Example sentences of "and they [verb] [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they agreed to forget their differ ences and carry out their duties as planned . |
| 2 | They acknowledged that Mr Blake , from Lord Jim , had rescued their employee on both occasions and they wished to record their thanks for this . |
| 3 | " Cho Lon " in Annamese means " Great Market , " and they hope to make their fortune there as many Cantonese emigrants have done , by exploiting the lazy Annamese . |
| 4 | ‘ About 50 per cent of our sales are made to women and they tend to buy their men more adventurous underwear than the men buy themselves , ’ says Nicky Lovell , ‘ but British men are becoming more interested in something other than a pair of white underpants . ’ |
| 5 | Furthermore , the monks ' support of Winchelsea in his struggle with the Crown caused them to be temporarily driven out of their house and they had to watch their grain rot in their granary . |
| 6 | The parents felt that the normal protection of the law had been reversed and they had to prove their innocence , rather than the law having to prove their guilt . |
| 7 | And they had to have their secret routes , you see the excise men would be looking for them . |
| 8 | Coleraine , like Omagh , were also without a win before this meeting and they failed to get their game together allowing Omagh to capitalise on their hesitancy . |
| 9 | Erm they would n't grow , they ca n't grow grain or use two or three times in succession , but then for that another seven years because it takes so much goodness out the erm thing , there 's so many diseases and they got to change their crop after a while |
| 10 | ‘ The elephants are very inquisitive and they like to inspect their new living quarters and play with the piles of bricks . |
| 11 | And they continued to develop their distribution and retail network and now over half of our sales are overseas and er , we developed our direct mail and our chain store business er , even though demand was down . |
| 12 | At the first whistle the archers shoot two arrows and , when all have shot , the whistle blows and they go to check their scores and await the whistle to shoot back the other way . |
| 13 | In 1925 , Oswald Mosley and John Strachey were both members of the Birmingham ILP , and they collaborated to produce their own strategy for a socialist solution to unemployment . |
| 14 | ‘ They'se stayin' at one of the tied cottages at Hillbrook Farm and they has to earn their keep . |
| 15 | They were a mid grey , neither too aggressive nor too dormant , and they tended to stick their little round heads out of the ‘ oily ’ pools like hungry fledglings in a nest . |
| 16 | He still saw Irving Layton , and they decided to put their hands to playwriting ; which reinforced his mother 's concern ! |
| 17 | Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge , and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area . |
| 18 | Depending on the size of the party , the organizer chooses three or four children as each animal and they have to find their group . |
| 19 | Actors have to be trained , and they have to learn their parts ; similarly , neurons must somehow acquire their trigger features and projective zones . |
| 20 | And they have to show their horses all the way , the governor walks all the way round the lot of them . |
| 21 | ‘ If people are trying to reduce weight gain , especially because obesity affects blood fats and they want to protect their coronary arteries , then reducing sugar would be a good idea , ’ he said . |
| 22 | They therefore expect the companies they work for to support the providers of those services , in some way , and they want to play their part too , in delivering those services , and I have quite a lot to say about that , later on . |
| 23 | The division heads concur that the message is credible up to the point that a very important issue is at stake and they want to prove their mettle ; then headquarters begins to interfere . |
| 24 | It 's to keep you invested in building societies , only they , they 're frantic because all the money 's going out and they want to keep their erm their erm deposits up , so they 're offering these schemes , and they are quite good , there are no charges as such , but er you 'll get the value of the fund that they 've made , or you 'll get a say two or three percent bonus per annum on top of the er share rate , er if you keep it for four or five years . |
| 25 | America 's top two golfers — they have won $2.5m between them on the US circuit this season — have been elected favourites for the 32-nation event , and they want to avenge their recent defeat in the Dunhill Cup , when Love , Couples and Tom Kite lost to England in the semi-finals . |
| 26 | That type of thing , or they were A types and they learned to modify their behaviour , and survived or the A types are dead before they get to the top . |