Example sentences of "and they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A toweringly tall man , he echoed Citrine 's sparse , puritanical personality and they shared common ideals of public service . |
| 2 | Even though most of the working-class women had low skill , repetitive jobs , they picked out certain qualities of these jobs as satisfying by comparison with housework , and they shared this tendency with the middle-class women . |
| 3 | ‘ People born here before 1981 are as Portuguese as myself and they hold Portuguese passports in completely equal conditions . ’ |
| 4 | This meant that everyone lived near to one another , and they copied each other exactly . |
| 5 | They may all start off the same , but the principle of organization is inexorable and they develop specialized functions according to the needs of the whole . |
| 6 | ‘ Men were rescued after one of the rafts collided with a landing stage and they received immediate support from two of our support vessels . |
| 7 | Their cases were featured in a British Section Christmas card campaign in 1990 and they received 1,704 cards as a result of the appeal . |
| 8 | Moreover , manual workers tended to be paid benefits for shorter periods of time and they received smaller amounts than non-manual workers . |
| 9 | These were the first nuclear stations to be built anywhere in the United Kingdom for some time , and they attracted special attention . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , a large number of elderly patients do come into hospital with terminal illnesses or chronic diseases , including mental disorders , and they require long-term care . |
| 11 | Both these statements have important ethical dimensions , and they require separate analysis . |
| 12 | Moreover , union objectives and orientations are themselves of an extremely diverse nature between different countries and they require further elucidation . |
| 13 | They recognised that cases of alleged child abuse put great stress on all concerned , and they offered pastoral support to all children , parents , police , lawyers , the medical profession , social workers and anxious onlookers . |
| 14 | These statements suggested that schools and LEAs should engage in an analysis of the curriculum and they offered possible kinds of analyses , as well as prescriptions for the curriculum itself . |
| 15 | As a result they , they grow large , they grow aggressive , and they 're highly coloured and they fight each other for access to males . |
| 16 | Prop Dean Sampson scored first for the visitors after three minutes and they took complete command when centre Tony Smith struck twice to make it 18–0 . |
| 17 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 18 | ‘ Edinburgh citizens , ’ Mr Thin complained , ‘ were advised not to come into the centre of town , and they took this advice very literally . ’ |
| 19 | And they took another driver on and he does a lot of that , the runs there you see . |
| 20 | This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying . |
| 21 | However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania . |
| 22 | sort of track are contacting the people who done a very good job on the on the public footpath erm and that was actually going through our land , and they done some steps with erm you know erm wooden erm supports in them , er maybe in in conjunction with , was it ? |
| 23 | They disliked having so young a couple in the vicarage and they made that plain . |
| 24 | Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized . |
| 25 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 26 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 27 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
| 28 | AWARD-winning Belfast agency , A.V. Browne turned in a significant increase in sales , despite curtailment of advertising budgets last year , and they made another milestone in another direction . |
| 29 | Jay was now In Love with the impossible Lucy , Dionne went for butch crewcut teenagers , and they hugged each other 's hurt away and made love like some people offer Kleenex and brandy in times of stress . |
| 30 | They had to make policy on the hoof and they reprieved that place . |