Example sentences of "and they [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they fought the fire until they were finally er had to go out of the tower altogether . |
| 2 | Fluff continued to look after Titch , and even when she grew and became Big Titch , she never forgot her first friend , and they shared a basket , though she persecuted everyone else — feline and human — giving them no peace until she fell asleep , having worn out herself and everyone else . |
| 3 | Bailey was married then , to a nice girl from Clapham , and they shared a flat near the Oval in South London . |
| 4 | And they shared a laugh , dismounting together in the clatter of the crowded court . |
| 5 | Damian took her to one of the balcony restaurants , and they shared a dozen fresh oysters on the shell in the cool sunlight . |
| 6 | A little short of four Winds he stopped the car and they shared the remains of the picnic . |
| 7 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 8 | and they shared the same manager . |
| 9 | I 'm happy to see that the attitude of the C E C and of the General Secretary has changed radically , I would say , since last year , when it and they opposed the Liverpool motion , which also called for accountability of Labour councillors and M Ps . |
| 10 | Cadbury 's Roses verdict neat box but too much packaging and they cost a hundred and one P for a hundred grams . |
| 11 | At the end of one particularly painful lesson , Miss Hatherby did release them and they stalked the room stiffly , pecking at the furniture and flapping their wings , to Constance 's great delight . |
| 12 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 13 | The range decreased to three hundred yards , and they scanned the traffic ahead for a tall man on a small motor-cycle and wearing no crash-helmet . |
| 14 | The shots of the older child are termed cutaways , and they serve the very useful purpose of bridging time-gaps and of hiding jumps in the action , for instance the jump between the mother looking in one direction at the end of one shot and looking in another at the beginning of the next . |
| 15 | For them it is a matter of Christian commitment and they serve the Church well and faithfully . |
| 16 | Two guys tried to break in at three in the morning , and they woke the neighbours . ’ |
| 17 | This sometimes happens when managers must prepare for press conferences and they develop a superb presentation only to drop through the floor when an awkward press vulture homes in on the one weak link in the chain of argument . |
| 18 | The family name was Fuller , and John Fuller — who knew nothing of the brewery trade — decided to bring in a Mr. Turner and a Mr. Smith and they formed a partnership which continues still as the well known firm of Fuller , Smith and Turner . |
| 19 | They were all middle-class , aged between 18 and 45 , and they formed a carefully selected , statistically valid sample of sexual behaviour and attitudes across England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 20 | The original band of brothers in the primal horde were excluded from sexual intercourse with any women by their father , and they formed a group , based on homosexual feelings , to perform the act that no one of them could do as a sole individual , namely , to kill their father . |
| 21 | On Norfolk Island , John met Mary Ann Shears , the daughter of a convict and they formed an attachment that lasted for the rest of his life . |
| 22 | Whatever their spheres of extended influence the gentry 's power was based on the land they owned , and they formed the cap of a local social pyramid down which prosperity spread . |
| 23 | They 've announced a new sports car to be built at Cowley and they launch a new model in April . |
| 24 | Bell Labs notes that fault tolerance is common in hardware and in operating systems , but generally too costly for many software systems , and says that as far as it knows , these are the first general-purpose software modules , and they set a trend toward low-cost fault-tolerance in user-level software . |
| 25 | An unknown benefactor gave them £100 , and they received a legacy for £200 ‘ to be distributed to the full list of everyone in Fleet jail ’ . |
| 26 | Then Peter and John placed their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit . ’ |
| 27 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 28 | And they ask a question and somebody 's very open with the answer and they da , they just , sa expand on that answer and then , two or |
| 29 | The Madonna and Child , whose wooden effigies were carved in 1615 , were said to have put an end to the great plague of 1634–41 and to have performed other miracles ever since , and they attracted a constant stream of worshippers throughout the year . |
| 30 | One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock . |