Example sentences of "and they [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once spinning , they are difficult to stop , and they flash down the slopes in a series of great leaps and bounds , making a loud whirring noise , and travel sometimes for hundreds of metres . |
| 2 | They pop up and over it , and when they land on the other side and they slow down a bit . |
| 3 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 4 | And they pick up the tunes of the language . |
| 5 | You ca n't sleep you 're actually providing your own sleep deprivation and you say hey , next thing you know I really will be falling down the stairs ! but he does n't seem to get the joke and then it 's back to the cell and then the interview room with the barred , opaqued windows so you ca n't see out and they switch on the tape-machine recording everything as usual and it 's getting more bizarre ; they get me to do a Michael Caine voice ! |
| 6 | And that 's an it 's an ideal display see the mechanics working and they take out the cage and off you go . |
| 7 | They are n't cheap to buy or send , and they clutter up the house . |
| 8 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 9 | " Free ale all round tonight lads ! " he told them , and they put up a cheer of delight . |
| 10 | And they put up the flats , and I think I 'm right there , is about seven hundred dwellings . |
| 11 | They 're doing it there , and they go up the way . |
| 12 | And they always have a holiday abroad and they go out a lot , good social life . |