Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] and they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were glad to see me and they shook me by the hand and one of them said : |
| 2 | You have to drive them and they 've nothing on their heads . |
| 3 | I made four locks for the gates on Lord 's cricket ground er and when I 'm telling you this , and practically without exception , they must 've er got to know me and they come for what they wanted . |
| 4 | When a message came from a friend in Prague that their mother had disappeared , Miss Harder did everything she could to console them and they became very close . |
| 5 | In public , three times a week , he held a solemn consistory — which had previously fallen into disuse — in which he deputed the examination of lesser cases to others , while the major ones he dealt with himself so subtly and wisely that all wondered at his precision and skill and many educated and legally-learned men came to the Roman Church to hear him and they learnt more in his consistories than they had learnt in the schools , especially when they heard him give sentence . |
| 6 | She found a staff nurse to help her and they washed him out , finding nothing as she had expected , but she sent a sample of the stomach contents off for analysis anyway . |
| 7 | 14 Remember the students want to respect you and they want to learn ; you start off a class with a great fund of goodwill . |
| 8 | One strove to fight them and they vanished . |
| 9 | Owen rose to greet him and they embraced like long-lost brothers . |
| 10 | Shostakovich summed up his colleague 's fatal misconception : ‘ He came to Moscow to teach them and they started teaching him . ’ |
| 11 | People get to love you and they rely on you so when they need you , you ca n't turn your back on them . |
| 12 | A lot of them brought bacon and eggs but you had to cook it and they had to leave the pans and things clean when they left — so it was always a rush job and all policemen suffered from bad stomachs . |
| 13 | Be bec , the appalling thing is that they 're quite , they 're quite happy to spread this pain on those who are in the least position to burden it and they believe quite rightly and this , this is the I think , that exists between socialism and and and the Conservatism in that sense that whereas erm , you know opinion surveys bear out the fact that people are quite happy , those who can afford it to pay a little bit extra in terms of direct taxation for those service provisions , which are absolutely vital and these surveys have been conducted in public and they have been made quite er er open to the press , er , just before the last election particularly for the health authority and so forth . |
| 14 | He turned to face her and they rested their foreheads together like brother and sister . |
| 15 | Not if they can afford to pay it and they do n't get too much , it 's interest free credit on fridge freezer |
| 16 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 17 | They were afraid to touch her and they did not know what to do . |
| 18 | He could do nothing to persuade them to join him and they had left it too late . |
| 19 | He got Ninagawa to join him and they have since produced an extraordinary row of classics , welding the individual psychological realism of European theatre to the formality of Kabuki theatre . |
| 20 | The producer of the video says preventing car crime is better than trying to cure it and they 've drawn on the real experiences of youngsters . |
| 21 | The fierce Pathans saw this missionary in his little wooden home about a mile away and they said : ‘ The British sent troops to kill us and they failed . |
| 22 | Then she ran to find Ferdinando to tell him and they embraced and it was he who said , ‘ She is an angel ! ’ of Mrs Browning and Wilson realised she had expressed not a word of gratitude . |