Example sentences of "and [subord] they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need a visa and have failed to obtain one , Rosita likewise , and so they put us behind bars like prisoners . |
| 2 | Luckily the bus itself was delayed , and so they got themselves on board . |
| 3 | She had thoughtful parents , though , who thought the Grand Canyon was for real and so they put her on the waiting list . |
| 4 | At that time the DPKR had only 7,000 members and although they dissociated themselves from the Russian Communist Party , many were still members of the CPSU . |
| 5 | And although they maintained none of County Durham 's 5,000 teachers would lose their jobs the higher than expected pay deal will make the county dig into its reserves to pay for the salary hike . |
| 6 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 7 | And if they tell her to bed down in a flea-pit , that 's what she 'll do . |
| 8 | And if they ask you to it probably means they 're in trouble anyway . |
| 9 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 10 | And if they took him to hospital he 'd just do the same thing again and again , until his family gave in . |
| 11 | And if they wanted him to be boring then that would be the performance that he would offer . |
| 12 | They are immortal because of the cool temperature on Earth Six and because they eat nothing but fruit , a cooling food . |
| 13 | During field-work there was only one incident related to sexual abuse , and this was dealt with by policemen , and while they showed something of a blasé attitude towards it in feeling that the victim was ‘ hardly touched ’ and the offender ‘ did n't do anything anyway ’ ( FN 2/11/87 , pp. 5–6 ) , they pursued the case thoroughly . |
| 14 | And while they force you to be what you do not want to be , they are also teaching you how to be parents . |
| 15 | And when they lay me in my wedding dress on that table , I 'll have my revenge on him ! ’ |
| 16 | And when they cut it with scythes , did they gather it ? |
| 17 | Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect . |
| 18 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 19 | And when they banned me from playing cricket for a month , they actually did me a favour . |
| 20 | And when they rang me about the killing and somebody said , ‘ your friend 's been murdered , ’ I said , ‘ You 're talking rubbish . ’ ’ |
| 21 | Though the Japanese are by no means a lazy or an idle race , and though they possess none of that apathetic indolence common to those Eastern races who dwell beneath a tropical sun , still all notions of speed , haste or flurry are utterly foreign to their nature . |