Example sentences of "and they [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came over to meet some people and they seemed to be interested . |
| 2 | And they seemed to be old friends . ’ |
| 3 | They tend to be young , and they tend to be male . |
| 4 | They concern spoken discourse in which sender and receiver interact with each other rapidly , and they tend to be short and deal with a few turns at most . |
| 5 | But his secretiveness extended to not even telling them that , and they had to be content to accompany him as he turned left at the foot of the steps that led up to the station entrance and headed for the quays . |
| 6 | " Rifle bullets , and they appear to be live ones . |
| 7 | North West side Brigade stand in the way of North Down 's success — and they look to be formidable opposition . |
| 8 | Planners need a thorough understanding of the subject field to be explored , and its structure in enquiry ; they need to know what materials , print-form or audio-visual , are available , and suitable , and what special problems they may reveal ; they need to have available at the right time suitable equipment , and places where the equipment may be used , and they need to be sure that the student is able to find and make use of all the resources he may need in the periods of the timetable allotted to the activity . |
| 9 | The tourists came here principally to win the Test series and they proved to be worthy winners . |
| 10 | You could also find some letters that were confused , they did n't share common features but they sounded the same and they tended to be confused as well There was a lot of enthusiasm from the work of the neuro-psychologist th with the discovery of cells which appeared to be sensitive to particular features . |
| 11 | Well , I 'm in agreement with you , and I think most environmentalists are in agreement that sustained growth is the way forward , and they have to be sustainable for the economies of the people who actually live there to survive , and sustainable for the whole planet to survive . |
| 12 | ‘ Organisations move on , diversifying , moving into new activities , restructuring , ’ said Hardie , ‘ and they have to be alert to new risks . ’ |
| 13 | And they have to be safe for the performers , so that the nest-owners can survive to continue their parental duties . |
| 14 | They want to be effective in helping children to learn and develop , and they want to be able to feel pleasure in doing so , and pleased with themselves ( though often they find this a not-quite-nice thing to admit to ) for having done a good job . |
| 15 | Right Said Fred learned they could do something , and they learned to be proud of it . |
| 16 | Fish should be prepared for their winter vigil by judicious feeding with ants ' eggs , dried flies or freeze-dried worms until the weather turns cold and they cease to be active . |
| 17 | The Libyan oil industry depends on thousands of foreign experts , including Britons and Americans , and they seem to be content to stay . |
| 18 | ‘ In Stratford in particular , there is a hard core that hate anglers and they seem to be able to sway the rest of the council at voting time . |