Example sentences of "and they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bailey was married then , to a nice girl from Clapham , and they shared a flat near the Oval in South London . |
| 3 | And they shared a laugh , dismounting together in the clatter of the crowded court . |
| 4 | Damian took her to one of the balcony restaurants , and they shared a dozen fresh oysters on the shell in the cool sunlight . |
| 5 | Cadbury 's Roses verdict neat box but too much packaging and they cost a hundred and one P for a hundred grams . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They 've announced a new sports car to be built at Cowley and they launch a new model in April . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And they revealed a taxi driver may hold vital evidence about events that night . |
| 17 | People take materials for granted and they deserve a little more thought . |
| 18 | They discussed and they reached a conclusion ; as a result a new church school — Curry Rivel Parochial School — was built in Church Street in 1876 , the year in which the first of two Acts was passed making school attendance compulsory . |
| 19 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 20 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 21 | I was standing outside laughing , and they took a picture of me standing there laughing . |
| 22 | The US factories had evolved into organisations that set out tightly circumscribed jobs , fixed procedures , absolutely nothing in terms of flexible working , multi-skilling , employee responsiveness — any of those sorts of things — and they took a look at Japanese cost patterns and thought that American industry was just going down the plug . ’ |
| 23 | They helped to propagate a language through which the working class could articulate their frustrations ; they provided radical literature , leaflets and newspapers ; they furnished agitators with greater financial means and mobility than those drawn from the working class ; and they took a lead in establishing underground organizations able to build links between workers in different factories and cities and to survive recurrent police assaults . |
| 24 | And they took a whole level off , they 've dropped it by a storey . |
| 25 | And they took a mouthful and urgh ! |
| 26 | But they won a fair fight and they took a tremendous lot of trouble and they really did a very good campaign , there 's no question about that at all . |
| 27 | Brian Clough 's teams are never short of resilience or adaptability , though , and they made a fight of it throughout . |
| 28 | His mother put her lips on his cheek ; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek ; and they made a tiny little noise : kiss . |
| 29 | There were two Jamaican boys in there and they made a point of crowding the counter , holding their elbows akimbo , so that Shiva was unable to pick up his paper from the pile in front of them . |
| 30 | They went to see it and came back and had a meeting one night in New York , and they made a list of the fakes . |