Example sentences of "and [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took all the bones out of his spinal column and compressed them to nothing , she turned his eyeballs inward , she jellied his legs , she unplugged and rewired his guts . |
| 2 | They brought out large packs of cigarettes — then rationed — and shared them out among the men who were on the road watching . |
| 3 | The press apparently had expected Steffi 's invincible reign to last for several years — when last year Graf had a bad year ( by her standards ) the men and women of the press understandably searched for reasons for it — and voiced them . |
| 4 | He waved Rostov to an empty place at his side , and one of the aides drew Yuan and Alexei off and seated them among younger men . |
| 5 | Mrs Hollidaye took off her leather gloves and laid them neatly on top of her handbag on the pew beside her , straightened her hat and unhooked a cushion which hung from a brass hook beneath the shelf . |
| 6 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
| 7 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 8 | When they were bulging-full , he stitched them closed with a curved needle and woollen thread and laid them ready in a pile . |
| 9 | And laid them : thus he came at length |
| 10 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
| 11 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
| 12 | On every anniversary of the crash she has picked small branches from the same tree and laid them on Day 's grave . |
| 13 | But he put up no defence ; he simply raised his hands and laid them lightly on Gentle 's shoulders . |
| 14 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 17 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 18 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 19 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
| 20 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
| 21 | She picked up my underclothes from the floor and laid them on a chair . |
| 22 | Martha took out the two tiles and laid them in front of him . |
| 23 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 24 | Alexandra read the paragraphs through carefully several times , then cut them out and laid them in her desk with his two letters . |
| 25 | George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf . |
| 26 | And she cut a dozen and a half splendid blooms and laid them reverently in Sally-Anne 's trug . |
| 27 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
| 28 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
| 29 | Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker . |
| 30 | I tipped about half of the cash into the box and then took a couple of shirts from the second bag and laid them on top of the remaining cash . |