Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they 're pregnant or they 've got a little baby . |
| 2 | Farmers are advised not to stop travellers and vehicles on the road or they risk committing a serious traffic offence . |
| 3 | The district council were monitoring the situation and they hoped to see a satisfactory solution in the near future . |
| 4 | ‘ I first saw his pictures during the punk period and they seemed to have a similar punch , a thriller realism . ’ |
| 5 | And they 've made a good job of tiling have n't they ? |
| 6 | So she went and they 've made a lovely job of it ! |
| 7 | It was a real nice place two years ago ; nothing but luxury houses for the super-rich , but then the snakes bought it and they 've painted a big yellow cross on their runway . |
| 8 | Saatchi brothers salaries have been cut by a half and they 've appointed a new man . |
| 9 | And they 've got a bloody outside toilet have n't they ? |
| 10 | When you look at Lincolnshire and they 've got a Chief Inspector as a force crime prevention officer and they 've got an inspector as a deputy force crime prevention officer , and their crime is a third of ours , or well less than a third of ours , y y you start getting things into perspective and I think they 're trying to put too much work onto a too over-worked task force already . |
| 11 | " They 're always stealing something or other and they 've got a good eye for a thoroughbred . " |
| 12 | ‘ They 've got a policeman in charge of the Ministry of Information , and they 've got a daft Prime Minister in Edith Cresson . |
| 13 | And they 've got a vast learning queue . |
| 14 | And they 've got a nice young fellow to play Ophelia . ’ |
| 15 | she tell you it was a , the answer should have been a hundred and twenty nine and they 've got a thirty one in it yeah |
| 16 | and they 've got a whole market to go |
| 17 | you end up with like all these books and they 've got a different , different sort of er perspective on it and they 've got |
| 18 | Because there 's a special offer erm on erm there 's a , there 's a Forte Hotel in Woodbridge in Suffolk which is a nice hotel and they 've got a special offer for erm five nights for the price of three ! |
| 19 | Erm like any job you have your ups and your downs , it 's very nice when you see people getting better or you 've followed somebody through their pregnancy and they 've got a lovely bouncy baby at the end of it and sometimes it 's sad when you find out that somebody has got a serious illness or you 're looking after people where somebody has died and it , it 's very hard for the people left behind to cope and so that 's very difficult sometimes . |
| 20 | and they 've got a lovely wardrobe in white |
| 21 | and they 've got a lovely beigey mixture , like aran-type wool |
| 22 | And they 've picked a .38 Special out of Lemke 's liver . ’ |
| 23 | Police believe some residents of Blackbird Leys are shielding the culprits and they 've organised a confidential phone line which people can ring without giving their names and addresses . |
| 24 | South Devon Healthcare Trust say it was a sudden and motiveless attack and they 've launched a full inquiry . |
| 25 | ‘ And they 've had a bad press . |
| 26 | Often the councillors are the same people who have gone to live in the pleasanter parts of rural England for peace and quiet , and they tend to take a dim view if local farmers apply for licences to run money-earning , but intrusive , leisure pursuits such as motor bike scrambling , model aeroplane clubs , clay pigeon shooting , go-carting and jet skiing . |
| 27 | Because the governor 's palace was in a state of very sad repair and they had to put a new roof in it . |
| 28 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
| 29 | And they had suffered a great loss when John Crabb , their notable leader , had been captured by the English on his return from his ill-fated venture to the Tay and Perth in support of Mar . |
| 30 | The early Earth-people had not given up on anything ; they had conquered and explored and invented and they had made a marvellous and memorable world . |