Example sentences of "and they [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Amanda Pennington might hear about it ; her cousin was in another House and they wrote to each other . |
| 2 | He co-operated with Walter Reynolds [ q.v. ] after Reynolds became archbishop of Canterbury , and they wrote to each other constantly , passing on gossip and information . |
| 3 | Reaching the hatch at the same time as the stranger outside , he collided with it , and they fell into each other 's arms . |
| 4 | I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin . |
| 5 | Lot nineteen sixty one , an option to purchase your honour for three hundred and eighty five which at that time was at a rate of nine hundred pounds a year and they went to this friend of the firm of solicitors and there of the document which doubly signed and was dated March twenty four nineteen sixty one but my consideration one pounds penny by thereby granted to for the purchasing of . |
| 6 | And they added to this evidence from contemporary institutions which were ‘ how we have always done things ’ . |
| 7 | " Of course , " he said , " of Course , " and he even showed her the corridor that led to the Ladies ' room , and she escaped , and they escaped from each other . |
| 8 | There was a library but Rain and Patrick did not meet there because her recollection was wrong and they blundered into each other in a passage . |
| 9 | A shadow seemed to have fallen over them , perhaps a premonition that they would never see each other again , and they stared at each other as though trying to commit each other 's features to memory . |
| 10 | Rourke 's thumb was still pressed to the bell as she opened the door , and they stared at each other , he , frowning , she with an expression of wary mistrust . |
| 11 | Khrushchev 's denunciation of Stalin had angered the Chinese Communist leaders , as they believed in rigid adherence to the Stalin type government , and they disapproved of any form of ‘ co-existence ’ . |
| 12 | Peggy moved her head in a gesture that brought her mother 's and Henry 's full attention on her , and they waited for some seconds before Peggy , moving up the hall towards the drawing-room , explained , ‘ It 's … it 's his particular part of the day ; he … he likes to see to her himself . ’ |
| 13 | They both had parts in Peter 's Friends , a comedy about a university reunion , and they starred alongside each other in the psychological drama Dead Again . |
| 14 | She took his hands and they looked into each other 's eyes . |
| 15 | Franca came and sat on the bed and took hold of Patrick 's hand and they looked at each other . |
| 16 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 17 | Allen drove a long stick through the heron and they sat on either side of the fire , turning the spit as they talked . |
| 18 | They had unwound their arms from round each other , and they sat on either side of the small table , held by brackets to the bulkhead . |
| 19 | And they nodded at each other , for all the world , Isobel thought , like a pair of well-fed penguins . |
| 20 | By that time the native peoples constituted a minority of only 30 per cent of the total population of Siberia , and they remained at that level until the end of the eighteenth century , although their own numbers increased from 288,000 in 1719 to 732,000 in 1795 . |
| 21 | He had n't thought out his internal organs properly , and they leaked into each other . |