Example sentences of "of [pers pn] and they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't believe it both of them and they 'd smashed into each other |
| 2 | ‘ They know we 've always gone out with more than one of them and they 've always accepted it . |
| 3 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |
| 4 | Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road . |
| 5 | In those few minutes the colour had drained out of them and they had wilted in the glass like faded tissue paper . |
| 6 | Finding accommodation and getting to it proved as easy as falling off a log ; there were free-phone backpacker ads in the airport , we rang one of them and they had a ( free ) minibus waiting right there , which took all of us including bike . |
| 7 | Just because there were two of them and they had a knife at my ear , they thought I was their prisoner . |
| 8 | But Spitting Image they were making fun of them and they had a |
| 9 | Some of them and they made them Leslie and Eric and James , Jimmy and Andrew and Jim and Georgie and Jim and them , they worked in the Wintertime you see and made the barrels . |
| 10 | It was like a rubbish dump , and yet there 's good old erm , grounds man , as soon as the had gone , they were down there , there was half a dozen of them and they got it cleaned in two days . |
| 11 | The undertaker selected four of them and they bent willingly to the coffin , easier in their minds about the embarrassments of grief , because now they had something they could do . |
| 12 | But I actually think that you 've got access problems in both of them and they have to be considered because the do really affect severely or they could severely affect er the success or failure of the programme , and it 's these list of things which you think , now I 've thought about that or I have n't thought about that . |
| 13 | Endill noticed there was no wall on either side of them and they stood alone in the middle of the grass . |
| 14 | and I buy four of them and they do her a week and when they 're gone that 's it , she 's got ta wait until I go shopping again . |
| 15 | It 's only because she 's pretty and people take notice of her and they say oh she 's a bit fat . |
| 16 | they make too much fuss of him and they bring him back |
| 17 | As soon as Felicity had left , she let go of him and they stood side by side , as if waiting for someone to photograph and frame them , listening to the slow ascent of Felicity up the stairs . |
| 18 | Two friends of mine and they says er c can we find you a place in our that 's right love . |
| 19 | this guy got absolutely marvellous but they were full of it and they said we just learned it we did n't , we did n't go to school or anything like that , we |
| 20 | They bought half excuse me half of it and they lived in the basement , then the other half came up for sale so Peter bought the whole lot then |
| 21 | You do n't need to heat it they just there 's a bar of it and they pull it . |
| 22 | Mhm and he was held up because of it and they got Martin on the job and he wrote to hi er to the War Secretary , whatever you call it , you know Secretary of State |
| 23 | People there want to see more of it and they wonder why the Labour party will not repudiate measures which are designed to repel that investment . |
| 24 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |