Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying .
32 However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania .
33 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 ?
34 They disliked having so young a couple in the vicarage and they made that plain .
35 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 .
36 peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border .
37 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 .
38 Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it …
39 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 .
40 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 .
41 They had to make policy on the hoof and they reprieved that place .
42 And they saw each other out of work , too .
43 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 .
44 He had been her dressmaker since the early thirties and they knew each other very well .
45 And they claim another woman in the room had drug charges against her dropped in return for supporting the prosecution case .
46 and they heard this crack , and they did n't think much about it , just as , Rita said what you doing ?
47 Areas of many square kms can be covered by aa lavas , and they present severe obstacles to anyone trying to cross them .
48 Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore .
49 At their height , and they lasted four days , 10,000 troops were called out .
50 And they know that music so well .
51 They attempted to demonstrate how the Spanish influence was absorbed into the Andean vision of the world and they achieved considerable success .
52 Concordances are often more helpful than dictionaries for determining the precise sense of a word in an author 's vocabulary , and they enable favourite phrases and tricks of style to be identified and catalogued .
53 Johnnie Warburton used to work turn-about with him and they enjoyed each other 's company .
54 He was introduced to her sister , Sue , and they enjoyed each other 's company immensely .
55 Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry .
56 Women and men in this group carry out different tasks within the home and they pursue different leisure pursuits ( men , for example , are more likely to be tinkering with the car or engaging in DIY ) .
57 At night she and Charlotte crowded into the cabin with the children and they kept each other warm .
58 Conventional neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine and noradrenaline are stored in membrane bound vesicles before their release from presynaptic nerves , and they influence postsynpatic cells by interacting with membrane bound receptors on the cell surface .
59 But they made Esther very welcome , and they passed pleasant afternoons by the swimming pool and pleasant evenings on the terrace eating salami , cheese , sausage and salad .
60 Diana met Sarah Ferguson through polo , and they became firm friends
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