Example sentences of "and they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers are convinced that unless they stand firm against economic migrants , the West faces ‘ chaos and great unhappiness ’ and they privately cite peremptory US treatment of unwanted immigrants from countries like Mexico and Haiti . |
| 2 | I just put the title ‘ Division ’ on the board and they immediately wail that they ca n't do it . |
| 3 | Their minds seem " triggered " by some key word(s) in the question and they immediately plunge into an uncritical and largely irrelevant answer . |
| 4 | Their green eyes fell on the strange eight-legged carving — which may indeed have been a spider , or an octopus , or may yet again have been something altogether more strange and they immediately decided that they were n't so hungry , at that . |
| 5 | A sharp word of command and they immediately sat down and waited as their mistress opened the car door . |
| 6 | This came as a surprise to the band as they had never agreed to play the concert at all and they immediately issued a statement to this effect , fearing that many of their fans were being lured into buying tickets for a Smiths free event . |
| 7 | They 've lost one family and they immediately think they are going to lose another . ’ |
| 8 | The two were the base of a formidable team , and they immediately declared their purpose was to give emotional , moral and practical support to the stricken families . |
| 9 | With the race being the first nominated for the Commonwealth Games panel to ride , the 80-strong field contained a big 21 contingent of top riders and they closely marked each other for most of the race . |
| 10 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 11 | And there 's the controversy , which I do n't approve of controversy and they rather roll their tongues around and in and out of words and |
| 12 | He and fellow norwegian international Leonhardsen is training with Spurs and they both played for the Tottenham reserves last night against Arsenal ( 2–2 ) . |
| 13 | Her own petit friture was a plateful of tiny fish , crisply fried and sprinkled with garlic , and they both opted for guinea fowl casseroled in red wine , and so tender it almost fell off the bone , with sautéd potatoes and cabbage cooked in butter , as their main course . |
| 14 | Jimmy was at his side now , and they both looked through the glazed front of the doors . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Rose , ‘ Do n't you ? ’ and then she looked at her sister and they both looked at their laps and a heavy silence fell . |
| 16 | He gave her a speaking glance and they both rushed for his car , neither needing to discuss the question of whether Belinda was willing to donate her blood for Faye . |
| 17 | The state of mind of day-dream escapers was not simple and they both believed in their plans and knew quite well that they would never carry them out at the same time . |
| 18 | Joey opened the Sierra and they both got in the back . |
| 19 | Chapels on this pattern were barely distinguishable from parish churches of the same period and they both fitted perfectly into the leafy suburbs for which they were intended . |
| 20 | As argued elsewhere ( Tomkins , 1987 ) , both Mrs Thatcher in moving to a more competitive economy in the United Kingdom and President Kennedy in declaring that the United States would put a man on the moon established very strong ideologies based more on fundamental beliefs as to what was required than on extensive rational analysis , and they both achieved considerable change . |
| 21 | Gerry Flynn , who still has not fully recovered from a hernia operation , was thrown into the fray against Ards , as was newcomer Fran Hitchcock for his first game , and they both marked the occasion with a goal . |
| 22 | Joe handed the foaming mugs over the bar , and they both collapsed into the little wooden dining chairs set each side of the dying open fire . |
| 23 | The second flashed the first , and they both jerked out of the way . |
| 24 | This group , known as T.E.C.A. , the Teachers ' Economic and Cultural Association Ltd. had been impressed by the strong nationalistic tone of Williams ' book and they wholeheartedly agreed with his sentiments that education of the people should be ‘ part of their democratic privileges and their democratic responsibilities ’ . |
| 25 | Their social and economic pre-eminence was just beginning to seem more precarious and they wholeheartedly welcomed vigorous confirmation of the regime 's commitment to the status quo . |
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| 27 | ‘ We get a lot of day trippers motoring around the Downs and they see the signs for Brands Hatch and they automatically put their foot down thinking they 're bleedin' Formula One drivers . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah , I came I went up about a year ago , I remember when I went down to Hertford in the yeah , I said I , I forgot to say what ticket and they automatically give you an adult do n't they ? |
| 29 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 30 | They delayed revisions of the Factory Law which were aimed at strengthening protective measures for workers and they effectively opposed government attempts to grant legal recognition to trade unions at that time ( Taira , 1973 ) . |