Example sentences of "and they [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | ‘ People born here before 1981 are as Portuguese as myself and they hold Portuguese passports in completely equal conditions . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Moreover , manual workers tended to be paid benefits for shorter periods of time and they received smaller amounts than non-manual workers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Areas of many square kms can be covered by aa lavas , and they present severe obstacles to anyone trying to cross them . |
| 14 | At their height , and they lasted four days , 10,000 troops were called out . |
| 15 | Concordances are often more helpful than dictionaries for determining the precise sense of a word in an author 's vocabulary , and they enable favourite phrases and tricks of style to be identified and catalogued . |
| 16 | Conventional neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine and noradrenaline are stored in membrane bound vesicles before their release from presynaptic nerves , and they influence postsynpatic cells by interacting with membrane bound receptors on the cell surface . |
| 17 | But they made Esther very welcome , and they passed pleasant afternoons by the swimming pool and pleasant evenings on the terrace eating salami , cheese , sausage and salad . |
| 18 | Diana met Sarah Ferguson through polo , and they became firm friends |
| 19 | He first met Minton in a top-floor club in Wardour Street and they became firm friends . |
| 20 | August 1915 saw them at Suvla Bay in the Gallipoli campaign and they suffered heavy casualties at Chocolate Hill . |
| 21 | Helen got away for one day and they spent nine hours together in the open air . |
| 22 | Technical experiments like stream-of-consciousness had died of inanition some years before , and they left few heirs ; and the poetic tradition of Eliot had been abandoned even by Eliot , who by the 1950s was writing little but plays . |
| 23 | The committee were in there , they had all their special seats there , their drinks ready right , and they said right girls , you ready now to start ? |
| 24 | There were about thirty men and they had two prisoners . |
| 25 | You know when all this court business is on , and they had two hours at recess so he went to look at the cathedral with Steven and mum mentioned it and , and she said oh I think I 'll go and have a look round she said when all this is over cos dad , suppose he 'll never set foot in Norwich again and I said oh that 's silly cos it 's a , it is a lovely city . |
| 26 | John and Elsie they were called , and they had two sons , Stanley and Gilbert . |
| 27 | In 1942 he married Eileen Cathcart , MRCOG , daughter of George Gibson Baird , engineer , of Tynemouth , and they had two sons and two daughters . |
| 28 | hell of a squeak of brakes and they had two vans and as you used to turn the corner by Swatons , the bollards are out |
| 29 | They must have been moving alongside us in cover , taking our measure , and they had two archers ahead , one either side the track . |
| 30 | Gabrielle 's relationship with Baldwin blossomed and they had two children together , Sam and Harry , but later the couple parted and she brought up the two boys . |