Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They come across as the same songs although they do n't sound as huge and magnificent and lush as they do on the record . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All their special , you know , relics and that and they put them all in the cellars so when it was bombed , all the precio all the treasures and that were kept . |
| 4 | Yes they they amalgamated then this parties and that and they had the you see . |
| 5 | but thing is there 's a lot lot of like Lee 's friends and that and they say well I could n't work in a shoe shop and I would n't work in a , and I say why ? |
| 6 | There was a satellite dish out in the grounds , and she was keen to keep up her French and Spanish as they had improved no end since she had begun working in Peter 's cosmopolitan little shop at the resort . |
| 7 | Now I have considerable respect for the House of Commons ' Environment Committee but I think on this occasion they must have been tired and emotional when they wrote that . |
| 8 | Addressing a conference in London she said that all too often , families were left isolated drained and exhausted as they helped to rebuild a shattered life . |
| 9 | We 'll see if we ca n't catch sight of Mullach and Lionan as they head back north . |
| 10 | The clash is absolute and stable when they cross at 90° . |
| 11 | Most crucial of all , the royal couple themselves , with their thin permeable skins , will die if the atmosphere gets so hot and dry that they lose their body fluids or if they are badly chilled , and this may mean the end of the whole colony . |
| 12 | There are only so many things you can sell to someone who merely requires to be kept warm and dry as they walk up a hill . |
| 13 | Their agreement was that this was to be a pre-supper drink with Colin and Yvonne , the limit both of time and alcohol consumption clearly understood between her and Norman before they left home . |
| 14 | His manner had been exaggeratedly polite and impersonal when they had opened the mail together earlier . |
| 15 | When she stepped from the car he had greeted her with careful formality and his manner had remained stiff and impersonal as they began the ride ; but she sensed a tension in him too and knew intuitively that it was not a lack of interest that kept his gaze averted from her . |
| 16 | Some become anxious and depressed because they fall behind . |
| 17 | She was frightened and depressed when they took her into hospital for the operation on December 22 , but she was fit enough to go home on Christmas Day . |
| 18 | Pluralist accounts of the Japanese state for example underestimate the ambiguity of the division between public and private when they imply that individual rights in a liberal democracy confine the scope of the state to exclusively public spheres . |
| 19 | O ! the cry did knock/Against my very heart ’ has turned these drowned wares into something subtler and stranger than they seem . |
| 20 | Between half an hour and 40 minutes for each side ( to be divided between leader and junior as they think fit ) is enough time . |
| 21 | Banker Alan Clarke , who has spent years working in America , says : ‘ The American women I have been out with have always been successful and good-looking but they do n't have the ability to laugh at themselves . |
| 22 | Those circumstances are strictly defined as being first , where confidential information would be disclosed to the Press and public if they attended , and secondly where exempt information would be disclosed to the Press and public if they attended . |
| 23 | Those circumstances are strictly defined as being first , where confidential information would be disclosed to the Press and public if they attended , and secondly where exempt information would be disclosed to the Press and public if they attended . |
| 24 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 25 | Rather , many contemporaries were impressed by the growing capacity of some at least of the working class to practice self- and mutual-help and they sought ways of encouraging its further development . |
| 26 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 27 | Lighter , and fainter until they float |
| 28 | They are polite and careful and they do not look at him . |
| 29 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 30 | Compared to the brothel prostitutes , they are dowdy and unkempt and they have a lot more problems with the police . |