Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 2 | Or they put a sling round them or made a canvass and two supports on the side of it and the sling to be too hard on the cattle 's sides . |
| 3 | It 's difficult , though , because if you talk to adolescent boys in schools they are violently opposed to women 's liberation , or they hate the name women 's liberation , because they are very defensive perhaps about their own masculinity at that age , and their own masculinity is defined very much in terms of being superior to girls and having mums who wait on them at home , so it 's difficult to challenge that kind of supposition at that age . |
| 4 | As was said ealier in this discussion , championship teams do n't sell their class players or they make an effort to hang on to them anyway . |
| 5 | If the old fool does n't die soon enough , or they get the chance of a better deal , it usually ends in divorce. , |
| 6 | The insects either come to a sticky end ; lured by sugary solution onto a sundew which then slowly digests them , or they get the chop in more dramatic fashion after landing in the jaws of a Venus flytrap . |
| 7 | As this is no longer a public holiday , many people arrange either to work on a Bank Holiday in order to have this day off or they take a day of their holiday allocation . |
| 8 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 9 | or they take the house back |
| 10 | Brothers created elaborate practical arrangements to emphasize their equality ; or they divided the household if they thought the implicit pattern of seniority too discrepant with the facts . |
| 11 | The men have just forty seconds to clear the plane or they miss the drop . |
| 12 | The men have just forty seconds to clear the plane or they miss the drop . |
| 13 | Some relationships have already split up before girls realise that their periods have stopped or they feel a bit sick , and they discover they are well and truly pregnant . |
| 14 | Animals , like humans , were either endogamous or exogamous , they preferred the familiar or they preferred the novel . |
| 15 | Old people either dislike having a great fuss made of their birthdays or they love every minute of it . |
| 16 | Principles of restraint restrict the pursuit of good or valuable goals , they exclude action for valid , sound reasons for action , or they enjoin the government to preserve a state of affairs which there are good reasons to change . |
| 17 | Or they elevated the morbidity of the prison-gate crowd to the patriotism of ordinary men and women who ‘ travelled miles to be outside the prison when justice was done ’ . |
| 18 | Either the youngsters have a view of the world that is the complete opposite to that of their seniors , or they decided a man of the church should be left to get closer to the heavens . |
| 19 | And then you they ask you a number of questions , often pretty stupid questions , they go away and write a bit which contains some errors , or they broadcast a bit which does n't seem quite right , and then you feel cross and you say ‘ I 'm never going to speak to that lot again . ’ |
| 20 | Aunt Hettie and Uncle Fred said nothing , bless them , when I puffed my way through a packet of cigarettes or they smelt a hint of beer on my breath . |
| 21 | Either they win the faint gratitude of listeners by reminding them of the original with a faithful remake , or they rip the original to shreds and reassemble it in a manner pleasing to themselves . |
| 22 | You might need to insert interest rates as decimals ( 1 per cent = 0.01 ) and them reformat the block as a percentage . |
| 23 | And they fought the fire until they were finally er had to go out of the tower altogether . |
| 24 | Fluff continued to look after Titch , and even when she grew and became Big Titch , she never forgot her first friend , and they shared a basket , though she persecuted everyone else — feline and human — giving them no peace until she fell asleep , having worn out herself and everyone else . |
| 25 | And they shared a laugh , dismounting together in the clatter of the crowded court . |
| 26 | Bailey was married then , to a nice girl from Clapham , and they shared a flat near the Oval in South London . |
| 27 | At the end of one particularly painful lesson , Miss Hatherby did release them and they stalked the room stiffly , pecking at the furniture and flapping their wings , to Constance 's great delight . |
| 28 | The range decreased to three hundred yards , and they scanned the traffic ahead for a tall man on a small motor-cycle and wearing no crash-helmet . |
| 29 | For them it is a matter of Christian commitment and they serve the Church well and faithfully . |
| 30 | The original band of brothers in the primal horde were excluded from sexual intercourse with any women by their father , and they formed a group , based on homosexual feelings , to perform the act that no one of them could do as a sole individual , namely , to kill their father . |