Example sentences of "and the [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | If two hundred cans of paint and the shelves supporting them fell on top of you , you would n't get up — would you ? |
| 2 | The pretence that statutes merely declared existing law was dropped ; they occupied areas of national life which before they had only occasionally entered ; they became far more precisely drafted and the judges interpreted them a good deal less freely ; they were , by the reign of Elizabeth , the outcome of a definite and recognized procedure . |
| 3 | I do n't know any of the Beatles songs and the girls sing them on top of their desks . |
| 4 | They found candles in the box , and the girls lit them . |
| 5 | He heard my father had died and the doctors said they needed to see me . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's stopped haemorrhaging now , and the doctors think they may be able to save the pregnancy — it 's a question of making sure she rests completely . ’ |
| 7 | As I write , Washington is taking a second look at a once-derided theory , which maintains that the Reagan-Bush campaign made a private deal with Iran in 1980 ; the Iranians keeping the American hostages until after the election and the Reaganites rewarding them with heavy weapons as the price of Jimmy Carter 's pelt . |
| 8 | For such macro-systems , the principle that the designer produces what he thinks the users need is being replaced by the principle that the users themselves decide what they want and the professionals assist them in designing as specified by the users . |
| 9 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 10 | Only the embankment remained , and the tunnel they used to run through when they were kids , shouting to make the killer bats and the rats think they were bigger than they really were . |
| 11 | You know when you flick them out and the teachers took them off of them . |
| 12 | The rich fled to the hill stations and the beggars followed them . |
| 13 | And the distributors deny they 're encouraging violence . |
| 14 | And the players hope they have done enough to make Johnson 's spell in charge permanent . |
| 15 | Oxford are sticking to their old blades and the experts reckon they 'll be sharp enough to win on Saturday . |
| 16 | It would take me Fucking years to type in the details of all the players and the rules to distribute them . |
| 17 | Only Greenidge and Lloyd kept them afloat as Snow and Underwood bowled really well and the fielders backed them up . |
| 18 | When the price of graphite fell in 1900 and the mines closed they returned to their villages ; one result was an increase in the number of cases of cattle stealing in the Western and Southern Provinces of fifty-six per cent over 1899 . |
| 19 | Through an emissary , they threatened that if they had to withdraw — which was now inevitable — and the partisans attacked them as they retreated , the cities of Bologna , Reggio Emilia , Parma and Piacenza would be destroyed . |
| 20 | Both the scientists and the industrialists said they were pleased with the Didcot meeting . |
| 21 | The only sense in which the legislature can be properly said to have authorised these things to be done is that it has enabled the Poor Law Board to order , and the managers to do them , if , and when , and where , they can obtain by free bargain and contract the means of doing so . |
| 22 | Mr Garel-Jones : In the case of the EC treaties and the treaties amending them there has been a practice of annexing protocols to the treaties and of adopting Declarations in connection with conclusion of the treaties . |
| 23 | But if the problems are acute , and the parents feel they are unable to cope , foster or home arrangements can be organised . |
| 24 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 25 | Cook 's skipped it , and the others said they 'd already talked to you . ’ |
| 26 | He and the others say they 'll fight on against what they call a crime against humanity : |
| 27 | And the members said they hoped the widespread devastation caused to buildings in the city would never be repeated . |
| 28 | just one other cricket match , again I said in Hertfordshire , this one 's at Ashwall near Baldock , and their cricket club 's long way ahead in fact , but it 's erm , twenty first September , but we sha n't have time to talk about it before two o'clock and it 's in aid of the garden hospice at Letchworth , a very worthy cause that , and John Emburey 's taking a , a Middlesex eleven against the Cherubs who are the local team , John runs them down there , so that er , that is at Ashwall , two o'clock start twenty first September , have a look at John Emburey and his Middlesex eleven , all in a good , good cause , and the Cherubs watch them as well . |
| 29 | When he had them so placed , he spurred ahead and drew dear , and the archers cut them down like corn . |
| 30 | It 'll establish efficient links between North Oxfordshire 's farmers and the police helping them to be quick off the mark if anything dubious is noticed . |