Example sentences of "and they [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they meted out some terrible retribution of people who |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It goes on to say and it came about that in thy journeying eastward they eventually discovered a valid plain and a land of Shinar and they took up growing there and they began to say each one to the other come on let us make bricks and bake and bake with a burning process , so bricks served as stone for them and |
| 4 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 5 | Well the council started then and they took on machines of their own . |
| 6 | Twenty five of their eighty staff have gone , and they took on nom apprentices last year . |
| 7 | Jack chucked her her helmet , stowed the emergency gear and fired up his bike , and in seconds she was clinging on behind him as the sirens wailed and they took off through the car park as if the hounds of hell were after them . |
| 8 | Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’ |
| 9 | I never work because it was a small workshop that I worked in and in the south side where I belonged , there was an awful lot of Polish people and Jews and they had all these wee furniture places and they made up There was quite a community you know , they were had wee workshops and cabinet makers and my boss was a Latvian . |
| 10 | ‘ And they made off southerly ? ’ asked Cadfael , pondering this militant company so well found in everything but horses . |
| 11 | I found them comfortable and versatile — in warm weather I washed and wore them immediately and they dried out almost completely within 20 minutes . |
| 12 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 16 | So I , I rang the Power Station people at Norwich and they sent up a team to open it . |
| 17 | And they sent back and now this is what they said to us in this letter I remember this distinctly that er if we want you to come out we 'll tell you but we regard your factories as our second line of defence . |
| 18 | All this activity alerted the Germans and they sent out patrols to locate the SAS . |
| 19 | Karl waved a hand , a brown-uniformed attendant gave them a respectful salute , and they sauntered out . |
| 20 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 21 | The king 's son mounted his horse again , and they rode on for seven days , until they came to the islands of the Black Sea , where there is such darkness that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 22 | He gathered his family together quickly and they rushed out of sight ! ’ |
| 23 | Eleanor wrote back wittily and they struck up a friendship . |
| 24 | To the right and a ten by eight to the left and then they went up a grade and they drove up same on both . |
| 25 | And they drove off into another amazing wall of water . |
| 26 | It did n't knock them and they kept on playing . |
| 27 | He had a bad leg and they kept on at him to hurry up . |
| 28 | And they kept on saying I know I know I know I know . |
| 29 | My father was a friend of Charles Julian at the university and they kept up . ’ |
| 30 | She just put a dash of bleach in the water and they came up lovely . |