Example sentences of "and [pron] they [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ objective ’ language which Olson , Lyons and others are so concerned to identify , and which they incorrectly associate with written language , turns out not to be so functional after all . |
| 2 | It might therefore seem a rather odd choice as a label , but Wimsatt and Brooks 's reason for using it is that they view these analogical or metaphorical relationships as producing effects essentially similar to those for which the word irony is more commonly used , and which they also see as an important part of poetry . |
| 3 | In drug addiction and in the eating disorders the processes may be even slower because the drugs or the distorted eating pattern may cause more confusion and damage to thought processes and also because the sufferers may be young and may need to live through the emotional pain of adolescence that is necessary for maturity and which they earlier avoided by recourse to mood-altering chemicals , substances or behaviour . |
| 4 | You must allow that children are small , courageous people who have to deal every day with a multitude of problems , just as we adults do , and that they are unprepared for most things , and what they most yearn for is a bit of truth somewhere . |
| 5 | The first Not the Nine O' Clock News series had a sketch about Python worshippers but that team , while itself worshipping Python , went out of its way not to be derivative , eschewing silly voices , dressing in drag and what they later realised to be a misogynist trait in Python . |