Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know there might ha , there might have been three hundred ya , three hundred yards of houses semis and detached and they had a bit of land , but all the back of that , that was theirs ! |
| 2 | At outcrop the sandstones are visibly porous and they provide a good aquifer in the Belfast region . |
| 3 | Certainly the style and type of projects in the schools are different and they offer a markedly different approach to user education in schools than was prevalent before the present period of research funding . |
| 4 | Compared to the brothel prostitutes , they are dowdy and unkempt and they have a lot more problems with the police . |
| 5 | The harvest was early and they had a pre-season tour . |
| 6 | This was a good idea of Johnny 's which they did , which did before was this corridor , these lights up here that one when it 's re-doing , but there 's one , two , three , four , five , six and they framed a large advertising poster . |
| 7 | The bar was crowded but they found a table in the centre , amidst noisy tourists . |
| 8 | Er , they were immediately told to go away and put that right and they chose a different supplier . |
| 9 | Further investigation in other clinics were negative except for ultrasound scanning which revealed gall stones in three and they had a cholecystectomy . |
| 10 | Most of the moneylenders and pawnbrokers were Jewish and they had a reputation for meanness . |
| 11 | Erm the other thing was that the people at senior level need to be reminded , if they do have a major problem erm that 's David and Malcolm , erm where , if they 've got a rather difficult case and it 's urgent and they want a , they do n't wan na have to put it on a , on a fax , they want , they need it there and then erm , and they do n't like the telephone call facility , I said well , well that 's primarily for consultants . |
| 12 | ‘ People come here aged maybe 50 or 60 and their blood pressure goes down to what it was in adolescence , they are no longer constipated , digestive problems seem to disappear , their sex lives improve , their eyes are shiny and they have a feeling of optimism instead of carrying a heavy load of despondency . |
| 13 | The debates may have achieved little but they marked a significant turning point . |
| 14 | It was only discovered because somebody left a film camera running on an aquarium in which these fish were present and they noticed a blur and when the film was slowed down and analyzed it turned out that this was happening , that a little sneak was going in , instantly ejaculating , and zooming out . |
| 15 | In fact the Carpet Band are n't shit at all and they prompt a series of stage invasions that persist until singer Tom Hingley threatens to leave the stage . |
| 16 | I think it depends what members of society we 're talking about , right , if people are educated and they have a way forward to improve their understanding , then they become less and less involved with a |
| 17 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 18 | Twenty years too late and they found a thousand ways to stop the rise of Hitler , it was the only way for them to keep sane , the survivors . |
| 19 | The bureau is seen by many Asian people as a government agency for white people only , and as their English is poor and they have a different cultural background , special efforts need to be made to attract these potential clients , who often have complex problems . |
| 20 | The new album is unbelievable ; they 're so adventurous and they have a habit of pulling it all off , whichever area they go into . ’ |
| 21 | Two safebreakers are on their way to open a safe and they have a fight . |
| 22 | Flat flakes of gold are more difficult to trap as their weight to surface area is small and they have a tendency to escape over the edge . |
| 23 | These are similar to multiples except that the qualifying number of stores is five and they sell a wider range of merchandise . |
| 24 | In the First Test , the Scottish first-time tackling had been excellent , but in Brisbane they allowed the Wallabies to run a couple of yards too far and they paid a high price . |
| 25 | And , I talked to other publishers erm , including a very large one which will be nameless and they have a pretty good spread and their experience was the same as ours . |
| 26 | The architects were exponents of what was known as Arts and Crafts Gothic and they produced a graceful stone-built church with a nave , 105 feet long , side aisles and a hexagonal chancel with five lancet windows . |
| 27 | Television stardom ( Man About The House is soon to be released on video ) ; holidays in America ( her husband is American and they spend a lot of time over there ) ; work in Los Angeles ( last year she appeared in Alan Aykbourn 's Henceforward . |
| 28 | SYDNEY WOODERSON and Zola Budd did not have much in common but they knew a special achievement and a peculiar failure . |
| 29 | These areas retained the nineteenth-century characteristics which had already focused the reformers ' minds : they were tight-knit , high-density , congested , smoky , dirty and they presented a scene of old and obsolete buildings . |
| 30 | Cos that was about , that must have been about erm er I 'd say time about , yes I should say about nineteen , nineteen thirty four and they built a pipeline out from the sewer outfall and they put two dolphins out there , and they reckon that the water , when it 's purified just to go into the river was really clean water . |