Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] and they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | fell Thursday night , she got up to go to toilet during night and fell , Michael was sleeping there fortunately cos he 's working in Yorkshire and she got a pain on her elbow anyway in the morning , so he took her to hospital and she 'd fractured and they operated on her , same day , two hour operation , I have n't heard anything yet have we , we rang |
| 2 | Then of course the girl said what she 'd done and they fetched the skull back and had no trouble after … |
| 3 | You know mother 'd used to come back so thrilled with all these slides they 'd had and they 'd had the local doctor as well . |
| 4 | I got dressed and they got slightly worse . |
| 5 | In 1986 the local authority became concerned about injuries which D had sustained and they obtained a place of safety order . |
| 6 | One had overturned and they stared in amazement as a swarthy-featured European lashed out with a thick bamboo cane at what they first thought was a small animal collapsed between the shafts . |
| 7 | Before you could say Maradona , Boss Man had won and they had gone in a puff of Deep Heat vapour . |
| 8 | It was ten years since Jacklin had won and they 'd adopted Seve . |
| 9 | I was the first British person most of them had met and they see me as a bridge to the outside world , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Fleischmann replied that with hindsight that might be true but ‘ in the situation we were then in , we were obliged to tell the university of the work that we had done and they perceived that they were obliged to go for patent protection at that time . |
| 11 | Sorry , if I could just clarify , I was actually at the meeting of Women 's Sub , erm as was Robin in fact , and they , the Women 's Sub-Committee considered the minute of this committee , and endorsed erm , in fact , Amanda did n't write until the meeting of women 's sub , because it was being considered by them , but erm they did n't add anything substantial to what was this committee had said and they did . |
| 12 | Michael Gough , my editor , works for me in New York and he said he went to get a key to get back in after they had closed and they said why and he said because I think that I will be back later than your gate is locked . |
| 13 | He had joked and they had laughed together . |
| 14 | They had retired and they lived down at Lowestoft so it was a lovely place to go for summer holidays . |
| 15 | By this time Stirling had disappeared and they needed to find him as there was only half an hour of darkness left . |
| 16 | It was as if someone had been trapped inside and had kicked and beaten the door — perhaps without success — until the power had gone and they had been able to drive back down the hill . |
| 17 | When the train had gone and they left the station Sarah seemed quiet and thoughtful and Anne thought that she was more upset by Terry 's leaving than she had shown while he was there . |
| 18 | They had tried and they had failed . |
| 19 | In the discussion which followed the Zuwaya argued that five hours had passed and they had elected no one : in view of the late hour and the irregularities ( another Magharba member of the local Assembly , doubling as an electoral officer , was suspected of cheating and was escorted out by police ) it would be better to hold the elections another day . |
| 20 | Game had passed and they had slept , huddled , more aware of cold than of the hunt . |
| 21 | She identified with the emotions of the young men she accompanied , including the mental agonies suffered by many after the conflict had ended and they had returned home . |
| 22 | She identified with the emotions of the young men she accompanied , including the mental agonies suffered by many after the conflict had ended and they had returned home . |
| 23 | To Llaneilian to got to get it they got they got together and they got married and they had ten children . |