Example sentences of "and they [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time . |
| 2 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 3 | They do not understand the basis of the argument and they ask me to explain the Government 's position . |
| 4 | I have passed on to them the teaching and worship tapes sent on to e here and they have asked me to thank you sincerely and they ask you to continue to pray for them . |
| 5 | And yet they recognize unions and they ask you to apply your , er to yourself . |
| 6 | Mullingar was passed and they felt they had hardly said a word to one another . |
| 7 | When he again tried to speak to her at her friend 's home where she was staying , Mary called the police and they persuaded him to leave . |
| 8 | We stopped at the airport and they says who wants coffee or who wants tea ? |
| 9 | Now they have aerial wires attached to the masts and they made me think they must intend to use her for some sort of electronic surveillance . |
| 10 | Another time I went to St Kew primary , which is really small and right out in the middle of nowhere , and they made me feel really welcome . |
| 11 | ‘ They were really kind to me and they made me feel that they genuinely cared . ’ |
| 12 | they took ya in , into their home and , and they made you feel like part of the family |
| 13 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 14 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 15 | Yeah er and they made you wait wait an hour , duck . |
| 16 | Barnsley always looked threatening on the aerial front and they made it count when Brendan O'Connell arrived at the back post to bury a Wayne Biggins cross with a power header . |
| 17 | He made no effort to move out of their way and they made none to speak . |
| 18 | He told the citizens of Clermont , and they advised him to buy the office . |
| 19 | Then to the horror of the students the professor dipped his finger into the samples one by one and they saw him put it to his lips . |
| 20 | Well I went outside and I shut my gates and they saw I mean , er I was looking at them as I was shutting the gate , there 's only three of them ! |
| 21 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 22 | And then she came back er , just before lunchtime I think and then they tried to , they sat Kirsty and and Claire down , and they told them to make up and talk to each other and in the end they started having a fight ! |
| 23 | I 've seen the Fire guys and they told me to ask for an Inspector Ball . |
| 24 | I went to see them as well and they told me to fill in another form . |
| 25 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 26 | I fetched the rum and they told me to go away . |
| 27 | I gave him the money and they told me to walk on and not look back because they would be following me . |
| 28 | Still they were a generous , friendly bunch and they told me to make myself at home until the editorial meeting later in the afternoon . |
| 29 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 30 | Wee boy playing with the toys out there and they told him to shut up . |