Example sentences of "and [subord] the [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although the police stress they want to educate bad drivers as much as land them in court , they say they wo n't hesitate to prosecute those who deserve it . |
| 2 | And until the laws change they admit Sunday racing is a non-starter . |
| 3 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 4 | And before the children left they were given a carrier bag with all sorts of things that you could think of and to see the delight on those little children 's faces ! |
| 5 | Mr Cairns , a former Ulster teacher now lecturing in Japan who is home on a study project , said : ‘ They went for a meal to McDonalds and when the girls said they would take a taxi back to the Young Women 's Christian Association the boys told them not to take a black taxi because they were too expensive . |
| 6 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 7 | erm Many primary school children have no timetable and they do n't bring homework home , and when the parents ask them what they did all day at school they say ‘ Nothing ’ , and some parents , that 's all they 've got to go on , and they , they get quite worried about it . |
| 8 | Two people on opposite platforms and when the trains come they will go their different ways and not meet again . |
| 9 | These are already helping us to give a better service to our customers and as the systems develop they will allow us to have a more pro-active role in service . |
| 10 | They can travel easily in silty water only a metre or so deep , and as the waters recede they can remember the way back to the river bed along deep channels . |
| 11 | The sheep had huddled together to keep warm and as the drifts covered them the weaker animals were trampled and crushed beneath the stronger sheep that were struggling for air . |