Example sentences of "[conj] they and [pron] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , although they and their families enjoy a standard of living comparable to that of many white-collar families , their social worlds are still to a large extent separate from those of the latter , except where linkages of kinship , or to a lesser degree of neighbourhood , can span the social distance between them . |
| 2 | Many , if not most , good teachers are suffering from fatigue and innovation stress ; almost all teachers in state schools are profoundly resentful at the way that they and their schools have been made the scapegoats for the ills of society . |
| 3 | One of the many issues young people have to address in the aftermath of courtship is that they and their partners have feet of clay . |
| 4 | Even if the ethos does permit them to check out how they are doing , it remains unlikely that it will encourage anything more than a superficial sharing of doubts about what they are doing : about the disparity between their hopes for teaching and the effects , or lack of them , that they and their colleagues seem to be achieving . |
| 5 | Now they 're appealing to other families to install detectors — and say they 're lucky that they and their children escaped alive . |
| 6 | Some parents with HIV choose to make arrangements for their child to be adopted and they and their children have the opportunity of selecting and getting to know the adoptive parents . |
| 7 | The compilers of the whole narrative , working at the time of the exile in Babylonia , were convinced that the catastrophe had overtaken their people because they and their kings had not been faithful to their God . |
| 8 | There are also sexual impulses which they can not incorporate in relationships with their wives , because they and their wives think it would be too animal-like and demeaning to perform them . |
| 9 | BE safe , not sorry , was the message from fire chiefs today as they and their crews geared up for fireworks night on Merseyside . |