Example sentences of "and they [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I listened to three new versions of Yellow Submarine yesterday and they range from the sublime to the ridiculous and they were great . |
| 2 | He said , and it 's really good , he said , cos I 'm , I 'm celebrating my fortieth birthday , he said , and I ring my boys , he said , and they listen to the same sort of music I do . |
| 3 | An and you take the surnames and they react to the first surname , I get race stories er calls occasionally |
| 4 | And they cater to the deranged grin fetishes of retired colonels from the home counties . |
| 5 | And they make to the same place to their feed . |
| 6 | On the other side sceptics point out that the Conservative share of the vote in the 1983 and 1987 elections is below that in the 1960s and they point to the several opinion surveys which show that popular support for collective values remains high . |
| 7 | It has the advantage for believers of saving them from having to invent their own personal neurosis , and they gain from the social nature of religion rather than the purely private character of a personal neurosis . |
| 8 | The only thing to go in is wash bags and they go in the small rucksack anyway , erm do you want these pink ones ? |
| 9 | They seem to ignore the caves in their tank and they lie on the open gravel at night . |
| 10 | The manager and the members of staff sit down and they agree over the last twelve months which of these bits of training have you had either on the job or as forward training they are ticked off , what do you need over the next six months , let's make a programme . |
| 11 | But more than 2000 were made and they appear on the second hand market from time to time . |
| 12 | They regard it as significant that the eighth and ninth century saw an increasing volume of exchanges not initiated by the state , but " privately-generated " ; and they look for the new wealth-creators among lords and peasants , finding in rural markets crucial mechanisms of exchange . |
| 13 | And they look like the fucking The Management . |
| 14 | They are a utility like gas , and they conform to the elemental principles of accountancy . |
| 15 | And they head into the 1993 campaign looking good enough to make it a re-match . |
| 16 | And they head into the 1993 campaign looking good enough to make it a re-match . |
| 17 | They 're afraid of , ashamed of themselves and they do to the old people . |
| 18 | They get to work , it started off one of these days did n't it so the lift 's out of order and they work on the top floor , so they 've now got to run up all those stairs , the energy is being used up . |
| 19 | And I have a responsibility to the Committee , you know , and they have to the Regional Board , even though you 're working in a section of the hospital that 's outside the NHS establishment , and not using Ministry money . |
| 20 | Later of course as up this early infantile attitude where you idolize your parents becomes replaced by a more rational and so on , but Freud 's finding was that this early attitude in childhood does n't get er abolished , it just gets repressed , it 's forced out of conscious because you true and of course things that are not true have to be removed consciousness , but they can not be erased , so they 're forced into the unconscious and they live in the unconscious and they feed myths like the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and all of us in our er erm in our er conscious see the hero as a , as a parental figure that reflects the family romance , the idea that once we were , we were a special child with very special parents . |
| 21 | They suffer ; and they wrestle with the big themes of good and evil , heroism and betrayal , man and God . |
| 22 | Earthquakes here are generated at shallow depths ( less than 70km ) , and they coincide with the high heat flows and volcanic activity of the ridges . |