Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] and they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd broken in and they 'd better get out . |
| 2 | Two of my other men came running over and they had to pin me to the ground . |
| 3 | Mr Hill : Yes , now , during the war most men between 19 and 38 got called up and they went into the army , navy , airforce and fire-brigade or they had been drafted into factories to make tanks , aeroplanes and munitions so some things , areas , like farming were very short of labour . |
| 4 | Traffic began to peter out and they found themselves in the middle of extensive minefields . |
| 5 | He started singing then and they accompanied him . |
| 6 | Erm so they would have ch they chose to live there and they chose to move out . |
| 7 | But Rangers did play well and they have some good players . |
| 8 | Since then , numbers had dropped markedly and they conducted some research to find out how this had happened . |
| 9 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 10 | Much later that night , when the storm had died down and they lay at rest in each other 's arms , on the verge of sleep at last , Leonora said very quietly , ‘ Penry . ’ |
| 11 | Then I thought … well , as it happens , I did know that the old lady — MM Hamilton — had died earlier this year , and of course that could have meant that Dad 's job had packed up and they 'd had to move . |
| 12 | A keen breeze had sprung up and they watched as it chased fallen leaves along the pavement , blowing them into little heaps against the red brick wall . |
| 13 | Corbett left the tavern elated with what he had found out and they continued their journey to the outskirts of Oxford . |
| 14 | Their swollen feet had bled profusely and they had hobbled painfully among the rubber trees for more than a month before they recovered . |
| 15 | They discovered the olive oil we had left behind and they took all our olive oil machines . |
| 16 | They sang together , played by ear on the old upright that someone from the big house had thrown out and they had retrieved . |
| 17 | Oh I shall never regret Er I do n't know but I 'm just perhaps one on me own , but er it could n't have been better for because I was a freelance and er I wanted to learn and wanted to get on and they allowed me , they allowed me to do what I wanted . |