Example sentences of "they and [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In acknowledging other people 's active status , by finding out about them and their personal lives through informal socialising regardless of overt status , it 's possible to learn and understand a great deal . |
| 2 | These techniques are based upon the premise that anxiety results when a person perceives a discrepancy between the demands placed upon them and their personal resources for coping with those demands . |
| 3 | Their accession on July 22 to ASEAN 's Treaty of Amity and Co-Operation signalled an end to more than a decade of hostility between them and their non-communist neighbours . |
| 4 | Our younger son and his wife live near us , and we see them and their two children regularly . |
| 5 | We laughed a lot , made fun of them and their new outfits , and then , when nothing happened , we went home . |
| 6 | She uses them selectively and strategically to reveal the assumptions behind them and their hidden agendas . |
| 7 | Scores of people have been through them and their marginal jottings and exclamations are reminders of those who searched and those who found . |
| 8 | Yet such discrepancies are not caused by the logic of structures but by the messy and often far from inevitable ways in which people come to understand the world around them and their own practices . |
| 9 | The death of their mother , Ann Wordsworth , in 1778 , when William was seven and Dorothy six had cast a long shadow over their early lives , and had left them and their three brothers effectively orphaned . |
| 10 | By the time we 're on the other side of this , I know ( I 'm experienced ) , by the time I 've become really fond of them and their pretty ways , they will start to recede , irreversibly , fading from me , with the lightest of kisses , the briefest squeeze of the hand , the brush of a stockinged calf beneath the table , a smile . |
| 11 | Duty solicitors are subject to the control of the Legal Aid Board which requires them and their authorised representatives to have relevant experience and to submit themselves to selection by a local committee . |
| 12 | Your knowledge about them and their likely responses gives you power . |
| 13 | That is , we refer to our sensations as ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ because they are the sensations which usually go with our bodies being hot or cold ; and it is not the case that we call external things hot and cold because we think there is something in common between them and our bodily sensations . |
| 14 | Now they and their 4 children are trying to come to terms with what 's happened . |
| 15 | Of course , heaths , downland and coppice all need management if they and their customary inhabitants are to survive ( though we seem to have conveniently forgotten that though these habitats are manicured , they are not man-invented , and all have prototypes in the wild created by fire , storm , flood and wild grazing animals . ) |
| 16 | They and their elected representatives also have , implicitly or explicitly , a major impact on the way companies and individual engineers make decisions on risk issues . |
| 17 | One lunchtime Barry and Diane were sacked , and told that they and their three children had to vacate their living quarters there and then . |