Example sentences of "and they [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | And they dig a packet up . |
| 4 | I drew a fine border around all three gift tags to emphasise the design , and they contain a selection of flowers : a fuchsia with one of its own leaves ; the leaves of some old man 's beard and some cotton flowers ; some phlox and its leaves . |
| 5 | Choke up at The Price Of Fame : ‘ I give ‘ em everything and they stick a knife in my back . ’ |
| 6 | Oxford were far from their best and they 've a chance for another warm up tonight … |
| 7 | Oxford were far from their best and they 've a chance for another warm up tonight … |
| 8 | Here are a couple who are doing very awkward cooking over an open fire because their cooker has packed in and they can get a new one only in terms of a loan which is compulsorily payable by deduction from their , from their pension every week and they 've a Scot 's dread of debt . |
| 9 | And , and all these tests and they 've a project here and this , that and the other |
| 10 | It 's all built in and they breathe a sigh of relief . |
| 11 | and they take a suitcase each |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Yes erm I do n't know if I mentioned you a question properly er right there were young lads in there they be young lads in that lodge do this and they jump up and they make a decision quickly . |
| 14 | Of course yes I know it encourages the pigeons and they make a mess but anything to beautify the inner city . |
| 15 | This attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor Mum has to do all the washing , is really quite , quite misguided because it , it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons , and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 16 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 17 | But he was worried more about the waste then then ours contract That 's what he was cos there was a lot of waste on the old tables , and they make a bit more waste than on these new tables there . |
| 18 | That 's the only reason that they can afford to do it , and they make a packet on top of it . |
| 19 | They run about so and they make a lot of noise , you know how children do , and I 'm afraid Jarvis will get tired of it . |
| 20 | Courses are of eight , 12 or 20 days for different age groups from 14 upwards , and they earn a mention in the new National Curriculum . |
| 21 | And they cover a multitude of them . |
| 22 | But these characters interact like chemicals : put two in a room together and there 's an explosion : put another two in the same room and they form a kind of oil . |
| 23 | He descends down to the people , and they form a ring around him . |
| 24 | Fortunately , the British can now buy them and they form a basis for this kind of pizza . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Those clays in fact go right across the hillside there , and they cause a lot of problems because they slope inland , and over Ritchie Hill , coming out of Newhaven , the road there is nearly always during the winter months broken by cracks which open up , and has in fact been subject to considerable reconstruction this last summer . |
| 27 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
| 28 | And they smoke a bit |
| 29 | It moves very slowly , and they like a play to be fast and exciting . |
| 30 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |