Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] and [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That night a bird hurled itself against the window pane and woke them both up . |
| 2 | Everybody gets one and I wan na s I do n't wan na I wan na I wan na bring these in-house via the sales office and have them all centrally distributed cos it 's no good well if you read the T T G and the Travel Weekly it 's already taken two days . |
| 3 | Mrs. Browne had been at their Mayfair flat and seen them all off together . |
| 4 | The Mamur Zapt was in charge of law and order in Cairo and that meant keeping the city quiet and stopping them all from getting at each other 's throats . |
| 5 | So what I 'm saying is , is lead time in lots of business is highly valuable but if you can cut down the delivery time and give them more lead time you 're actually extending |
| 6 | Sir George Askwith , the Board of Trade 's Chief Industrial Commissioner , quickly persuaded Devonport to meet Harry Gosling and Harry Orbell , an influential official of the London Dockers , who were representative of both the executive of the Transport Workers ' Federation and the workers ' side of the Port of London Authority and to assure them that existing agreements would be maintained . |
| 7 | One idea I developed with my daughter , and find is very popular with all children , is to sing the wrong words of a nursery rhyme and get them all to shout out the right ones . |