Example sentences of "[adj] and they [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been to the police about this and they are trying to take it further . |
| 2 | I had to retrieve it to write this and they are lining up already for its release . |
| 3 | This is partly to get higher wages , but it is really so because jobs are run-of-the-mill and they are looking simply for a change of venue , a new setting , and new faces . |
| 4 | I told the cleaning ladies and they came up and said , twiddled around with it and said that they could n't work out what was wrong and they were gon na get some engineers in or something , engineers ? |
| 5 | I mean , there 's kids round my way who are 11 or 12 years old and they 're dropping Es and smoking draw . |
| 6 | But Peggy says well why should n't they walk out , if they 're that old and they 're do n't li why should n't they get up and walk out ? |
| 7 | They 've broken free and they 're turning to see what kind of creatures called them out of their enchanted sleep . |
| 8 | A new 20% initial allowance will be available for industrial and agricultural buildings that currently qualify for writing-down allowances , provided that they are constructed under a contract entered into between 1 November 1992 and 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use for the purposes of a qualifying trade by 31 December 1994 . |
| 9 | In his Autumn Statement ( p 124 ) , the Chancellor of the Exchequer raised the first year capital allowance for plant and machinery ( excluding cars ) to 40% for 12 months from 1 November 1992 and introduced an initial allowance of 20% for industrial and agricultural buildings where contracts are placed before 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use before the end of 1994 . |
| 10 | An initial allowance of 20% will apply for expenditure on new industrial and agricultural buildings where contracts are placed before 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use before the end of 1994 . |
| 11 | At the end of that time , each one of them had experienced unpleasant symptoms ; some became hostile and argumentative ; some had panic attacks and nightmares ; all of them found their attention span had grown shorter and they were finding it more difficult to remember things . |
| 12 | They 're still giving me hassles that I 'm not British and they 're going to deport me . |
| 13 | All branches received some and they were left in public places . |
| 14 | All branches received some and they were left in public places . |
| 15 | It was eight forty-five and they were nearing the church , passing now into one of the low tunnels that spanned the canal . |
| 16 | They were afraid and they were lost . |
| 17 | Do n't know how it got round cos it 's all over Emma 's books and Lisa 's right and they 're going , who 's Billy then ? |
| 18 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |
| 19 | With regard to intrauterine devices we suggest that in some women developing endometriosis while using them the disease goes unrecognised and they are treated by removal of the device . |
| 20 | The Manager joined Andrew Cunningham underground and together they continued the search but it was in vain and they were forced to return to the surface . |
| 21 | When the Inspecting Officer first visited Croydon 's electric tramways , he was none too happy about the ‘ Providence ’ lifeguards — and at the second inspection , they were condemned as unsuitable and they were replaced by Wilson & Bennett wire mesh gate and tray lifeguards . |
| 22 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 23 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 24 | I mean , you tell somebody that and they 're forced to believe you are you ? |
| 25 | I do n't like it when they 're sitting on the floor in front of the counter with their legs like that and they 're sitting there and you 're looking at the video and you think , well , I ca n't get that because that was made in nineteen-eighty-six and they might think I 'm a bit weedy , so I better get something that was made recently . |
| 26 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 27 | And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know . |
| 28 | No blinking Sam goes to me , cos we were , we were , we turned Arachnophobia off because people needed the toilet and erm there was Songs of Praise or , you know , something like that and they were talking about all this terrorism , somebody said oh I 'm glad you did n't go to London said but I did and she goes oh no you did n't did you ? worried about me going to London |
| 29 | Perhaps a bit more than that , the old nineteen thirty three class differentiation documents are reissued and they are reissued together with the supplements which we saw came out in the autumn of nineteen thirty three which and , and those supplements where then extended to allow the middle peasant to er up to twenty five , on some of the readings up to thirty percent , of his income from exploitation . |
| 30 | But for some the undertow is too strong and they are sucked away to navigate unexplored tributaries of the Amazon , encounter the tribes of remotest Papua New Guinea , cross Australia by camel , or Asia by bicycle , or walk to the North Pole — alone . |