Example sentences of "[pron] and [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | We introduced ourselves and told them we had brought them some food which they could share with their friends . |
| 2 | He turned my face to his and kissed them away — overpowering me with such a potent mixture of excitement and tenderness and yearning that I almost swooned . |
| 3 | But when she would have moved lower in her innocent foray Guy captured her hands with one of his and pinned them gently above her head . |
| 4 | He held both her hands in his and brought them to his lips . |
| 5 | He caught her hands in his and drew them over her head so that she lay open and vulnerable to him . |
| 6 | Daniel took Elisabeth 's hands in his and turned them palm up . |
| 7 | Rebecque brought the orders himself and handed them up to Sharpe who was already mounted . |
| 8 | He looked very pleased with himself and introduced them to Maggie and Mitch . |
| 9 | If the eagle did nothing and waited they would not get him . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw the other riders up beside me and outbraked them . |
| 11 | He repeated the words after me and wrote them down . |
| 12 | Members of staff have actually come to me and said they did n't want her in on the interviews . |
| 13 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 14 | Erm John 's Dream the National Playwright 's Network actually wrote back to me and said they 're quite happy to read your plays for a fee erm but I intend to re-write that before I put it in er for a reading erm Oh , I I sent a poem called Pleasure to Woman 's Weekly in June last year and I suspect they were actually planning to use it but they 've had a New Year 's clear-out and I got it back yesterday . |
| 15 | I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about . |
| 16 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 17 | Ruth would retire behind her screen to read them and stored them in one of her drawers . |
| 18 | In May papal backing was given to her conditions for return ; two legates brought letters urging the younger Despenser to assist the reconciliation of the king and queen , virtually a request for him to abandon the court , but they got no further than Dover where the king interviewed them and threatened them with death if they dared to publish the pope 's letters . |
| 19 | Every station sent in the reports in code and we collected them and sent them on to Bomber Command Headquarters . |
| 20 | So after they had fasted and prayed , they placed their hands on them and sent them off . |
| 21 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 22 | ‘ All her friends were knocked sideways when she rang them and told them she had got spliced . |
| 23 | Silver waved the map in front of them and told them they were stupid . |
| 24 | They met with the branch and discussed it with them and told them how it was out of order . |
| 25 | The Black Prince led a cavalry charge against them and forced them back towards the River Miosson . |
| 26 | Yet you do not have to spend very long with them to appreciate how India , then as now , has turned them into what they are , how it has brutalized them and forced them to anaesthetize their own sensibilities . |
| 27 | Zack took them and passed them to a man in the passage behind him . |
| 28 | ‘ Why are you showing me these documents ? ’ he asked when he had finished reading them and passed them to me . |
| 29 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 30 | Well I think we were very lucky at the start that were were just starting up in England and they were actually more into what we were doing than er to the extent that I think that maybe other record companies might have laughed at them and said they 've no hope of surviving but I mean they had the Furies with er Sweet Sixteen and then they had er about six hit singles from Foster and Allen and about six or seven albums and then they went down to Daniel O'Donald which became an enormous success so I think when that happened then all record companies kind of said well maybe there is something here . |