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 | ‘ 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 | ‘ Men were rescued after one of the rafts collided with a landing stage and they received immediate support from two of our support vessels . |
| 5 | These were the first nuclear stations to be built anywhere in the United Kingdom for some time , and they attracted special attention . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Both these statements have important ethical dimensions , and they require separate analysis . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | Areas of many square kms can be covered by aa lavas , and they present severe obstacles to anyone trying to cross them . |
| 15 | They attempted to demonstrate how the Spanish influence was absorbed into the Andean vision of the world and they achieved considerable success . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 18 | Women and men in this group carry out different tasks within the home and they pursue different leisure pursuits ( men , for example , are more likely to be tinkering with the car or engaging in DIY ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Diana met Sarah Ferguson through polo , and they became firm friends |
| 22 | He first met Minton in a top-floor club in Wardour Street and they became firm friends . |
| 23 | In North America the pied Dutch cows were selected for high yield above all and they became specialist milk producers , with a marked difference in size and conformation . |
| 24 | There was fourteen feet of snow floods but the main thing about these people , they took their jackets off and got stuck in and they became special people because they laid the foundation of the welfare state that everybody else in this room g gained out of . |
| 25 | The rates were incapable of bearing the burden in their view and they expressed cautious support for a local income tax . |
| 26 | Erm let me make a few announcements erm firstly Longmans the publishers are producing a large and they hope definitive dictionary of the English language and in aid of this they have asked various universities to produce examples , recorded examples of academic monologue and we 've agreed to cooperate and that is what this little piece of electronic wizardry is in aid of in case you were wondering . |
| 27 | August 1915 saw them at Suvla Bay in the Gallipoli campaign and they suffered heavy casualties at Chocolate Hill . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | They made their own amusements , and she learnt to knit and they had long winter nights round the fire o and they used to go She used to call it , we used to go after day set , that she called evening . |
| 30 | And they had other leads now . |