Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] they [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er . |
| 2 | And then a dim light opened out ahead : their boots crunched on pebbles and they emerged from a small cave whose entrance was uncovered only at the lowest of low tides . |
| 3 | They are very happy places and they make for a lot of happiness with parents too I think . |
| 4 | There may be as many as 150,000 individuals and they cluster in a vast ball between the roots of a tree or beneath an overhanging stone . |
| 5 | On the other side of the stream there was a collection of farm buildings but they linked to a different road further down . |
| 6 | The London boroughs and metropolitan districts closely resembled the unitary authorities but they operated in a quite different regional context from that intended by the Royal Commission . |
| 7 | But , almost at the end of the ascent , there came a new series of alarming jerks and they juddered to a halt once more . |
| 8 | Tom squeezed on the reins and they came to a halt . |
| 9 | Their relationship became more and more covert ; he left the police and they moved to a suburb where they ‘ passed for white ’ and began the long struggle called ‘ trying for white ’ . |