in a significant increase in sales , despite curtailment of advertising budgets last year , and they made another milestone in another direction .
28 Jay was now In Love with the impossible Lucy , Dionne went for butch crewcut teenagers , and they hugged each other 's hurt away and made love like some people offer Kleenex and brandy in times of stress .
29 They had to make policy on the hoof and they reprieved that place .
30 Years ago Moran loaned McQuaid money when he had started in the cattle business but now McQuaid was the richer and more powerful man and they saw little of one another .
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