Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] they [vb infin] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The garbage pickers are not employed by Cartón de Colombia or the warehouses , nor do they have any sort of contract with them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nor do they share any body of feminist dogma . |
| 9 | They receive no overtime pay , nor do they get any holiday money or sickness benefit . |
| 10 | Nor did they see any future in piecemeal political reform of the autocracy . |
| 11 | Briggs and Nebes ( 1976 ) found no effect of familial handedness but nor did they find any effect of handedness per se . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We should approach the white public school middle class networks in the business world and let them deliver some money . |
| 14 | Beat all these together with a whisk , till all appeareth converted into froth , and let them stand all night . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And do they contradict each other ? |
| 17 | Such reading not only consolidates what learners already know , but helps them develop that general ‘ feel for language ’ which can not be readily taught . |