Example sentences of "[noun sg] and they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Rosary , Mona and Sheila made tea and they all slipped away early . |
| 2 | I handed Mary and Dad their cups of sweet tea and they both smiled . |
| 3 | Jane held on with both hands , gazing ahead at Molly 's legs , counting every step , praying she would reach the top before the whole thing collapsed beneath their weight and they all fell , helpless , into the water below . |
| 4 | The old man got into the car and they all drove to the competition . |
| 5 | Well , they were built pre-war , and they were still in good condition and they each had half an acre of land . |
| 6 | Markby joined her on the further side and they both stopped to watch as their bovine companions lumbered up and stood in a row staring at them expectantly , tossing muddy heads . |
| 7 | back to work and they all went |
| 8 | In La Fille Mal Gardée Mother Simone does this when she triumphantly finishes her Clog Dance on the arms of her more graceful neighbours , just as all the guests but Alain do after the Betrothal and they all dance out , arms linked to celebrate . |
| 9 | And the they used to when they would speak Orcadian among their their pals and then when they when they were playing games all the kids the Orcadian ones whether they were Orcadian or not would adopt this American drawl and they all spoke like that . |
| 10 | Her whole point in life is that people criticize her because she does erm she can only actually look after a very small percentage of the people in Calcutta who need help and they all sort of say , Well she does that bit but what about the rest of them ? |
| 11 | Norah attended ballet classes and studied Ukrainian dancing and they both attended a special school for Ukrainian children on Saturday mornings . |
| 12 | I saw a picture of the town council and they all looked like members of Abba . |
| 13 | Having met a cat , a teddy , a hen and an uncle , he finally finds a Mummy without a child and they all live hapily together until the uncle reminds him that he has no Daddy … |
| 14 | They put it on every question and they all come out of the exam and they say , Oh it was fifty degrees wa No , it was all the way , it was three hundred and ten . |
| 15 | Are you gon na sort of read out the question and they each gon na scribble down their answer . |
| 16 | It 's not surprising that an unemployed 17 year old pipe-fitter , like the one I spoke to called Chas , has an English Lion tattooed on his forearm and wears a White Power badge : — ‘ A Rasta can wear a Black is Beautiful badge and They all sit up and start clapping ’ , Chas told me . |
| 17 | and they , that 's why we got the equipment of course and they all support it and Jim supports it |
| 18 | Years of dust and cobwebs had settled on their fur and skin and they all seemed to be snarling or growling . |
| 19 | He rushed to tell Mum and they both heard the pattering noise . |
| 20 | John produced the remains of a bottle of whisky and they all had a dram to celebrate . |
| 21 | Them that caused this war and them that 's getting fat on it should be made to fight it out between them , not our fellers . ’ |
| 22 | But he smiles back — of course — because he ca n't do anything else for he is ill at ease , they are ill at ease and they all drown in smiles that suffocate . |
| 23 | And the hard chill crept through her bones as her husband 's hand crept into the blonde student 's blouse and they both smiled . |
| 24 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 25 | Cranston reluctantly conceded his point and they both left the tavern and walked back to collect their horses . |
| 26 | Now an unpleasant smell in a wooden structure is due to one of three things ; drains , mice or rot and they all smell very similar . |
| 27 | I took my medal and they all cried . |
| 28 | Er about this strike and er but time went on and it became obvious that er nobody were going to win only the boss like this boss , course he was he was scratching through , and so they called the strike off and every person who worked at er every firm had a meeting and they all decided to take so many and every firm took so many of the workers and so nobody was ever unemployed as a consequence of the strike which was very very good . |
| 29 | All I know is that they all supported the poll tax and they all voted for the guillotines that carried through the poll tax legislation . |
| 30 | All day and then he got all to do at lunch time yeah they kept it up all the day , they had separate play time , they had had to eat their lunch in the class room all they were allowed was a piece of fruit , a bread and water and they all had to have , you know , they had a bread roll supplied by the school an a an apple I think And Jan made them write out their names and some of them could n't write their name ! |