Example sentences of "and they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were really bad mistakes on my part and they cost us dear . |
| 2 | The boots had platform soles and they cost him more than his weekly wages at the warehouse . |
| 3 | I very rarely go out except to union branch meetings — they get me out and they cost nowt . |
| 4 | Women were able to do the job for which they were hired and they cost less than men . |
| 5 | And they cost cost a penny of three ha'pence one of these , they were called . |
| 6 | More than 17 per cent of all disabling occupational injuries , plus many thousands of less serious accidents , were caused by falls in 1990 , according to the National Safety Council , and they cost US business billions of dollars |
| 7 | ‘ The previous manager spent £1 million on players and they cost him his job , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Cadbury 's Roses verdict neat box but too much packaging and they cost a hundred and one P for a hundred grams . |
| 9 | We go into battle with them and they win . |
| 10 | We now reach the impossible position where if somebody goes to appeal against us and they win , they can claim costs against us , and we actually have that now , we 've got fairly large sums of cost hanging against the council , so if I 'd like to ask Les to erm I 'd like to have his support for stronger planning laws , then we could do the things that he says we ought to do . |
| 11 | ‘ People born here before 1981 are as Portuguese as myself and they hold Portuguese passports in completely equal conditions . ’ |
| 12 | Chest painful and they hold it when coughing |
| 13 | The chest may be painful and they hold it when coughing and lie on the painful side to keep it still and put pressure on it . |
| 14 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 15 | The largest size can be inflated with air to form a cushion , a couple of the others have storage pockets of other items and they hold liquids up to 70°C if needed for use as body warmers . |
| 16 | For [ fa ] these , after all considerations , are men of God and they follow in their indulgence and forgiveness the spirit of God . |
| 17 | And they imply divorce when what was achieved during the seventeenth century was a differentiation often conducted on theological grounds . |
| 18 | And they mate , laying their eggs in the shallow tepid pools . |
| 19 | The Brahmin priests are the highest caste in the system of Hinduism and they worship Brahma as the founder of their religious system . |
| 20 | He 'd want for nothing , and they worship him . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're jokin' ! ’ splutters Gordon , and they crack up . |
| 22 | Then you start at half past four I 'll go round and give them a bit of tea , all of them , you see , see if they 've eat , those that 's eat up horses eat up , give them a bit of tea and then the lads start on them and they dress them over till they sa well , well say , we give them till six o'clock wa to do two horses . |
| 23 | The shots of the older child are termed cutaways , and they serve the very useful purpose of bridging time-gaps and of hiding jumps in the action , for instance the jump between the mother looking in one direction at the end of one shot and looking in another at the beginning of the next . |
| 24 | The professionals use clapper-boards for this , but sheets of paper with the numbers written in felt-tip pen can be held up to the camera , and they serve just as well . |
| 25 | The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance . |
| 26 | For them it is a matter of Christian commitment and they serve the Church well and faithfully . |
| 27 | In addition , they decide the quantity of the initial pressing of their artists ' recordings ( for a new artist 's first single this would be around 5,000 ) ; they liaise with the manufacturing plant to ensure further stock is available if it is needed ; and they avoid producing stock which would probably never be sold . |
| 28 | The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time . |
| 29 | The heavies clump downstairs laughing , and they jeer all the way down the garden path . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyway , ’ she went on , ‘ then he went to portugal and everything changed of course you should really have some new blinds but they 're so expensive and they warp . ’ |