Example sentences of "[vb past] and they [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing stirred and they breathed a sigh of relief . |
| 2 | he panicked and they had a hell of a time with him because he panicked in there , in the hospital and there was a , going berserk and that but you see daddy did n't , oh there 's nothing |
| 3 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 4 | Of course they knew and they had a pin in o in their hand to stick every hundred like that see . |
| 5 | A very tired and dishevelled Schisgal appeared and they spent an hour discussing the problems with him . |
| 6 | They discussed and they reached a conclusion ; as a result a new church school — Curry Rivel Parochial School — was built in Church Street in 1876 , the year in which the first of two Acts was passed making school attendance compulsory . |