Example sentences of "[prep] they and [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I composed a note for them and left it in the hall beside the phone . |
| 2 | He placed a little white enamel cup before each of them and filled it with strong black tea . |
| 3 | He had n't eaten all day , so he opened one of them and cooked it up . |
| 4 | Then , leaning forward , she picked an olive out of the glass dish in front of them and held it between thumb and forefinger . |
| 5 | So she went with them and thought it was great fun . |
| 6 | The three youths waited , debating within themselves whether honour had been satisfied as he took his attention from them and returned it to Marion ; and suddenly , as his eyes burned into her like a couple of lasers , it was as if the two of them stood alone and everything else was just background . |
| 7 | They started to run meetings in the house for the wives of the clergy , where Ramsey talked theology to them and mixed it with a lot of humour . |
| 8 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |