Example sentences of "[prep] and they [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As they approached Jerusalem near the towns of and they came to the of olives , Jesus have decided ahead . |
| 2 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 3 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
| 4 | I wanted no children of my own , not because I disliked them , although I did — my step-sister and brother were the only small children I had experience of and they aroused no feelings in me but exasperation and distaste — but because I did n't want to be a mother with the weight of life and death on me . |
| 5 | Anyway , he gave them a few examples of the jobs he was looking for and they told him he was unqualified . |
| 6 | And our er workshop was open for and they got every assistance and every help from my father in these days . |
| 7 | The film was everything they had hoped for and they loved every minute of it . |
| 8 | In a house facing there and her son was one of then Caernarfon er what do you call them er militia like and they had to go talking with me and a little One of the first little motor cars like this . |
| 9 | The effect would be similar to something like and they did in fact publicize it in English , except that the verb in Arabic would be in theme position ( literally : qad publicize-they-it in fact ) . |
| 10 | As I said I I had been told that er he was associated with and they had been planning ar armed robberies in the past . |
| 11 | Well they were decorated were n't they , they were rings with and they had little tiny boxes , little coloured like little parcels sewn on . |
| 12 | And then what would we do with so that 's the first pizza that 's dealt with and they got a piece like that out of the first one . |
| 13 | He had used them before and they knew what to do . |
| 14 | Martin Kernahan says they 've done the RAC rally before and they fancied something different … their car is built in spain and the rally is all on tarmac so it should be good |
| 15 | He took them to Mahala Andrews , an expert in fossil fishes at the Chambers Street Museum to learn that these were specimens no-one had ever seen before and they included a species of fresh water shark . |
| 16 | Titch knocked the engine in and they began to draw slowly away . |
| 17 | And , and well I remember once there were a whi a few of the men went away to and they got over the stick , you understand what that means ? |
| 18 | This is about five or six receptionists I said it to and they said : ‘ Oh , no . |
| 19 | He switched the radio on and they drifted through the night together , flying over the miles to London . |
| 20 | And some sneaky feller who was in the promotion stakes as well , he found this out and passed the word on and they laid a trap for three fellers , one night after twelve . |
| 21 | There was so much to sniff at and they had already found two rabbits and had aroused a flock of partridges . |
| 22 | had a farm at and they sold that and moved to that one . |
| 23 | You know maybe a vacuum that needed to be filled by and They looked at the case of the quarry strike and it 's sort of so glaring obvious for men and women all over the country that it 's er really a case of er wo working men and women being erm well being trampled upon really . |