Example sentences of "and they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they fought in the pub over hot toddies |
| 2 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 3 | And they fought like cat and dog at times . |
| 4 | Apartments had been booked for them in one block and they shared in couples . |
| 5 | For [ fa ] these , after all considerations , are men of God and they follow in their indulgence and forgiveness the spirit of God . |
| 6 | Hazel stopped and they gathered round him . |
| 7 | But er to their credit er they got the contractors in and they commenced by putting up new pillars and new roofing structures and it took them about twelve months I think to actually build a new machine shop . |
| 8 | The triples did not add significant meaning to the document and they interfered with the flow of thought . |
| 9 | I ad-libbed for a few minutes while the re-take was set up and they warmed to me , which boosted my confidence and gave me the edge . |
| 10 | And they stabbed at him and caused his whole body to tremble as if in shame because , in a way , he knew she was right : his inadequacy to face his future was there for even himself to see ; he had considered volunteering in order to avoid the responsibility of making the choice either of going to University to read for a degree in English Literature or of just plumping for a teacher 's training college course . |
| 11 | ‘ Apple pie , ’ he said , and they set to work . |
| 12 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 13 | One of Mr Thomas 's conditions , supported by Mrs Noble , was that Edward and Helen should not correspond when he left for Oxford , and they agreed to this for the first term . |
| 14 | How kind of you , ’ said Felicity and they agreed to a tentative appointment for the following morning . |
| 15 | And they agreed to . |
| 16 | Since then the personnel committee have considered the report , and they agreed to the recommendations in paragraph 7(a) , 1,3 and 4 , but the third paragraph , 7(a) ( 2 ) to . |
| 17 | But Jean Orr , Professor of Nursing , Queen 's University Belfast and one of the authors of the report , emphasised community staff still had ‘ a lot of energy ’ for students and they agreed with the principles of Project 2000 . |
| 18 | Thus , missioners knew from daily experience the fundamental importance to deaf and dumb people of fingerspelling and signing , and they agreed with the deaf community that the language of signs and gestures was their own natural language which they should be allowed to learn as children and to practise as adults . |
| 19 | They understood what the black hat meant , and they agreed with the judge . |
| 20 | and they say pen and then they say one rupee , which is a tiny bit of currency , erm and they ask for pens for their school so that they can write at school . |
| 21 | And they ask for four for a very good reason . |
| 22 | He speaks to them and they separate into two groups , trembling . |
| 23 | It was to be the holiday of a life-time and they hoped to be gone for two or three months . |
| 24 | The principal concern of Edward 's ministers , as always , was to raise money for the war , and they hoped by making concessions to receive the grants the king needed ; but the concession of pardon for all debts of £10 or less was insufficient , and the commons insisted that they dare not grant a tax without consulting their communities . |
| 25 | Red dwarfs are faint , cool and small , and they account for 70 per cent of the Galaxy 's stars . |
| 26 | They have an arrangement with the University and they have their own buildings , and they collaborate with the people here , mostly in Engineering . |
| 27 | Most owners misinterpret these problems as grief and they overcompensate by giving their dog more attention than they are used to ; they fail to realise that it howls because it is lonely and insecure ! |
| 28 | Their madness gives them superhuman strength and resilience , and they fight with astounding fury and determination . |
| 29 | Pigment granules diffuse within their skins as they become excited and they fight with their colours , circling one another and flexing and quivering their fins like bull-fighters ' capes . |
| 30 | ‘ I listened to three new versions of Yellow Submarine yesterday and they range from the sublime to the ridiculous and they were great . |