Example sentences of "and they [vb base] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 17 per cent of all disabling occupational injuries , plus many thousands of less serious accidents , were caused by falls in 1990 , according to the National Safety Council , and they cost US business billions of dollars |
| 2 | They were really bad mistakes on my part and they cost us dear . |
| 3 | New converts , on the other hand , have no such problems because pre-Christian experience is still fresh in their mind and they communicate their faith in an everyday language because they have not yet learned a new jargon . |
| 4 | He looked directly at Stephen , who lowered his voice and in a quiet but firm tone said , ‘ Barbadians are a proud and self-respecting people , and they deserve your respect too . |
| 5 | And they wish your Grace joy , and comfort in the favour God has shown to your arms , and the Lord Henry trusts to see you in health and spirits at the assembly of your parliament at the month 's end . ’ |
| 6 | Genes are made of the nucleic acid DNA , and they exert their effect by determining which proteins are made in the cell . |
| 7 | Now , unemployment among unskilled black people is six times higher than among whites , because employers have to pay the same rate to both , and they express their prefence by choosing white employees . |
| 8 | A big van pulls up and they stick their stuff inside and get in , but just before they go , the man with the fog horn thing turns round and says all friendly like , ‘ Happy Christmas ’ . |
| 9 | They understand straight up as meaning the direction of the sun , and they know which direction is straight up because they are sensitive to gravity . |
| 10 | They know their job , they know their people and they know their territory . |
| 11 | This company is well-known to us , and they know our equipment , and we are satisfied that any after-sales service work they carry out for us will be done to a high standard . |
| 12 | And they tell us sea fishing is primitive in its thinking . |
| 13 | It seems that young women fear having the terms applied to them ( by men and also by one another ) , and they police their self-presentation and sexual behaviour to avoid being labelled slags . |
| 14 | These retinal cells are capable , in some mysterious way , of rendering the light " audible " ( one might say ) , and they relay their information to the brain . |
| 15 | Stress affects posture : often people look slumped , their shoulders sag and they hunch their back ; alternatively they hold themselves very rigid so that the muscles of the shoulders and neck especially are set ; their face takes on a fixed expression with perhaps staring eyes or clenched jaw ; muscular tics and involuntary twitches can arise ; for some people cramp is stress-related . |
| 16 | Kate , 19 , of Andover , Hants , who won a bronze medal , said : ‘ You bring honour to your country and they stop your money . ’ |
| 17 | They speak on the European peoples party membership of committees , that is the only way in which they can find a voice in committees and they take their share of European peoples party 's funding from the European peoples party . |
| 18 | If they were good , you would say it 's good for our art-form , but when they 're not and they take our money , that makes me mad . ’ |
| 19 | but that surprised the man in the queue and yet interestingly I think that and she said I was right in my assumption that that is part of the partnership philosophy of John Lewis that they work in partnership with their staff and in partnership with the community and they make their profit which is generated to start through the community which they sell to and therefore they quietly give back without wanting to play their own trumpets and in a sense I think that 's how it should be . |
| 20 | The brown earthenware pot is carefully taken out , the chest is relocked and they make their way back to the schoolroom . |
| 21 | Often Hickey is besieged by fans who want him to turn up the vocals and they make their point forcibly . |
| 22 | It works by distracting them from barking and they change their behaviuor . |
| 23 | ‘ We get dads coming along who might have been into Cream and they bring their son who 's wearing a Megadeth T-shirt — the common link is Hendrix . ’ |
| 24 | and they keep their reading books from the li their library going at the pace they want to go at |
| 25 | The negligence aspect of it , if somebody is negligent and does n't , for example , keep the engine oil topped up and they drive their vehicle until the engine seizes , in fairness it 's not the insurance company 's responsibility to put that right if the customer has been negligent , and I do n't think any reasonable person would ask us to do that in that situation . |
| 26 | If you 've got any queries on this please call me on and they write in blah blah and they sign their name so that it 's legible . |
| 27 | that 's true but and they like their cup of tea they 've never had a cup of tea |
| 28 | The schemes now are paid a pension at fifty , but the only , the only snag I understand is it is n't inflation , inflation proofed until fifty-five , but people are drawing their pensions and they get their lump sums at fifty and it 's enhanced to take into account the actual and expected earnings for the next three years , so er you take thirty thousand people , one point seven billion can soon erm |
| 29 | ‘ I know critics will say that Souness picks the team , and they reflect his selection . |
| 30 | erm I mean it 's interesting the lessons that Queenie learnt — the lesson that I learnt from French local government is that erm the French believe in local government , and they put their money where their mouth is . |