Example sentences of "and they [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they fought the fire until they were finally er had to go out of the tower altogether . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And they shared a laugh , dismounting together in the clatter of the crowded court . |
| 4 | Bailey was married then , to a nice girl from Clapham , and they shared a flat near the Oval in South London . |
| 5 | At the end of one particularly painful lesson , Miss Hatherby did release them and they stalked the room stiffly , pecking at the furniture and flapping their wings , to Constance 's great delight . |
| 6 | The range decreased to three hundred yards , and they scanned the traffic ahead for a tall man on a small motor-cycle and wearing no crash-helmet . |
| 7 | For them it is a matter of Christian commitment and they serve the Church well and faithfully . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On Norfolk Island , John met Mary Ann Shears , the daughter of a convict and they formed an attachment that lasted for the rest of his life . |
| 11 | Whatever their spheres of extended influence the gentry 's power was based on the land they owned , and they formed the cap of a local social pyramid down which prosperity spread . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Many of the cathedrals are former parish churches and they retain an attitude to music which is more appropriate to a parish than to a cathedral . |
| 17 | And they revealed a taxi driver may hold vital evidence about events that night . |
| 18 | So there was , there 's a lot of sections of the community out , out there in terms of the business community , who have actually indicated that the County Council should be spending more in terms of economic development not less , and they criticized the Commission in terms of identifying some of the reductions which they have made erm , as part of this year 's budget alone . |
| 19 | Martha and Tilda were in the position of having no spending money , but this was less important when they were not attending school and were spared the pains of comparison , and they felt no bitterness against their mother , because she had n't any either . |
| 20 | Governments are expected by the public to have ‘ policies ’ , based upon general considerations and principles ; and they delegate the execution of those policies to their officials . |
| 21 | The tremolo is a licensed Floyd , very close to Ibanez 's ‘ Edge ’ system ; it 's finished in gold , as are the no-name machine heads , and they match the finish on the guitar perfectly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Murray grabbed him under the ribs and they reached the bottom of the stairs . |
| 24 | Rain hoped it would not happen and they reached the coffee before it did . |
| 25 | Staff at tne nearby Bassetlaw General Hospital were alerted and they prepared an incubator . |
| 26 | If a man engages skilled advisors to act for him and they mistake the time limit and present it too late he is out . |
| 27 | I am not even sure that the Department 's officials knew , but if they did , and they took no action , they are culpable in the extreme . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | And they took a mouthful and urgh ! |
| 30 | 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 . |