Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they saw quite a lot more flags hanging out of windows . |
| 2 | I mean our building was n't touched but I I somehow always thought they would n't come there because they were so trapped , but they did and they spent quite a lot of time trying to get those cars going . |
| 3 | They feel a bit beleaguered here , and they cause quite a sensation when they walk about in the streets with their long hair ( the men , I mean ! ) . |
| 4 | And they they failed then you see with cutting the crop with a scythe and they hired then a tractor and binder to cut the crop . |
| 5 | By 1978 British Rail and the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français ( SNC ) had started planning a single track rail tunnel for through rail services , commonly known as the Mousehole , and they put forward a plan to the governments in 1979 . |
| 6 | What happens when it burns or explodes , so the okay , the potassium nitrate and the carbon and the sulphur burn and they give quite a bit of er C O two . |
| 7 | It takes a while for them to actually settle in , and they need quite a lot of support because we do work in teams and they 're quite well established teams with definite personalities . |
| 8 | We are publicized anyway by Eurostep and they do quite a lot of publicity — how effective their publicity is I do n't know , but we our publicity is as a back up to existing publicity . |
| 9 | I could n't tell you what , but they collected quite a lot of money for us and er , and er , er , they were holding things there , er people were holding boxes at the bottom of the gate like and er |