Example sentences of "and [vb past] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While goldfish were flushed down the lavatory , she normally placed her other dead pets in a cardboard shoe box , dug a hole beneath the spreading cedar tree on the lawn and laid them to rest . |
| 2 | Empirical research in the 1960s demonstrated that even in the cases where the middle class had been initially progressive , success had given them a conservative outlook and led them to join forces with the traditional elite rather than with the working class ( Ratinoff 1967 , Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 3 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 4 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 5 | One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him . |
| 6 | Instead of retaining exclusive control over classroom resources , Rick showed pupils where equipment , etc. was kept and expected them to help themselves to whatever they needed . |
| 7 | When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest . |
| 8 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 9 | She called the switchboard and asked them to page the physio on call , and was told she was in ITU with a patient and likely to be tied up for at least half an hour . |
| 10 | In Levison v Patent Steam Carpet Cleaning Co Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 69 the plaintiff telephoned the defendants and asked them to collect a carpet for cleaning . |
| 11 | ‘ We interviewed five design outfits and asked them to submit plans . |
| 12 | The court usher appeared then and asked them to move out into the corridor . |
| 13 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 14 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 15 | She was n't keen on her three rather quieter children being involved , and asked them to return home from the farm if the W children arrived to play . |
| 16 | I went up to the union and reported it and asked them to do something about it . |
| 17 | The Arches exhibition organisers had placed a dinosaur around a corner and asked them to deal with it . |
| 18 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 19 | We asked them if they had vomited or abused laxatives and asked them to record their weight on a weekly basis . |
| 20 | The two of them clung together , soggily , hugging closer and closer until Rachel knocked on the door and asked them to come out . |
| 21 | The first one on our list tonight , ah , one seven nine , is for the young ladies that we 've just seen , with a production of their book , A Dog Called Mock , and I think that we er , talked about this , and asked them to come in , because we wanted to know the substance , and whether this thing was actually taking place , and what was , I , I , I do n't know what the rest of you feel , I think they made a fine presentation , and it 's obviously something which is going ahead , and I hope that some of you feel , we should reward initiative . |
| 22 | Towards noon on 5th October , Howard 's treaty Nez Perce scouts Captain John and Old George carried a white flag to the fugitives ' lines and asked them to make peace . |
| 23 | ‘ The holidaymakers were having a party and one of the prisoners went and asked them to keep the noise down . |
| 24 | While Jack and Kathleen dealt with the patient , Amy rang the switchboard and asked them to pass the message on to Dr Marumba . |
| 25 | We blindfolded girlfriends Dawn Morris , Sinachi Ubbar , Claire Barrack , Jane Gibson , Maxine Davies and Adele Rogers and asked them to sniff out their boyfriends ' shirts . |
| 26 | He therefore consulted the defendant sellers of agricultural products and asked them to recommend a herbicide that could be used later than usual . |
| 27 | She left his number with them and asked them to get him to ring , then made another drink . |
| 28 | For example , when Bernstein showed working-class children a sequence of pictures and asked them to tell the story contained there , they began so to speak from inside it : ‘ he kicks the ball through the window then the woman chases them ’ etc. ( 1971 ) . |
| 29 | One of the field commanders , Edgar Chamorro , continually nagged by Fernandez to get into Nicaragua and fight , at last decided to venture 30 metres inside to attack a border post ; heavy fire drove him back and , retreating to a pay phone , he called the CIA in Langley , Virginia and asked them to send mortars . |
| 30 | With this in mind , I sent my plans to the Special Air Service Regiment , reputedly the best collective authority in Britain on desert survival , and asked them to comment . |