Example sentences of "and they [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They have something like 40 players and they are very competitive and very strong and they caused us a lot of problems .
2 and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday
3 So we asked council if they could get us a place and they offered us a flat at first over the other side , I do n't know what walk it was on , and they says , You can stay there until we get an house for you .
4 ‘ He was an expert on Russian affairs — as much of an expert as MPs get to be on anything — and they made him a junior minister to add credibility to their soft-line policy .
5 ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day .
6 When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday .
7 Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working .
8 My second Oscar was entirely due to Morecambe and Wise and they sent me a telegram to prove it : ‘ Stick with us and we 'll get you a third ’ , I think it was .
9 and they sent me a box back .
10 culture , they know what an agent looks like and they know what a tour operator looks like and they know and they know one or two other people around and so on and so forth
11 MANCHESTER UNITED and Leeds were first and second on this day last year — and they kept it a two-horse race to the end in the old First Division .
12 If it 's s something like that and they tell me the amount of furniture and if two thirds of the van will be filled with big stuff , and then they tell me there 'll be half a dozen boxes , I assume there 'll be at least four times that number of boxes , and if it 's still going to go on , we 'll do it .
13 Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use .
14 Even more than most movie men the comedians were men of the people and they sensed what the masses wanted .
15 There is a history of heart disease in her family so Doc D gets her cholesterol checked every now and then and they make it a policy not to keep cheese in the house .
16 And they sold me The Last Boy Scout .
17 And they bring us the tourain . ’
18 And they keep them a lot cleaner now .
19 They sought no patent ; they ordered him to give information freely to their customers ; and they denied him the reward to which he believed he was entitled under the terms of his contract .
20 ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time .
21 I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking
22 After I graduated from high school in 1984 I shaved my head and kept my hair short and they labelled me a skinhead .
23 and er I went there and they give me an estimate and erm when it went in the contacts she does was er no , it 's it 's more than we thought because the chassis 's twisted or
24 And they give them a gill of whisky that was supposed to be for their lunch you see .
25 the only reason that police get away with drink driving is cos half the buggers are Masons and they give them the old funny hand shake and its oh on your way sir
26 The majority of the people in this town is lovely people , the council and the police are first class and they give us a fair crack of the whip all the way .
27 The majority of the people in this town is lovely people , the council and the police are first class and they give us a fair crack of the whip all the way .
28 And they give us a , like a cheque type thing what you 've got to fill your name and address in back
29 And I mean the nurses and everybody , the doctors were really great , and they give us the best of treatment there , and I do n't think you 'll speak to anybody that was in the hospital that 'll say anything differently , they were really great .
30 Then you have a bath and they give you a towel and soap .
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