Example sentences of "they [vb past] and [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they played and as they sang and as they danced they made no mark on the sand at all . |
| 2 | The two girls were silent as they cooked and when they had to speak to one another spoke in quick , urgent whispers . |
| 3 | As they played and as they sang and as they danced they made no mark on the sand at all . |
| 4 | Each of us was encouraged to try out solutions on the board and you would ask other class members what they thought and whether they had anything to contribute as an alternative . |
| 5 | Specifically we set out to discover why workers produced the output levels that they did and whether they grouped together to control their output or earnings at predefined levels . |
| 6 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |