Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woodlice breed well in captivity if their surroundings are kept damp and they have enough food . |
| 2 | These two cases look very different but they have many aspects in common . |
| 3 | But some people got twenty six and they got yellow tickets as well . |
| 4 | That 's right and they paid some child |
| 5 | He had been her dressmaker since the early thirties and they knew each other very well . |
| 6 | Which you used to light with a taper or something like that and they had little chains on to adjust your light . |
| 7 | and they sold that and they bought that house between them Romana 's mum and dad |
| 8 | These are what we want to do , you know , work hard and they do this sort of thing . |
| 9 | Erm let me make a few announcements erm firstly Longmans the publishers are producing a large and they hope definitive dictionary of the English language and in aid of this they have asked various universities to produce examples , recorded examples of academic monologue and we 've agreed to cooperate and that is what this little piece of electronic wizardry is in aid of in case you were wondering . |
| 10 | They 're walking through the desert and like , you know , they 're gon na die , it 's obvious and they see this house . |
| 11 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
| 12 | In future the processes may be ozone friendly but they involve higher temperatures which could damage fabrics containing PVC . |
| 13 | In North America the pied Dutch cows were selected for high yield above all and they became specialist milk producers , with a marked difference in size and conformation . |
| 14 | In the end he is n't they who , he sued the insurance company and this , the er solicitor he had were n't getting on very good and they suggested this bloke and he got onto it and he got on it , fifteen thousand quid out of sixteen thousand quids . |
| 15 | I mean not just filthy i er bodily but they had filthy habits . |
| 16 | Time was short and they needed each other 's strength . |
| 17 | They may all start off the same , but the principle of organization is inexorable and they develop specialized functions according to the needs of the whole . |
| 18 | Married Peter in 1978 and they have two daughters . |
| 19 | There are now many types of condom available and they allow more sensitivity than they used to . |
| 20 | If standard lager was bland , pallid nablab imitations were substantially worse and they put many drinkers off altogether . |
| 21 | The number of personnel is small but they work full time in the unit and are not concerned with the rest of the corporate planning department 's roles in the planning process . |
| 22 | However , some keys , |
| 23 | because of the state of the country , or the state of the employment , but we 've been out , actually out with those two and they put this country down |
| 24 | And they are erm a very go ahead company ; they 're young and they have this maverick style , which they think we can erm come into quite reasonably well . |
| 25 | pat patio on the , on the , erm Virgin Square or somebody or other and they have all flamenco dances ooh , ooh all different sorts all different groups |
| 26 | In fact , they are both necessary and they complement each other . |
| 27 | They wriggle , they 're slimey and they give some people the creeps . |
| 28 | Then much later it was bought by a very rich Arab Christian family called Damiani and they turned this building ’ — the man paused in humorous reflection for a moment — ‘ into a soap factory . |
| 29 | Their turnover has threbled to over six million and they employ ninety people , twice as many as last year . |
| 30 | They 're expensive but they collect pure rainfall , because coral never gets dirty . ’ |