Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] they [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It it 's a part of the county council I 've always taken a considerable interest in , and I support them in all their efforts . |
| 2 | Anyway , the people at SIS are big enough to take it and I respect them for that . ’ |
| 3 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 4 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 5 | And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case . |
| 6 | I had a clear view of them from a branch of a tree that overhung the water , and I watched them on several occasions . |
| 7 | I do not want to add to the controversy that we had earlier by saying that , yet again — and I congratulate them on this — our colleagues have obtained more in the English legislation than we have — The Minister indicates dissent , but I won the last argument and I am not sure whether he wants another one at this late hour . |
| 8 | Councillor is on record , in fact not long after taking his job , that he does n't care much for state education , he prefers , grant maintained schools , the assisted places scheme , which I 'm pleased to say , Lord Mayor , we do n't operate in this district and neither did the Tories when they were in power and I applaud them for that |
| 9 | It is envisaged that an analysis of such information will enable the identification of those financial , entrepreneurial , technical and regional factors which are most associated with the growth and performance of subcontracting small firms and which distinguish them from other more ‘ typical ’ small firms . |
| 10 | The first and possibly the widest of these is its use to indicate feelings of pleasure and happiness , of general well-being and even of personal security , which comes from an association between two or more of earth 's creatures , and which attracts them to one another . |
| 11 | The beliefs are seen as influencing , at least in significant part , the behaviour in which the members of the group engage and which distinguishes them from other groups who hold different beliefs . |
| 12 | Also , Lord God , we ask that you remember the dark deeds of any communistic so-called-interrogators , in this time of great upheaval in eastern Europe ; we know that you will not forget their crimes when their day of reckoning comes , and their guttural , Slavic voices cry out to ye for mercy , and ye reward them with all the compassion they ever showed to those unfortunate souls delivered unto them . |
| 13 | Oh I used to love sally loaves and you cut them off that way |
| 14 | She says you get new ten pound notes , they stick together and you count them as one . |
| 15 | Cos they go out to work at half past eight and you hear them between half past seven and half past eight |
| 16 | You got the band and you put them like that , and you twisted it round , did that and then it was a long band you see . |
| 17 | So — you listen in silence ; and you casework them ; and you set up case-conferences about them ; and you refer them to other agencies ; and you work up your notes on case-handling for the journals . ’ |
| 18 | This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans . |
| 19 | Now she gets them and she sells them for ten quid . |
| 20 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 21 | And she matches them with cheerful clothes . |
| 22 | Somehow , and from somewhere , a beautiful young woman appeared — this was no imagined vision — and she took them to some hot springs where they all ended up naked . |
| 23 | The bright April sun was full in her eyes and she shaded them with one hand . |
| 24 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 25 | and we put them onto that area |
| 26 | They wear muzzles at all times when they are together at home , and we put them in separate rooms whenever they are left on their own . |
| 27 | Many of our people sickened and died , and we buried them in this strange land . |
| 28 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 29 | Such stopping places are cheap and good , and we need them in this country . |
| 30 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |