Example sentences of "[adj] and they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are patronising and they insult us by not understanding — and ignoring — the real requirements of our time . |
| 2 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 3 | Perhaps the gas cooker 's broken and they need it mending . |
| 4 | Chest painful and they hold it when coughing |
| 5 | The chest may be painful and they hold it when coughing and lie on the painful side to keep it still and put pressure on it . |
| 6 | He is consistent and they esteem him , he is firm and they fear him |
| 7 | And er , that 's right and they told me what they wanted and er that 's right , there was a hundred and fifty-five locks . |
| 8 | I specifically asked if this upgrade would be possible and they assured me that it would . |
| 9 | The band were very supportive and they knew they did n't have to do anything untoward . |
| 10 | And then you get yourself pregnant and they treat you like it 's a sin . |
| 11 | Apparently they use to keep a little thing alive and they took it on the boat coming home |
| 12 | They have something like 40 players and they are very competitive and very strong and they caused us a lot of problems . |
| 13 | I should have been discharged earlier but I had developed a cold and they insisted I stay until it had completely cleared up . |
| 14 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 15 | He is consistent and they esteem him , he is firm and they fear him |
| 16 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 17 | Get the bomb squad out any way , but erm , the British army has got a lot of important that 's they way we would fight the Russians , take over a small hamlet , mortify it and that 's how the only way we would ever up the Russian 's grass nest , they take it very seriously , so what they did if they tell us how to do it , walks us through , show us what to do , let us do it and then they 'd make us do it again , but without any mistakes and that , it was really good and they showed us how to er mortify up a house , go , going through all the sewers and stuff is quite fun |
| 18 | She 's married and they think they 're going to make a holiday home of it just now . |
| 19 | After I graduated from high school in 1984 I shaved my head and kept my hair short and they labelled me a skinhead . |
| 20 | North Shields and Cramlington are different , and those differences are important and they help us to understand what is going on . |
| 21 | They come along with something sharp and heavy and they swat you with it . |
| 22 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 23 | It was on the biggest floating pontoon that was available and they towed it out into the lagoon in Venice , stuck a couple of pirate flags on the top and it was like a floating city seething with roadies ! |
| 24 | Because there are worries that it 's going to er , effect the outcome of this mad ref , referendum , you know they the farmers are sort of desperate and they think they need government help and they think they would n't get it because of the black government so |
| 25 | I know some women who are big and they think they look great , but I ca n't feel like that . |
| 26 | you get these jocks that get up there , big and they think they are so cool and then |
| 27 | But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury . |
| 28 | But because you 're still at school they think you 're dirty and disgusting and they call you a slag , but it could happen to then any day . |
| 29 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 30 | He is holy and they honour him , he is loving , and they love him , |