Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] they [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I can imagine it being a bit strained off and on with er two lots of parents or do they know each other well and everything ? |
| 2 | Do students learn passively , by taking notes in a 50-minute lecture , or do they have more control over their own learning ? |
| 3 | Shouting at cats or hitting them has little effect . |
| 4 | Comments such as ‘ a history of childhood abuse is both hip and horrible , the rock'n'roll statement with knobs on ’ do not encourage other men to discuss the issue , nor do they treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves . |
| 5 | The garbage pickers are not employed by Cartón de Colombia or the warehouses , nor do they have any sort of contract with them . |
| 6 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 7 | While the Chewong are fully aware of the physiological differences between the sexes , these are not valued relative to each other , nor do they constitute any base for symbolic ordering ( see Howell 1983 , 1988 for further discussion on Chewong gender ) . |
| 8 | This is reinforced by Handy 's view that schools have a multiplicity of purposes and these are not discriminated between or prioritised , nor do they include any reference to the management of adults . |
| 9 | Nor do they share any body of feminist dogma . |
| 10 | They receive no overtime pay , nor do they get any holiday money or sickness benefit . |
| 11 | Nor did they see any future in piecemeal political reform of the autocracy . |
| 12 | Briggs and Nebes ( 1976 ) found no effect of familial handedness but nor did they find any effect of handedness per se . |
| 13 | In general , women have not benefited much in the job market from capitalist industrialisation nor have they gained much influence in society outside the family through political channels . |
| 14 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
| 15 | He rang the hospital and told them to stop that man sending letters . |
| 16 | We should approach the white public school middle class networks in the business world and let them deliver some money . |
| 17 | Beat all these together with a whisk , till all appeareth converted into froth , and let them stand all night . |
| 18 | I says , they have a hotel there , so I brought them up to the hotel and took them , he went in and he made arrangements to stay there and then I took them over and let them see this lake dwell this crannagh as they call it . |
| 19 | Water houseplants regularly and ensure they receive enough humidity |
| 20 | D' ya think it might be worth writing to some of the and asking them to donate any paper plates ? |
| 21 | Conference , I believe that this existing rule nineteen , gives the G M B an opportunity to expand into branch administration officers across all the regions and use them to do any job that is needed and expected by the members . |
| 22 | Indeed , and to allow them to take that sort of action that they feel allows them , or enables them to express what they 're feelings are , but to assume that they can take the sort of action that we as adults have not been able to take , i.e. to find different ways and more mature ways of resolving conflicts is putting expectations on children that we as adults have n't been able to achieve ourselves . |
| 23 | And do they contradict each other ? |
| 24 | Occasionally he would descend to the students ' common room immediately beneath and beg them to make less noise so that he could write . |
| 25 | If you have practised all the new skills available to you with the K858 , you could , at this stage , create a garment combining a selection of textures that all go well together , choosing from Fair Isle , lace and cables and placing them to set each other off to the best advantage . |
| 26 | And higher still we ascended , by thinking inwardly and speaking and marvelling at your works , and we came to our minds and transcended them to reach that region of unfailing abundance where you feed Israel forever on the food of truth . |
| 27 | Of course , this is not even really a realistic option , because you 'd still have the impossible communication problem of getting the information out to the individuals involved in the first place , and then getting the answers back again and coordinating them to make some sort of over-all sense . |
| 28 | Clearly , an LEA has an obligation in the words of a recent Audit Commission report ( Audit Commission 1989a ) to ‘ articulate a vision of what the education service is trying to achieve ’ and to ‘ support schools and help them to fulfil this vision ’ , but it could be argued that the most appropriate focus for such a vision , necessarily generalized because of the range of institutional contexts and pupil needs involved , should be on identifying broad goals and the kinds of learning which schools might seek to promote . |
| 29 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 30 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |