Example sentences of "and [v-ing] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote again , a careful , stilted letter , expressing gratitude for the help he had received and suggesting they shook hands and called it a day . |
| 2 | In twenty minutes of sublime running and handling they dropped the proverbial ‘ bar of soap ’ just once . |
| 3 | I noted the small bunches of flowers laid in the Place de la Concorde in memory of Resistance fighters , and thought how especially fragile and touching they seemed in the immensity of that noble square . |
| 4 | Remember the value of getting to know your lender and keeping them informed . |
| 5 | These Awards are intended to encourage schools and local agencies to work together in involving young people in sport , and keeping them involved when they leave school . |
| 6 | But they all tightened their belts and after a great deal of grunting and squeezing and pulling and pushing they emerged , one by one , into the moonlit churchyard . |
| 7 | That summer the Allies announced that the families who had helped prisoners-of-war would be remunerated for the board and lodging they had given : a form could be collected from the town hall . |
| 8 | Almost everyone else in the world must have loved it , Benny thought grimly , all over the place people left cinemas humming the tune and wishing they looked like either Kay Kendall or Kenneth More . |
| 9 | On television last night there was some waffling about nothing and complaining they had n't been told . |
| 10 | On 16 March 1933 they brought in armed Polish police to protect their Harbour Board officers , and saying they feared the Nazis were planning an armed raid on the Polish ammunition dump , they reinforced their garrison on Westerplatte by bringing in 120 soldiers aboard the destroyer Wilia . |
| 11 | Some of the businesses were commercially successful , but only because those involved in owning and running them had invested life savings and borrowed substantially . |
| 12 | He asks : why should they work hard to achieve when by working hard and achieving they came out seemingly no better qualified than anyone else ? |
| 13 | They gave it shouting and yelling they meant it |
| 14 | Seven of the patients in the well grown group were sexually mature ( Tanner stage 5 ) , and excluding them had no significant effect on the median serum IGF-I concentration ( reduced from 0.67 to 0.66 U/ml ) . |
| 15 | This resulted in the children 's department undertaking general family case work and finding they lacked the power to provide much constructive help in many cases . |
| 16 | ‘ 'He that calls his brother a fool shall be damned ’ , ’ Terry said , and laughing and teasing they left the house and took a tramcar to Lime Street Station . |