Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reverting to my analogy of the fire brigade , either my brigade went on strike over all those pork pies and rich , creamy cakes I used to eat , or they had the wrong directions . |
| 2 | and they shared the same manager . |
| 3 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 4 | Then Peter and John placed their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit . ’ |
| 5 | Some staff added other minor errors or disagreements but it soon emerged that some departments did not think that the report was fair and they criticized the general conclusion relating to their department . |
| 6 | Then the moment came when the tow line was released and they savoured the eerie feeling of riding the rising thermals . |
| 7 | They may be able to make something of that , and they deserve the best luck going for them . |
| 8 | On and on they flew until day turned into dusk and they reached the big supermarket on the edge of the town . |
| 9 | The king 's mother and sister took her to their hut and they prepared the finest clothes for her . |
| 10 | And they took the thirty pieces of silver , the sum at which the precious One was priced by the children of Israel … ’ |
| 11 | Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron . |
| 12 | The Daimler was parked at the end of the towpath , and they took the same road . |
| 13 | Penny only wanted a West Country holiday , not the least ingratiating thing about her , and they took the same cottage that his Mum had rented , and they stopped , he and Penny , for the same coffee and the same stroll round the monument . |
| 14 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 15 | There God dwelt among them and they saw the visible manifestation of his presence . |
| 16 | And they saw the Old Bill nicking us and letting the coons go . |
| 17 | Crawford and the rest of the cast began rehearsals with Gene Kelly and choreographer Michael Kidd in February 1968 , and they began the ninety-day shoot on 15 April . |
| 18 | They needed the captain back on the rails immediately , and they knew the best way to do this was let him simmer down for 24 hours . |
| 19 | Dong did as he was told , and they dropped the lifeless body into the shallow impression in the ground . |
| 20 | He took careful aim with his second barrel at a smaller buffalo that had begun circling in dismay , and they heard the dull thud of his successful shot echo clearly across the plain . |
| 21 | And they heard the Prime Minister pay tribute to them when they sat in on Question Time . |
| 22 | They are unproven and overexaggerated and they miss the essential point . |
| 23 | ‘ The audience always begin laughing early on and they miss the last line , ’ said Den . |
| 24 | A snaking black corridor takes the audience along to claim their prizes , and they reach the final chamber to claim a glass of Guinness . |
| 25 | What , what 'd happened is that there 's a concrete span right at the back , and they 've the inner course off it , but the external bit built off the door frame . |
| 26 | And they managed the seven wicket win over Brigade without the services of professional Raman Lamba , who is not eligible for cup matches . |
| 27 | However , boys will be boys and they enjoyed the fresh air and the sport of fishing , in fact the boys had been known to fish after dark at the newty pond which was very illegal ! |
| 28 | The triggers for Britain 's nuclear bombs were tested within their thick concrete walls and they housed the first experiments into radar.The buildings , on a remote spit of land on the Suffolk coast , may not be the oldest but they are certainly among the most historic and sinister in the ownership of the National Trust.They are on Orford Ness , a desolate wildlife haven , which has become the Trust 's latest acquisition at a cost of £3.5 million.Yesterday , in pouring rain and silence broken only by the eerie shriek of gulls , the buildings were shown to journalists for what is thought to be the first time since they were erected.Strands of barbed wire and a Ministry of Defence ‘ keep out ’ notice are now the only remaining evidence of the tight security , overseen by armed guards , which surrounded one of Britain 's most secret research establishments . |
| 29 | and they knocked the old farmhouse , they had a house and the farmhouse , they had a farmhouse you know and |
| 30 | As many readers will be aware , Uaru are Amazonian fish , and they prefer the soft acid water of their natural habitat , especially if you are going to breed them . |