Example sentences of "and [subord] they [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These originated in Northern Italy , where the pasta is traditionally flat and where they use a lot more egg and cream in their cooking . |
| 2 | Neutralizing involves giving the employee work where their weaknesses can not cause problems and where they get a chance to use whatever strengths they possess . |
| 3 | They thought that to do things by hand when a machine was available was waste of human resource , and so they put a lot of their energy into products that could be made by batch production . |
| 4 | They themselves had been exploited for the purposes of exploitation and although they made a stab at the psychedelic scene , it had n't really come off . |
| 5 | The other Great Reforms of the 1860s , affecting the judicial system , the press , and the universities , made little impact on the peasantry , and although they gained a minority voice on the new local government bodies ( the zemstva ) set up in 1864 , they viewed them as an additional burden rather than as a vehicle for their own interests . |
| 6 | The US Marine Corps was responsible for the United States inter-war plans for amphibious operations ; and although they did a number of landing exercises in the 1930s , not until 1940 were they joined in these by the US Army 's 1 Division . |
| 7 | Cycling officers were asked what measures they used to reduce traffic speed and if they had a cycling programme . |
| 8 | Final warnings were slapped on 15 of the garages and if they put a foot wrong in the next five years they will also be barred from further MOT testing . |
| 9 | If , in a time of reduced employment opportunities , unemployed people rather than more traditional seasonal workers are filling a share of seasonal jobs , and if they develop a pattern of working in this fashion , they could be penalised by these regulations ( see Hansard , 4/2/87 ) . |
| 10 | And if they hide a lot . |
| 11 | And if they go a goal ahead in Turkey , the home-team are going to kick hell out of them and hopefully side-line most of them until the New Year ( and god knows what the crowd will do — have you ever seen Midnight Express ? ) |
| 12 | ‘ It has n't cracked the shell , ’ said another , ‘ probably because people see the long list of issues covered and think , ‘ oh yes , and if they find a load of things that they say need addressing how much is it going to cost ? ’ |
| 13 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 14 | A county council has told its entire staff that they can no longer smoke in their offices , and if they want a cigarette they must have it in their own time . |
| 15 | And if they have a lot of money they probably do n't want to show it . |
| 16 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 17 | The problem in the doctors ' surgery , I mean you 've got people taking ill sick children round there with high temperatures and , and they do tend want to park close to the surgery , er and if they see a space they will obviously use it . |
| 18 | The new chairman upset visiting speakers by introducing them incorrectly ; he ‘ picked his nose and wore jumpers with holes and even wrote to a local newspaper saying that new members should be on s ; weeks probation , and if they missed a meeting they should be expelled ’ . |
| 19 | The last three may be combined in so-called grand unified theories , or GUTs , which are not very satisfactory because they do not include gravity and because they contain a number of quantities , like the relative masses of different particles , that can not be predicted from the theory but have to be chosen to fit observations . |
| 20 | Then he would ask the class if anyone had an answer , and before they had a chance to reply he would add " Mahaddie and I have arrived at this conclusion " . |
| 21 | The , they did an easy-trieve which runs every , every time they do a run they , they run and before they do a run they do an easy-trieve er identify those cases and then there 's a marker you can put on poll M to redirect , it does n't change the address but it redirects the unit statement in-house . |
| 22 | Every few paces they paused to peer ahead into the gloom , and when they reached a gap in the trees Devraux stopped and pointed . |
| 23 | And when they get a bit long too , yeah . |
| 24 | Through that system they learn a lot about agriculture and the farm stock as well as technology skills and when they make a farm visit are well prepared for what they are going to see . |
| 25 | And when they had a party , Lottie , who was Clive Bell 's cook — well , she did everything for him — she 'd say : ‘ There 's a party round Fitzroy Street ! ’ |
| 26 | Teachers provide the greatest encouragement for children to communicate in writing when they respond more to the content of what is written than to such errors , and when they share a child 's writing with other children . |
| 27 | And as they met a passion exploded between them ; a hunger that terrified Folly with its intensity . |