Example sentences of "they and [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally squeezed her feet into them and surveyed her image again . |
| 2 | I smiled at both of them and told his friend my clothes suited him . |
| 3 | Light though his touch was , she found it infinitely exciting and when his fingertip reached the centre of her lips , she opened them and felt his finger on her tongue . |
| 4 | Harriet had climbed them and had her key in the lock when she heard footsteps on the path behind her and a male voice called : ‘ Excuse me ! ’ |
| 5 | With our Masai translator and guide we lived with them and accepted their hospitality which was our biggest witness to them . |
| 6 | Gradually these courts decayed , partly owing to the jealousy of the Common Law Courts , which interfered with them and extended their own jurisdiction . |
| 7 | They had the terms already pre-printed for us and we had agreed them and secured our new property before we even received terms from the others . ’ |
| 8 | She smiled vaguely at them and made her way to Jack 's office . |
| 9 | ‘ It will certainly release a lot of the pressure that has surrounded them and made their personal lives very difficult . |
| 10 | She ran into them and pressed her face against his chest . |
| 11 | I could never of got them and got her hair cut cos she did do it slowly and got it level |
| 12 | The senator smiled broadly at all of them and lifted his hand towards the Frenchman , gesturing for him to lead the way . |
| 13 | When the Major returned and discovered what they had done , he galloped off and , knowing the country , was able to overtake the thieves on the road to Ludlow , where he killed most of them and retrieved his property . |
| 14 | The Shah could then have denounced them and ordered their arrest and execution . |
| 15 | Their fate should , therefore , be in some sense at least exemplary : opportunity was certainly offered to them , they had choices , at eighteen the world opened for them and displayed its riches , the brave new world of Welfare State and County Scholarships , of equality for women , they were the elite , the chosen , the garlanded of the great social dream . |
| 16 | The horses moved in their stalls as she passed them and threaded her way to the ladder . |
| 17 | A serjeant-at-arms wearing the royal livery stopped them and asked their business before allowing them through . |
| 18 | — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women . |
| 19 | He dropped the cigarette into the ashtray and held out his arms , and she snuggled into them and slipped her hands round behind him , hugging him tight . |
| 20 | Has he talked to them and recorded their verbal yes or no ? |
| 21 | It is already technically feasible to build ‘ robot ’ bank and building society branches , but such an exercise would be a disaster if consumers refused to use them and switched their savings elsewhere . |
| 22 | The small group of riders spied them and altered their course to meet the patrol . |
| 23 | She looked up at them and allowed her glasses to fall from her nose . |
| 24 | Aunt Margaret must have woken them and organised their washing . |
| 25 | She stood behind one of them and rested her hand against its curved back . |
| 26 | He would have said much more , but Brown Owl , who had crawled under the fence , hurried to them and put her arms round poor , scared Mandy . |
| 27 | Instead he silently walked the few feet between them and put his arms round her . |
| 28 | He veered left towards them and put his own jacket on the ground . |
| 29 | We had never consciously allocated days to each other ; it had just turned out that we had grabbed them and put our stamp on them . |
| 30 | ‘ On the occasion the Mayor was driving through the town with another prominent local man when a ‘ super sports ’ car without warning shot in front of them and scraped their bonnet . |