Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And they shared a laugh , dismounting together in the clatter of the crowded court . |
| 9 | Bailey was married then , to a nice girl from Clapham , and they shared a flat near the Oval in South London . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The family name was Fuller , and John Fuller — who knew nothing of the brewery trade — decided to bring in a Mr. Turner and a Mr. Smith and they formed a partnership which continues still as the well known firm of Fuller , Smith and Turner . |
| 12 | Bell Labs notes that fault tolerance is common in hardware and in operating systems , but generally too costly for many software systems , and says that as far as it knows , these are the first general-purpose software modules , and they set a trend toward low-cost fault-tolerance in user-level software . |
| 13 | An unknown benefactor gave them £100 , and they received a legacy for £200 ‘ to be distributed to the full list of everyone in Fleet jail ’ . |
| 14 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 15 | And they ask a question and somebody 's very open with the answer and they da , they just , sa expand on that answer and then , two or |
| 16 | And they revealed a taxi driver may hold vital evidence about events that night . |
| 17 | They discussed and they reached a conclusion ; as a result a new church school — Curry Rivel Parochial School — was built in Church Street in 1876 , the year in which the first of two Acts was passed making school attendance compulsory . |
| 18 | The US factories had evolved into organisations that set out tightly circumscribed jobs , fixed procedures , absolutely nothing in terms of flexible working , multi-skilling , employee responsiveness — any of those sorts of things — and they took a look at Japanese cost patterns and thought that American industry was just going down the plug . ’ |
| 19 | And they took a mouthful and urgh ! |
| 20 | They helped to propagate a language through which the working class could articulate their frustrations ; they provided radical literature , leaflets and newspapers ; they furnished agitators with greater financial means and mobility than those drawn from the working class ; and they took a lead in establishing underground organizations able to build links between workers in different factories and cities and to survive recurrent police assaults . |
| 21 | I was standing outside laughing , and they took a picture of me standing there laughing . |
| 22 | Brian Clough 's teams are never short of resilience or adaptability , though , and they made a fight of it throughout . |
| 23 | The defendants decided to enter this market and they made a drink called " Keeling 's Old English Advocaat " which was made from Cyprus sherry and dried egg powder , an inferior but cheaper drink . |
| 24 | They reckon arrests were made down but they were down at Beskett Station and they made a couple inside the ground , but I think they were just people running on the pitch you know , they were over enthusiastic . |
| 25 | Ruth assured her that the cake had been delicious , and they made a start on the washing-up . |
| 26 | The Health Committee also considered it and they made a number of points . |
| 27 | They went to see it and came back and had a meeting one night in New York , and they made a list of the fakes . |
| 28 | And they made a fire on it . ’ |
| 29 | There were two Jamaican boys in there and they made a point of crowding the counter , holding their elbows akimbo , so that Shiva was unable to pick up his paper from the pile in front of them . |
| 30 | 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 . |