Example sentences of "and they [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though they did n't read much they had a huge library and they just left me to it so I did read without direction . |
| 2 | er I went in the office and he said er I 'd been stood there about twenty minutes at the window and everybody was flitting around like a bee from flower to flower and they just left me stood there , so I never said anything , go on the back |
| 3 | And it 's obviously that one was n't , just did n't want it or it was dead or something and they just left it . |
| 4 | I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly . |
| 5 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |
| 6 | I was we were playing this and erm they were really good because they 'd obviously played before and I could n't and they just kept it was really funny cos I kept getting like two and getting like two thousand or whatever and I want to do it really well , I 'm playing them again but they would n't so it |
| 7 | The magistrate told me I would have to sort it out with the council , Rotherham M.B.C. , and they finally told me I would have to pay them £45 . |
| 8 | Derek refused and they again threatened him that it was the only way to save his sister from being interned and himself from being charged with murder and gunrunning . |
| 9 | I 'd been right in thinking that he was n't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again . |
| 10 | and er he said to himself there 's something I , I , I do n't know what it is necessarily but there is something , go to a specialist and the specialist was very very good you know blah blah blah blah you want some te I want some tests , you know , so I had some tests , you know and the crew that were doing the tests they knew what they were looking for and they either found it or they did n't , do n't know . |
| 11 | They do when they came in , and they want the stall made like this , and they would say , you know , well you know , I 'm paying you to finish that off , you know , how , your next , your next priority to do is this , and they eventually told me what they wanted , and you know , you get on with it . |
| 12 | So I faxed this in to The Guardian , and they duly printed it , but any thought that this small contribution to knowledge settled the matter was dispelled the following week , when another completely bogus answer was printed ? |
| 13 | They had made a friend — a very good friend — and they dearly wanted him to come and see them again . |
| 14 | One was new and had come instead of his uncle who was ill , but the guards would not let him in because they did not know him by sight and they nearly threw him into the ditch before they would even let him go home . |
| 15 | And they nearly hit it . |
| 16 | The aim of the USRC was to create just such an impression as Disraeli had done — that Unionist action would be worth more than Liberal words — and they often quoted him with pride . |
| 17 | They were attractive-looking animals and they often allowed us to get quite close . |
| 18 | It does little for the already low standing of politicians in the public esteem for Major to say effectively that they did not have plans to raise taxes then and they only did it because it was necessary . |
| 19 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 20 | and wild beyond er , that one boy who was and had n't been used to that sort of thing , for his father had kept a small cook stock his companion that unless he has another basin of gruel he was afraid he might , he might some night happen to eat , eat the boy he slept next to , who happened to be a weakly youth of tender eight and they , and they impeccably believed him . |
| 21 | Many society members attended the Festival to watch the team performing , and they really did us proud as they moved rhythmically and gracefully through the Medau hoop-item — aptly named ‘ Whirlpools ’ — devised and produced by Jean , whose live piano music was enhanced by percussion from Margaret Charlwood . |
| 22 | Cos we did have a young man I say young man , he was in his early twenties , he used to do all that , and he left and they never replaced him ! |
| 23 | It would appear from investigations that this government in nineteen eighty four did a deal with the E E C to close down shipyards in future years , for which they received millions of pounds from E E C funds , and they never used them for the purposes they were supposed to be used for . |
| 24 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 25 | I did the minimum of work academically and got on with my sport — at first soccer — and they never bothered me . ’ |
| 26 | After developing his technique he was free from all his respiratory problems and they never bothered him again throughout his life . |
| 27 | And they never gave them back . |
| 28 | Chris said that always like that Christmas time because they have the pay talks in January and they always cut them back |
| 29 | Whenever possible I chose crews who liked working in the north and they always backed me up well . |
| 30 | Johnson and Thornley devised a complex crop growth model incorporating leaf area expansion and senescence , and they then applied it to grass growth . |