Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 2 | They either assumed that what appeared in such a paper was nonsense or establishment propaganda , or they read such papers as the Manchester Guardian , as it was then called . |
| 3 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 4 | Even though most of the working-class women had low skill , repetitive jobs , they picked out certain qualities of these jobs as satisfying by comparison with housework , and they shared this tendency with the middle-class women . |
| 5 | This meant that everyone lived near to one another , and they copied each other exactly . |
| 6 | As a result they , they grow large , they grow aggressive , and they 're highly coloured and they fight each other for access to males . |
| 7 | ‘ Edinburgh citizens , ’ Mr Thin complained , ‘ were advised not to come into the centre of town , and they took this advice very literally . ’ |
| 8 | And they took another driver on and he does a lot of that , the runs there you see . |
| 9 | This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying . |
| 10 | sort of track are contacting the people who done a very good job on the on the public footpath erm and that was actually going through our land , and they done some steps with erm you know erm wooden erm supports in them , er maybe in in conjunction with , was it ? |
| 11 | They disliked having so young a couple in the vicarage and they made that plain . |
| 12 | Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized . |
| 13 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 14 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 15 | AWARD-winning Belfast agency , A.V. Browne turned in a significant increase in sales , despite curtailment of advertising budgets last year , and they made another milestone in another direction . |
| 16 | Jay was now In Love with the impossible Lucy , Dionne went for butch crewcut teenagers , and they hugged each other 's hurt away and made love like some people offer Kleenex and brandy in times of stress . |
| 17 | They had to make policy on the hoof and they reprieved that place . |
| 18 | And they saw each other out of work , too . |
| 19 | They claimed the right to liberate themselves by armed struggle and they saw any recognition of Israel 's legitimacy as contingent on Israeli and American recognition of their own right to self-determination . |
| 20 | He had been her dressmaker since the early thirties and they knew each other very well . |
| 21 | And they claim another woman in the room had drug charges against her dropped in return for supporting the prosecution case . |
| 22 | and they heard this crack , and they did n't think much about it , just as , Rita said what you doing ? |
| 23 | And they know that music so well . |
| 24 | Johnnie Warburton used to work turn-about with him and they enjoyed each other 's company . |
| 25 | He was introduced to her sister , Sue , and they enjoyed each other 's company immensely . |
| 26 | At night she and Charlotte crowded into the cabin with the children and they kept each other warm . |
| 27 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 28 | Technical experiments like stream-of-consciousness had died of inanition some years before , and they left few heirs ; and the poetic tradition of Eliot had been abandoned even by Eliot , who by the 1950s was writing little but plays . |
| 29 | And they had such fun together ! |
| 30 | Congresses and committees did not scrutinize military funding and expenditure , and they had little opportunity to discuss military actions : the government did not announce the ventures in Chad and Uganda ; nor did they disclose training given to Chaddian , Palestinian and perhaps other freedom-fighters ( Tunisian , for example ) . |