Example sentences of "and [noun] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 31 | On other occasions when people feel tired , and again this applies particularly to night-workers , they know they should eat ( a rumbling stomach and hunger pangs tell them this ) and yet have no appetite . |
| 32 | It was also recommended that the DES should encourage postgraduate conversion courses , by means of maintenance grants , and that a single national body should be set up to identify manpower requirements and commission courses to meet them . |
| 33 | True , many were housing issues , hit because the banks and insurance companies supporting them , such as Citibank and Executive Life , had been downgraded . |
| 34 | Villagers have fallen into the role of waiting for the nurse to cure their sicknesses , the agricultural extension worker to apply the latest gardening technique and government officers to inform them on political developments . |
| 35 | For a while the television channel went off the air as protesters swarmed into the building , before troops and government supporters pushed them out . |
| 36 | The Tories have perhaps three years before back-bench revolts and by-election defeats force them back to the country . |
| 37 | The economics of gasfired stations meant that investors wanted long term supply and sale contracts to make them bankable . |
| 38 | I 'll be going to Governments and health authorities to tell them about the benefits for a whole society . |
| 39 | Newspapers and radio stations use them as copy for stories , as this unsolicited material is a good source of news for little effort . |
| 40 | The French peasantry 's revolutionary energies were soon dissipated and channelled into supporting Napoleon Bonaparte 's military regime after the abolition of the aristocracy and land reforms turned them into small property-owners . |
| 41 | The elasticated waist and ankle adjusters mean they can be worn either track-suit-style or as ‘ proper ’ trousers when a smarter look is needed . |
| 42 | Perhaps some of his churchmen allowed personal ambition and family loyalties to involve them in the political divisions of the reign , and so may have welcomed a change of dynasty in 1016 . |
| 43 | They are shunted from one set of rails to another ; turn-tables spin them round until they can be run upon any particular line ; by means of capstans and ropes the loaded trucks are warped this way or that ; and tank engines push them hither and thither . |
| 44 | QP is part of WML and as such has made a covenant or promise to both the Collict and Meikle families to support them as they seek to serve the Lord out in Brazil . |
| 45 | To some extent these academic outsiders are ‘ the enemy ’ of police society , whose training and class aspirations makes them supporters of the status quo and resentful of liberal ideas or academic intrusion ( Reiner 1978a ) . |
| 46 | Whereas in the past voters had looked to parties and party workers to help them make sense of politics , this function was now largely given up to television news broadcasts . |
| 47 | Lothian and Borders police said they were well prepared for the friendly invasion . |