Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] they [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a lot of joiners up from Paisley and they employed a lot of local labour as well . |
| 2 | I know about these pirate recordings and they cause a lot of trouble — this is something we have to be very careful about with our CD videos — but I know that sometimes there are things that we can never recapture and it is understandable that people will want to have them . |
| 3 | If you force people to choose between a family and a job I suppose , you know , women lots of women choose the family erm the only way women will achieve more educationally is to be able to combine the two things and not always have to make these crippling decisions and choices between two things which most human beings want , so there is a lot of money being spent on research into sex inequality and so on , and that 's encouraging , but I think it 's being spent in slightly the wrong way and I think there 's a tendency to evade the crucial issues which are , of course , rather deep social issues about the organization of the family and work and they take a lot of changing , so I am ambivalent about that one . |
| 4 | Do they see erm , if , if they migrate to the city in the urban areas then they realize they wo n't get a job , and have a job straight away , er well paying job but by actually living in the area they would and taking in at a job and they get a lot of contacts and then eventually after a period of time they job . |
| 5 | It 's the entertainment business and they have a lot of power which they can , and do , abuse . ’ |
| 6 | A reshuffle took Anderson into midfield and they looked a lot more lively . |
| 7 | Yes that used to but sometimes they used to bring it up the river and they use a lot the ballast we er did dredge for erm , for the first part of Cliff Quay , used it when they built that . |
| 8 | Oh yeah , we 've got the analysis we 've got the questionnaires Okay what we 're gon na look at now is we gon na look at the work of Honey and Munnford and what Honey and Munnford spent a lot of time researching was people 's learning sides and they spent a lot of research and what they found out is that there are four different learning sides and we all learn in different ways . |
| 9 | The farm hatches about 200,000 trout a year and they need a lot of looking after . |
| 10 | They were five or ten rupees a packet and they hurt a lot and I had some internal injuries . |
| 11 | Because you say someone with a large family and they need a lot of money , you see someone with a large family |
| 12 | That mathematicians had a very very hard time and they got a lot of things wrong they went off down the wrong track for hundreds of years before |