Example sentences of "and they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they fought the fire until they were finally er had to go out of the tower altogether . |
| 2 | A little short of four Winds he stopped the car and they shared the remains of the picnic . |
| 3 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 4 | and they shared the same manager . |
| 5 | I 'm happy to see that the attitude of the C E C and of the General Secretary has changed radically , I would say , since last year , when it and they opposed the Liverpool motion , which also called for accountability of Labour councillors and M Ps . |
| 6 | At the end of one particularly painful lesson , Miss Hatherby did release them and they stalked the room stiffly , pecking at the furniture and flapping their wings , to Constance 's great delight . |
| 7 | The range decreased to three hundred yards , and they scanned the traffic ahead for a tall man on a small motor-cycle and wearing no crash-helmet . |
| 8 | Two guys tried to break in at three in the morning , and they woke the neighbours . ’ |
| 9 | Whatever their spheres of extended influence the gentry 's power was based on the land they owned , and they formed the cap of a local social pyramid down which prosperity spread . |
| 10 | Then Peter and John placed their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit . ’ |
| 11 | Some staff added other minor errors or disagreements but it soon emerged that some departments did not think that the report was fair and they criticized the general conclusion relating to their department . |
| 12 | So there was , there 's a lot of sections of the community out , out there in terms of the business community , who have actually indicated that the County Council should be spending more in terms of economic development not less , and they criticized the Commission in terms of identifying some of the reductions which they have made erm , as part of this year 's budget alone . |
| 13 | Then the moment came when the tow line was released and they savoured the eerie feeling of riding the rising thermals . |
| 14 | Murray grabbed him under the ribs and they reached the bottom of the stairs . |
| 15 | On and on they flew until day turned into dusk and they reached the big supermarket on the edge of the town . |
| 16 | Rain hoped it would not happen and they reached the coffee before it did . |
| 17 | The king 's mother and sister took her to their hut and they prepared the finest clothes for her . |
| 18 | That slaughter , when it comes , is reported in the baldest possible terms : ‘ … the people went up into the city , every man straight before him , and they took the city . |
| 19 | Well , the polis was brought , naturally , and they took the body away to the work house mortuary . |
| 20 | Penny only wanted a West Country holiday , not the least ingratiating thing about her , and they took the same cottage that his Mum had rented , and they stopped , he and Penny , for the same coffee and the same stroll round the monument . |
| 21 | And they took the thirty pieces of silver , the sum at which the precious One was priced by the children of Israel … ’ |
| 22 | Those who had attended informed their colleagues of the fact — and they took the hint . |
| 23 | William did n't know what it was — flood or earthquake , drought or famine , or a combination of all four — but they moved , and they took the fleas and the bacilli with them , and somewhere in their travels they encountered the black rat rattus rattus , and the drama began to move along a bit , because rattus rattus was a vagabond and a great little mover . |
| 24 | It 's the same as everything and everybody and because er they were satisfied with it , they wanted some more and they took the old lo lock off and put some more on what I 'd made , see what I mean . |
| 25 | Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron . |
| 26 | ‘ The first people to arrive were servants from Ipuky 's household , and they took the body there . |
| 27 | The Daimler was parked at the end of the towpath , and they took the same road . |
| 28 | Ellen Jebeau rose from the table , and they made the gesture of rising too . |
| 29 | He 's been a bit disappointing and they made the difference . ’ |
| 30 | Then I went to prison and they made the baby a ward of court without telling me . |