Example sentences of "[verb] and [adj] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubts like this crystallize at one or two points , either where the presuppositions are so mixed and unsatisfactory that they are inaccurate , or where the presuppositions are true as far as they go but do not go far enough and so are incomplete . |
| 2 | In East German they are now drowning in rubbish because they used to have a perfect recycling scheme everything was collected and recycled cos they just did n't have the materials . |
| 3 | They also stop artists from trusting any products connected with the term ‘ acrylic ’ which is crazy as , unlike oils which crack and yellow as they age naturally , synthetic acrylic emulsions are age resistant , therefore forming a stable and reliable support when used in priming . |
| 4 | The heavy , crude outlines are now no longer broken and sporadic as they were in some of his most characteristically Fauve works , and every shape is carefully and fully outlined ; only a certain emphasis on the oval forms of the foliage , and a few touches of arbitrary colour retain any flavour of Fauvism . |
| 5 | Able to sit , composedly , eating and listening while they talked . |
| 6 | All the fish are eating and growing and they look perfectly healthy — but they are still flicking just a much as before . |
| 7 | Those two matters are , in our judgment , separate , and they should never have been mingled and confused as they were by the judge . |
| 8 | There stood the King of Kings and the president , choking and weeping as they tried to praise each other , their wives by their sides . |
| 9 | Movements are tracked with each individual 's location being constantly logged and updated as they transfer from helicopter to platform , supply vessel , or other destination . |
| 10 | Charles ordered the beheading of the entire company , bound and helpless as they were . |
| 11 | In time ‘ yeoman ’ came to mean primarily a farmer who had raised himself out of the ruck of common husbandman , ‘ such as be exempted out of the rascalitie of the popular bee called and written yeomen , as in the degree next vnto gentlemen ’ ; and while careful to avoid making wealth appear the sole criterion , Smith adds that ‘ these tende their owne businesse , come not to meddle in publike matters and iudgements but when they are called and glad when they are deliuered thereof ’ . |
| 12 | Would-be parents are also concerned that their Down 's child would be unable to live alone and thus be isolated and lonely when they are dead . |
| 13 | All the same , the military parade was the best of the show , with thousands of troops goose-stepping past the mausoleum , massed bands marching and counter-marching as they played , but then drowned out by the roar of armoured hardware . |
| 14 | Here I feel awake and ready , compelled to be on my feet when the sun reaches us , and the cattle , fretful and peckish , are released in a torrent of bay and brown and white , their huge horns gradually unlocking and separating as they spread out into the plain . |
| 15 | In particular , there was a striking morphological appearance in five infected livers in which the hepatocytes became progressively enlarged and distorted as they accumulated huge amounts of hepatitis B surface and core antigens ( HBsAg , HBcAg ) . |
| 16 | Brothers Sefic and Safet Alic and father-of three Ramo Besic were exhausted and ill when they arrived at Stansted in September last year . |
| 17 | You could find that this is just the beginning and that your plans are n't quite as cut and dried as they appear . ’ |
| 18 | So the inquiry is by no means cut and dried and they 're now trying to piece together the last hours of the dead woman 's life . |
| 19 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 20 | The use of the word ‘ lazy ’ here does not imply that those animals are indolent or inefficient but rather that their specialisation is so finely tuned and successful that they are able to spend a great deal of their daily lives sitting , gazing and sleeping . |
| 21 | Although there are regional differences , social and marital roles have become less clearly defined and structured than they were half a century ago . |
| 22 | The adjectives here are gnawed and barren and they are both structurally crucial to the meaning of the sentence : the sentence needs them . |
| 23 | As she went round to the back of the Post Office , she could hear Mrs Hollins and Rachel in the kitchen , giggling and chattering while they cooked their Sunday lunch . |
| 24 | Yeah about the train spotting and all that they said did n't they ? |
| 25 | Slowly they moved on up the slope , using the trees for protection , watching and listening until they had reached the top , and open ground . |
| 26 | As they moved round , the pace quickening , out of the corner of her eye Rachel saw a little group clustered round the dodgems and Jimmy and Danny climbing into one of the cars , while on the grass below the carousel Sybil stood with the others watching and waving as they whirled past . |
| 27 | As I alluded to earlier on , voltage gated channels have been cloned and sequenced and they show first of all homology between all three classes , sodium , er calcium and potassium . |
| 28 | ‘ Poor things , no life of their own , ’ they say , simultaneously thrilled and appalled as they pore over the latest ‘ revelations ’ in the Mail or Express . |