Example sentences of "and they [vb base] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One-way street and they come littering round there . |
| 2 | It 's all right for me , I like tinkering with things , I can be useful , but the rest of them , well … all they 've really got to occupy themselves is grumbling , and they 've become really good at that . |
| 3 | We want them to volunteer to pay compensation to the offen Er to the victim , because that way we know that they genuinely have concern over what they 've done and they 've faced up their responsibilities . |
| 4 | ‘ No , and they 've stopped now . |
| 5 | Of course the initial treatment was five years ago , and they 've grown up since then . |
| 6 | And they 've written fondly about the Sixties : |
| 7 | Carter , who did not appear on stage himself , later said : ‘ The idiots who run pool in this country have had 20 years to get it right and they 've messed up . |
| 8 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 9 | and they 've done ever so well cos they did all Cos of course we had fine whether last week , they got everything done , and then it poured at the weekend but they were n't there , and now they 're back on site the weather 's cheered up again . |
| 10 | Yeah , well my local schools the girls say there 's a football team and they 've done quite well through to the finals so it is en encouraged in in local school of mine . |
| 11 | And they 've done absolutely bugger all about it . |
| 12 | Mr Chairman , I , would like to slightly and trying not to be parochial , but having looked at the erm , figures , I , I just can not believe that those are honest figures , I mean there are eleven hundred and sixty nine people unemployed in Craven Arms or something like that , and they 've lost over a thousand jobs over the last few years , and erm , very few of those have been replaced . |
| 13 | After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky . |
| 14 | Certainly not I mean the other issues as as Mr quite rightly says are air quality and the letter from the Inspectorate now says I understand that the measures taken by British Coal , and they 've moved on since September , the measures taken by British Coal are now to the satisfaction of the regulatory authority which for air quality is the District Council . |
| 15 | And they 've phased out cottonoid , which is a drag . |
| 16 | They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on . |
| 17 | And they 've given far more than but you or I will ever contemplate doing for God ! |
| 18 | And they 've gone up from outside have n't they ? |
| 19 | So out of that stalemate negotiations have begun and they 've gone on for three years . |
| 20 | they had beautiful clothes and they 've gone on for years like that . |
| 21 | Someone 's chucked it down there and they 've gone off and forgot it and they do n't even know who I am . |
| 22 | I 've had people come up and buy records and tapes and things and they 've gone back to their stall which is all they sell is records and tapes . |
| 23 | The memories I like to remember is er when things have worked out for children and they 've gone back home and if they have n't gone back home , then they 've moved on er to nice adoptive families . |
| 24 | Oh , Oh , I took the dog for a walk last tonight , and there 's some skid marks down the end of Crouch Road the there 's the and then they 'd taken half the road out and you can see someone 's done a wheely , and they 've gone in and done like this business and shot off ! |
| 25 | It 's like at school when they 're thinking oh no , no and they 've scored again . |
| 26 | They shipped a dreadful result a week ago , losing 2–0 at home to newly promoted Cobh Ramblers — and they 've scored just once in four outings . |
| 27 | And th I 'm sure every one of you have been in that situation where somebody 's suddenly popped out and committed themself to an overtake and they 've got nowhere to go at all . |
| 28 | And they 've got ever |
| 29 | It 's just it 's very very very well , put it this way , children seem to learn language very very very very quickly and they 've got very very very little data to go on when they learn the language . |
| 30 | But the Fire Service do n't declare who 's dead and alive , and they 've got very good personnel . |