Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] they [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some relationships have already split up before girls realise that their periods have stopped or they feel a bit sick , and they discover they are well and truly pregnant . |
| 2 | They left her alone with a great heavy belt strapped round her belly pressing her and making green and yellow lights wink on the huge machine by the bed , and she could n't move and her back was aching and they put a tube into her wrist and she could n't move and she began to panic . |
| 3 | And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered . |
| 4 | He said last night : ‘ I 've had a spot of bother for the past four or five years with my knee so I had these X-rays done and they found a bone growth about the size of a pea . |
| 5 | And then they fall down and die and they give a signal er they scream and they pick something up . |
| 6 | Nothing stirred and they breathed a sigh of relief . |
| 7 | In 1986 the local authority became concerned about injuries which D had sustained and they obtained a place of safety order . |
| 8 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 9 | In applications of this kind the authors argue that geographic information management in general and GIS in particular have an important role to play and they give a number of examples from research in progress to illustrate the current state of the art in this field . |
| 10 | The master 's books were inspected and they showed a balance of about £50 ( which was more than enough to pay the wages ) . |
| 11 | he panicked and they had a hell of a time with him because he panicked in there , in the hospital and there was a , going berserk and that but you see daddy did n't , oh there 's nothing |
| 12 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 13 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 14 | Of course they knew and they had a pin in o in their hand to stick every hundred like that see . |
| 15 | Partnerships , small scale as well as large , need a clear sense of purpose made explicit in objectives , they need a strategic plan for achieving these objectives which is communicated to and understood by those involved and they need a review and evaluation process built into the whole to determine what is being achieved . |
| 16 | Teams of bull dancers were evidently involved and they rehearsed a repertoire of spectacular and dangerous-looking feats for the benefit of a host of onlookers : there is little doubt that the crowd of spectators shown in the Grandstand Fresco is watching a display of bull-leaping , and the Tripartite Shrine fixes the location as the Central Court of the temple . |
| 17 | If you do and they complete a report and give you their best advice you can still say no thank you I 'm going to put it in the building society . |
| 18 | The refuge just told me to stay put and they sent a car round for me . |
| 19 | so they did n't come , and I did n't go out and Gemma came up and I was sitting there talking and they had a drop , drop of wine and I had one with erm and Gemma finished her biscuits up , we 've got to get some more biscuits now Gemma brings her |
| 20 | I quote — ‘ Nowadays though , young musicians come into places where older musicians are playing and they play a body of tunes which the older player would not know . |
| 21 | They discussed and they reached a conclusion ; as a result a new church school — Curry Rivel Parochial School — was built in Church Street in 1876 , the year in which the first of two Acts was passed making school attendance compulsory . |