Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | People in the street must be approached and told that they are now editor of The Times for a month . |
| 2 | They jerked and spasmed when they should have Red Wedged and Fred Perried . |
| 3 | The two behind him joked and laughed as they went along . |
| 4 | A few of the wooden hangers had rusted wire hooks which bent and broke as they passed . |
| 5 | The Chaos troops fled and many were caught and destroyed as they turned to run . |
| 6 | Daemons howled and gibbered as they surged through the carnage . |
| 7 | Around Rincewind 's head mad , half-formed spirits howled and gibbered as they were sucked past . |
| 8 | The receivers disagreed and said that they needed to raise a further £22,000 and wanted to realise one further property belonging to B and L. |
| 9 | They each came and went as they pleased . |
| 10 | She no longer needed a constant attendant by then and Annunziata and Comfort came and went as they chose . |
| 11 | But the er last group of tenants found that that was a big priority and really pushed and worked till they you know to get it . |
| 12 | I mean sometimes medicines are certainly prescribed and bought when they are n't needed . |
| 13 | It does give them the opportunity to provide the facilities , and on top of that on top of classification we now have grading , where every aspect of that hotel 's operation is examined and inspected and they are giving erm the classification as well as the grading , which could be highly commended or commended , and to give you some idea , out of the hotels in this region , you know , very , very few so far have reached the highly commended accolade , and those that do are well worth it , you know . |
| 14 | Both events attracted large crowds who queued right around the shop and out of the door ; at both events the couple were cheered and clapped as they arrived and presented with ‘ bouquets of flowers and soft toys wearing yellow ribbons ’ . |
| 15 | Companies like 3M , Honda , United Technologies and Apple are providing the means by which new ideas can be recognized and commercialized whether they are insider or outsider generated . |
| 16 | Atkins interrupted and said that they certainly could make it stick . |
| 17 | Is n't it about time someone took a long hard look at the laughable regulations on what riders wear and questioned whether they benefit the sport ? |
| 18 | Councillors were jeered and heckled as they emerged and the mayor was given the Nazi salute as he drove off . |
| 19 | Gorbachev and Co were jeered and booed as they stood on Lenin 's mausoleum . |
| 20 | But now , Holly-jack and Silver Birch kept themselves in human view , and called and chattered as they ran , keeping pace with the horses of their newfound friends . |
| 21 | They are unproven and overexaggerated and they miss the essential point . |
| 22 | So I fretted and sweated as they stalked in and stared around with that disapproving , accusatory look of all cops everywhere . |
| 23 | Fitzroy acquiesced and said that they would be placed in a Reading Room on the following day . |
| 24 | And then , in a very orderly way , and with a strange bell-like tinkling , the coffin broke into a collection of long icicle splinters , that rang and vanished as they touched the earth . |
| 25 | It is , therefore , a phase of male sexuality which is purportedly being portrayed with the result that female readers are frequently belittled and diminished as they read about girls who are at one and the same time both the object of male disgust and the arousers of male sexual interest . |
| 26 | Those who gathered there were hissed and hustled as they went in and by evening a large and riotous mob had collected outside the hotel . |
| 27 | They all laughed and joked until they got to Holborn . |
| 28 | She 'd intended the pleasure-bound figures by the lake to be stylized and realised that they looked sinister , as if an architect 's drawing was peopled by a sideshow of grotesques . |
| 29 | Depending on the software and the linkages provided it is probable that overflow records will have to be retrieved and checked as they are encountered . |
| 30 | The landlady looked suspiciously at the notes he proffered and asked if they were Belgian currency . |