Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Capitalist swine , ’ she murmured , and sank back into a sleep in which she tossed and stretched and he was sure muttered someone else 's name , but in the morning went with him to a garage and they actually bought a car , albeit second hand , and she let herself be dragged into a travel agency and they booked a holiday to Spain just like anyone else . |
| 2 | It moves very slowly , and they like a play to be fast and exciting . |
| 3 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 4 | And they say a decision to route an ambulance carrying a fatally wounded Catholic man through heavy morning traffic on the Queen 's Bridge was the correct one in the circumstances . |
| 5 | André 's delighted grin brought a resigned smile to her lips , and they caught a cab to one of the casinos , where the roulette tables were buzzing with that particular glittering breed of night-life whose adrenalin flowed in front of the gambling table . |
| 6 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 7 | Romania looked world beaters when they thrashed Wales 5–1 last May , but they dropped a point to the Czechs at the weekend and are notoriously bad away from home . |
| 8 | Their terms of trade are unusual because they have , thus far , little control of income ( mostly fees ) or expenditure ( mostly salaries ) , but they sell a service to the public . |