Example sentences of "[noun sg] and they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 2 | Garry Thompson , the Coventry City footballer , told how he was made to take stock of his colour slightly earlier , just after beginning secondary school in Birmingham : ‘ I went up to some guys and asked to play football and they just shut me out . |
| 3 | A sharp word of command and they immediately sat down and waited as their mistress opened the car door . |
| 4 | We contacted British Airways Flying Pets Club and they kindly agreed to fly Des home . |
| 5 | Specialist cells serve other cells in the club and they also benefit from the efficiency of other specialists . |
| 6 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 7 | The youngest ones are the Institute of the future and they only require a little encouragement ( a twist of an arm ) and they will become reliable , enthusiastic committee members , secretaries or chairmen . |
| 8 | Three people with incendiary devices were found in a car … they said they had been intending to commit a serious crime and they just walk out of court . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Four of our six patients with active disease were on steroid therapy and they still had a greater absorption of PEGs than the patients in remission and controls . |
| 11 | News had reached them of the happenings at the manor and they rightly assumed that with Tom in charge of the manor farm they were not likely to be evicted from their forest camp . |
| 12 | this is why they were so excited about this one they found in the Lock , in the , in er Loch Ness , because it was in such superb condition and they actually reckon they can get it flying again . |
| 13 | Glasgow 's Clyde 2 Tigers are a much changed side and they too have experienced settling-in problems . |
| 14 | We were greeted with disbelief and they finally said , ‘ You know nothing of this business , you come to us with a facile and futile plan . |
| 15 | Leaving them in working position when knitting stocking stitch or other stitch patterns will cause wear and they then need to be replaced more frequently . |
| 16 | If Labour won the morrow and they only had twenty five percent majority it would be a hung parliament . |
| 17 | I do not think those were happy times in Emerson 's marriage and they certainly did not enhance his general image in the sport . |
| 18 | This practice is said to suit them better since it is probable that they will marry and leave off work and they hardly like to spend seven years out of their wage-earning life in being trained . " " |
| 19 | Models , like photographers , specialise in certain types of work and they usually have portfolios to show off how they look in a variety of poses . |
| 20 | Dr Martin Orne of the University of Pennsylvania told subjects to fake hypnosis and they easily fooled the hypnotist . |
| 21 | If a company called Joe Bloggs and Company that were from a back street … came with a similar proposal and they obviously had n't got two ha'pennies to rub together and certainly were n't gon na employ a chemist or anything like that , then … you would view that as a completely different proposition . |
| 22 | There were shutters inside each window and they too resisted all efforts to break them down . |
| 23 | The union then supported me further when I got another job and was a steward there , a branch secretary a district committee member and then on the regional committee and they also helped to put me through polytechnic and into the job that I did looking at mergers at the University of Warwick . |
| 24 | ‘ They 'd both like to see a reconciliation and they certainly have no plans for divorce . |
| 25 | Any reasonably well-known professional scientist will receive from time to time letters written by bell-meaning people who indicate , usually in rather guarded terms , that they have in their possession the solution to the riddle of the universe and they just need a little help in polishing it up or propagating it . |
| 26 | Training will have made dancers more adept at a certain style of dance and they usually show preference fur a certain type of step : elevation , pointe work , pirouettes or whatever . |
| 27 | Confidence spread through the Quakers ' ranks in the second half and they steadily took control . |
| 28 | Keeper John Lukic was beaten three times in the second half and they now face a giant task in the second leg of this first round tie . |
| 29 | This has been discussed at the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council and they fully support your proposals . |
| 30 | in the Regional Council and they now want to know all about them see |