Example sentences of "and [adv] they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used this when they were one-night-standing and eventually they gave it to me . ’ |
| 2 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 3 | The verses of Practical Cats revert to the " thumping " rhythms which he had assimilated as a child , and perhaps they owe something of their inspiration , also , to the memory of Eliot 's father who drew cats for recreation . |
| 4 | Agent Vincent Shaw , who represents Miss Lindop 's book , tells me : ‘ I 've heard that both Mr and Mrs Major love the book and apparently they read it on their honeymoon . |
| 5 | She blunders into a magical forest , meets Curdie the miner 's son and together they encounter lots of gambolling hobgoblins who are planning to flood the kingdom for their own fiendish ends . |
| 6 | ‘ And always they place you in the forefront . |
| 7 | All of these are useful , and collectively they offer nothing like enough . |
| 8 | And George says she 's come in and like they ban her from going out . |
| 9 | These people crawled into my head last night and now they control me like ghosts . |
| 10 | ‘ But the board know when contracts are up and now they expect me to just sign for a year . |
| 11 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 12 | And when it 's pressed out of the grapes , the juice comes out , they allow it to stand for five days and then they put it into bottles . |
| 13 | So I just stood there while they shouted " Jolly hockey sticks , " across as her , and then Kevin started them off singing , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … , " ever so softly , to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne " till her bus came , and then they sang it at the tops of their voices as she staggered onto the bus and moved down to the back seat . |
| 14 | you see them with A's , they tend to do the A and then they join it at the top |
| 15 | You know they , they ran , they took the nurses , because the nurses home was a mile or , was it a mile or a mile and a half or something from the hospital , they had this , they took them in the morning and then they took them at lunchtime and then all the different shifts coming on and off they took them , and they had the schools run as well . |
| 16 | They 'll do anything to make you dependent on them , and then they drag you to the altar and call it love . ’ |
| 17 | And he cried do you think she would need a worm and he held up a worm , but he came and put this poisoned worm in the mole , you know that 's what they did , they had er mole er worms that had doped with poison , you see and then they dropped them in the hole and that was the end of the mole . |
| 18 | Sometimes a gets up to thirty and then they give it to the person |
| 19 | The band was down below and then a loft , a long wooden just like a dance hall up above and they just did that and they just they had tables set and then they removed them for the dances . |
| 20 | and erm and then they tried me on painting . |
| 21 | Well maybe they 've not been so they give them so long and then they cross them off the books do n't they ? |
| 22 | They did n't theek the hay stacks though , well Yes when er There was the tramp coles and then they broke them into what they called the big hay stacks but they were great big round great big |
| 23 | The Philistines carry it from their camp to the town of Ashdod , and there they put it in the temple of their god Dagon . |
| 24 | Yet when they started out few people in Britain had ever heard of them and even now not much is known about their ideas on marketing and how they put them into effect . |
| 25 | ( Otto once told me some unbelievably shocking — to me — tales about Jean-Claude and American soldiers , and how they paid him in cigarettes and chewing-gum . |
| 26 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ , so this is a good opportunity to look at colour mutations — what causes them , how they affect the fish , and how they affect us as fishkeepers . |
| 27 | It 's an indictment on our society that The Porch is regarded as their home , and we 're only open for five hours a day , and yet they regard us as their family , and what we the servers are for them is the parents that they lack . |
| 28 | In searching for an effective way of restraining wider areas , the German traffic planners again looked abroad for inspiration and again they found it in a near-neighbour . |
| 29 | They actually said then that they contr that they had an influence on how on the cost and where they bought it from . |
| 30 | They have no idea what " normal " is and therefore they invent it for themselves and may be very wide of the mark that other families set for themselves . |