Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the sailing ship Thomas Bell , which left Funchal on 8 November 1887 and arrived in Hawaii on 14 April 1888 ( 156 days via Cape Horn ) , had 400 emigrants on board and they suffered a great deal from sea-sickness and hunger . |
| 2 | So the women got Anna to open her door and the prince was pushed forward and asked her pardon and promised never to see the French girl again and they had a great drama and Anna consented to be reconciled . |
| 3 | He was an implacable enemy of Ted 's , from the 1 950S when Ted had been Chief Whip , and they had a great row . |
| 4 | Every one is different , everyone has its own pattern of possible rat runs and they take a great deal of er er |
| 5 | There 's a lot of adrenalin flowing , and erm they realise that there are pink bodies on the line , and they take a great deal of care in preparing the outfit before they go . |
| 6 | The point is that they think differently from us ; and we and they make a great team . |
| 7 | These creatures are the heavy armoured tanks of the insect world and they spend a great deal of their time on the ground , barging their way through the vegetable litter , scrabbling in the soil or gnawing into wood . |
| 8 | ‘ In Byrne , Sunderland have a player who could supply that sort of brilliance and they have a great Cup tradition , too . |
| 9 | on the right there , and they have a great rack full of plants standing there . |
| 10 | But they made a great thing with the salt fish . |
| 11 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 12 | But they represent a great slice of gardening history ( no plants , no gardens ) and provide us with a rich , exciting and often colourful tapestry of adventure and discovery going back at least several hundred years . |
| 13 | 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 . |