Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights went on ; we leapt up and pounced on them , adding our howls of ingrate triumph to the general confusion — ending the happy myth not with a whimper but a bang , while Addy , the fellow-conspirator , leant against the wall and laughed herself to helplessness … |
| 2 | Peter and Paul will want to remember their Mummy as she was before she got ill , and how much she loved and cared about them when they were younger , even if the illness makes here different . |
| 3 | No , he sa , he did , the , happen occasionally went to a neighbour and asked to them to borrow one , he 's not started again |
| 4 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 5 | ‘ The cutlets yes , certainly , since the Prince rejected them first time round , and asked for them later , ’ dredging up memories from the depths of his mind . |
| 6 | I was then attacked by six 109s and diced with them without anything firm being achieved other then preserving my own neck . |
| 7 | It opened its mouth and mooed at them . |
| 8 | Such an idea catches the imagination : stones that glow and sparkle as the curving patterns are chipped and pecked into them ; circles and cups and lines that not only symbolise some holy and sacred place , but that pulsate with the life of the earth dancing her spirit across their surface . |
| 9 | The conversation ebbed and swirled about them . |
| 10 | The first is to facilitate agreement between the parties on the settlement of the dispute on terms selected and agreed between them . |
| 11 | Curiosity aroused , the rider turned his horse and rode towards them . |
| 12 | They did not harness the deer to sledges but transported goods on their backs and rode on them , and they milked the does . |
| 13 | As the ball came to a group of cancer cells , and passed over them , the cells reacted in dismay . |
| 14 | As food particles are swept by , they are caught by the tentacles and passed by them down to the mouth . |
| 15 | He rose obediently and lolloped towards them . |
| 16 | The all-woman crew were bringing the launch in , leaping with fearless agility to the jetty and tying up efficiently , as though they had been born on boats and lived on them all their life . |
| 17 | In order to see things as the Trobrianders saw them , he joined their communities , learned their language , and lived among them as a member , noting and recording his observations in preparation for writing about them later : |
| 18 | He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear . |
| 19 | Who begged and argued and fought for them until they were free to go ? ’ |
| 20 | The Jews basically remained convinced of the superiority of their beliefs and ways of life and fought for them . |
| 21 | And I went by night and fought against them from dawn until midday . |
| 22 | He , or others , may have met them before , and fought against them . ’ |
| 23 | family and they put me onto valium , but having worked in psychiatric I knew the results of valium , so I I gradually broke them down and got off them but for six full months I could n't sleep |
| 24 | One of the ducks , who had taken shelter nearby , heard Uncle Alfred and swam towards them . |
| 25 | Willie got up from the table excitedly and moved towards them . |
| 26 | Robyn laid the plans out on the grass and knelt beside them . |
| 27 | As they made their way through the throng of people , boys and girls laughed and joked with them . |
| 28 | Hitch reached for the binoculars and peered through them . |
| 29 | She perched a pair of ivory-framed pincenez on to her sparrow 's beak of a nose and peered through them . |
| 30 | He had never seen any of them before , but the girl knocked on the window and shouted to them . |