Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] and [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 2 | Bring them home and tell them that you 're taking them home to air . |
| 3 | I wan na get him another towelling dressing gown because the blue one he had on the caravan he brought home for the winter bring them home and wash them . |
| 4 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 5 | He shuffled papers , bringing them together and placing them to one side , face downwards . |
| 6 | You must tie them together and bury them under the great gate of the city . |
| 7 | There are , for example , points of difference between the two men themselves in terms of background and , very probably , of character and disposition which , could one know them fully and evaluate them properly , might allow a closer and more subtle comparison . |
| 8 | When pressing flowers with fairly hard centres , such as Christmas roses , it is easier to remove the middles completely and either discard or press them separately and replace them later . |
| 9 | Her father lay back in the big squashy leather chair and closed his eyes for a moment , before opening them again and fixing them firmly on his daughter . |
| 10 | When at last we got home , I would gently carry them indoors and put them into their beds , still asleep . |
| 11 | Yet his subjects had a right of resistance , of rebellion against him , if he failed to rule them justly and to give them due protection . |
| 12 | A counsel of despair was offered for many years , which , in effect , said , ‘ put them away and forget them ’ . |
| 13 | With help from a tutor I finally put them together and fitted them into the cubic box I was given . |
| 14 | Double positives are taken away making it negative and your H positives go in here , making it positive , so you get a you get a little a little potential difference , a little difference in voltage , which gives a Any any two metals if you put them together and make them a bit damp , or even if you do n't make them damp , you usually get a little a tiny voltage . |
| 15 | Er and er you 'd say , well try and get on old sheet and wash it thoroughly and iron them the p cut it up and iron them with a hot iron . |
| 16 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 17 | The grain was too complex and cross for him , the blade stuck , and in the same instant Isambard stretched both arms over the boy 's shoulders and seized his hands , forcing them apart and wringing them until he twisted with pain and let go both the knife and the wood . |
| 18 | Well erm if I 'm crystal ball gazing , I would hope that all the women in this country , whatever their colour and whatever their class , would have access to first-class provision for their young children , so that if they wished to work they could actually work in jobs that paid them enough and gave them job satisfaction . |
| 19 | Villa are at White Hart Lane this afternoon with Livermore saying : ‘ We have watched them closely and think they have a great chance of winning the League . |
| 20 | Colas sees them there and ties them to his own crook . |
| 21 | Wrap them together and wind them in and you 'll run the risk of abrasion . |
| 22 | When he had gone out , she gathered up their scattered clothes then folded them tidily and put them on a chair . |
| 23 | But it was too late ; large tears rolled down her cheeks and , no matter how swiftly she swiped them away and pretended they were n't there , they just kept on coming . |
| 24 | She had indeed once worked for a silversmith but had discovered that it was much easier to buy beads and acquire old pieces of jewellery , rearrange them artistically and sell them on market stalls throughout the country . |
| 25 | Declaring variables as local , creates them locally and initialises them to zero/null . |
| 26 | " We 're going to string them together and hang them on our Christmas tree . " |
| 27 | He had brought out his lists , four sheets , and had got them half fixed to the door when Allan knocked him aside and tore them down and then spent an hour , with James 's help , going down the names and telling the young men to their faces whether or not they were listed . |
| 28 | So the best thing is to put the piece of paper in in a wadge and then come out on the outside and pack it vertically and put them next to each other like that . |
| 29 | On that last night they finished packing their bundles , tied them securely and left them in the kitchen ready for the morning . |
| 30 | Quickly , glancing back to the tent , he gathered up the limbs and torso , wrapped them in the discarded skins , tied them crudely and gathered them into his arms . |