Example sentences of "and they " in BNC.

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1 None of them is new and they are all straightforward .
2 Their cases were featured in a British Section Christmas card campaign in 1990 and they received 1,704 cards as a result of the appeal .
3 The grand form offered a scale of more or less assimilation to the form hidden in the wood , the surface a scale of textures , on both of which the sculptors played , and they are a source of specific qualities of the genre .
4 Races insult each other , and make war , and make love , and they may mix these activities up .
5 The affair seems to him to belong to the town , to have no future , and they are parted when the town comes under fear and hazard .
6 The myths are not all equally available to the novel , and they are not enough to explain it .
7 And they are those of a hero , as well as a drifting hyacinth .
8 And they will undoubtedly object to the more unbridled formulations that enter the three fictions ; the biography of Eliot has plenty to say on the subject , too , while maintaining a comparative , and suitable , reserve .
9 Readers can be expected to spot which of these quotations are forgeries , and they must also have doubted in their time whether this writer was as good as the early tributes made out .
10 The quoted words point back to the privileged second existence which poetry had once promised Jaromil , and they point ahead : the old meaning has been reversed , with the claim that real life resides in a revolutionary solidarity .
11 They are marvellously done , and they have caused a stir of approval in this country , while also raising doubts .
12 Since then , for the thirteen years since Kapuscinski 's departure , things have gone badly for the Angolans , and they are still suffering terribly .
13 They are books which bring together all three of the worlds we inhabit , and they are books which appear to thrive on being seen through — on the transparency of their suggestion that tyrannies , that sycophancy , conspiracy and repression , courts and courtiers , are all on the royal right , and in the bush , and running into the sand .
14 Heirs to the freedoms which , on the threshold of the Sixties , Take a girl like you may be thought to have assisted in inaugurating , but which it also contrived to criticise , young people now seem to feel that the old Patrick belonged to a sexist work , and they may well feel that the old Adam has surfaced again in the new Patrick .
15 But in many respects they are very different , and they come from different times : they are separated from one another by three-quarters of a century .
16 The works of authors are replicas , and they are unique .
17 Brothers may be rivals , and they may be internalised .
18 They 're born , they grow old , and they die like us ; and when they 're old , they can turn foolish , and even when they 're young , they can deceive you , and they 're actually capable of telling lies , pretending to be what they are n't : to be sick when they 're healthy , and healthy when they 're sick . ’
19 They 're born , they grow old , and they die like us ; and when they 're old , they can turn foolish , and even when they 're young , they can deceive you , and they 're actually capable of telling lies , pretending to be what they are n't : to be sick when they 're healthy , and healthy when they 're sick . ’
20 Classes are led by experienced staff , usually by staff at the drama school where the course is held , and at the end of the five weeks groups will present mini-production projects to each other , on which they will be assessed , and they will usually be given a certificate for having attended the course .
21 Film stars are real and all first class with big faces — and they 're good at it .
22 Agents are notified of performances by the schools , and they also receive hundreds of letters from students inviting them to see particular performances .
23 I 've even known fire eating , sword swallowing , skiing and judo to be useful , and they are certainly eye-catching — but be sure you really can do what you claim !
24 It 's difficult to evaluate how successful such co-ops are but many do seem to gain work on a fairly reasonable basis for their members , and they are certainly worth considering .
25 What does stand out is that everyone believes that the profession , its standards and its aims , matter , and they all feel an excitement about the job of acting .
26 Of course at school they always tell you that you should do a secretarial course , which was absolutely dreadful , and they put you off the idea of a career in the theatre just as much as they can .
27 You go out there with trembling knees , and they are already noticing those trembling knees .
28 There are , however , many strands within this protestantism and they are frequently conflicting .
29 For this reason , they feel that the siege of Londonderry has never been lifted and they are prepared to die to defend that heritage .
30 The committee was largely made up of Roman catholic clergy , and they clearly opposed the appointment on the grounds that a protestant could not be trusted to safeguard the catholic morals of her charges in her purchase and loaning of books .
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