Example sentences of "and they [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's unusual to go into a game with Arsenal with us losing two , and them losing three games in a row . |
| 2 | Asked about the SNP leadership , he declared : ‘ I do n't say that Salmond and Sillars and Ewing and them have all the answers , no . |
| 3 | He partnered Dwyer in the foursomes against vastly experienced Yorkshire captain Steve East and ex-professional Chris Bloice and they fought all the way before going down 2 & 1 . |
| 4 | The former bowled mean medium-pace , the latter with a venomous left arm , and they shared all 13 Australian wickets to fall in a low-scoring game that Waddy 's men won by seven . |
| 5 | Her little apartment had become their home , where she cooked for him and they shared all the daylight hours together . |
| 6 | A toweringly tall man , he echoed Citrine 's sparse , puritanical personality and they shared common ideals of public service . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Women were able to do the job for which they were hired and they cost less than men . |
| 9 | ‘ People born here before 1981 are as Portuguese as myself and they hold Portuguese passports in completely equal conditions . ’ |
| 10 | This meant that everyone lived near to one another , and they copied each other exactly . |
| 11 | The heavies clump downstairs laughing , and they jeer all the way down the garden path . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Men were rescued after one of the rafts collided with a landing stage and they received immediate support from two of our support vessels . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Moreover , manual workers tended to be paid benefits for shorter periods of time and they received smaller amounts than non-manual workers . |
| 16 | These were the first nuclear stations to be built anywhere in the United Kingdom for some time , and they attracted special attention . |
| 17 | Only the highest standards in church broadcasts are acceptable , and they require much careful planning and rehearsal . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Both these statements have important ethical dimensions , and they require separate analysis . |
| 20 | Moreover , union objectives and orientations are themselves of an extremely diverse nature between different countries and they require further elucidation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 24 | When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better . |
| 25 | As a result they , they grow large , they grow aggressive , and they 're highly coloured and they fight each other for access to males . |
| 26 | Years ago I used to do isometric exercises because they did n't make me puff and they seemed easy . |
| 27 | They discovered the olive oil we had left behind and they took all our olive oil machines . |
| 28 | And they took all the shandy out of the machine . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |