Example sentences of "[n mass] and they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are light aircraft and they mean one thing ! |
| 2 | But there 's a couple of guys in another division over there that they were quite keen on er aircraft and they spent weeks building these bloody things and then er , and experienced flyer he 'd taken over to the other , other side of the estate when he had a bit of runway over there |
| 3 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 4 | they built , they built a well beaten aircraft and they have n't got half the technical advantages that the West has and their computers has still , practically just got out of the stage . |
| 5 | Allen drove a long stick through the heron and they sat on either side of the fire , turning the spit as they talked . |
| 6 | . But they can lack decisiveness. and they dislike friction and competition . |
| 7 | They carried their offspring and they carried shopping bags . |
| 8 | Each Renault engine costs more than £100,000 and they rocket the 800 brake horse-power car to a top speed of more than 200mph . |
| 9 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 10 | It may be helpful for PFK readers to know that Dupla PO 4 ( Phosphate ) test kits are available in the UK for around £9.30 and they measure Phosphate levels as follows : — 0mg/l , 0.2mg/l , 0.5mg/l , 1.0mg/l and 5.0mg/l . |
| 11 | They 'd been offered something , two or three percent and they 's rejected it and they were threatening strike action . |
| 12 | By 1990 turnover had increased to £150,000 and they had made a profit of £32,000 . |
| 13 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 14 | In my experience , clients will not give up their contacts amongst the trade media and they feel at their most confident when talking to someone from a publication in their own trade or profession . |
| 15 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 16 | and I live in a place where there 's a lot of old people and they come round to us and they tell us they 've been scared the night after |
| 17 | oh Barbados , but we have to seen if their teletext if they let us do , but I 've just talked to Jamaican people and they said their , their friend he got some contact wanting some order , then later on this lady says no it 's best thing to do go |
| 18 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 19 | Even more than most movie men the comedians were men of the people and they sensed what the masses wanted . |
| 20 | I know s I 've chatted to some other people and they 've said the same so you 're not alone . |
| 21 | But she said they 've let it to people and they 've just wrecked the inside of it ! |
| 22 | They know their job , they know their people and they know their territory . |
| 23 | And the dog can stand there and then that 's there 's the three people and they get four each . |
| 24 | Some of the ponies belong to people and they keep them there ‘ on livery ’ . |
| 25 | I do n't bother people and they had best not bother me if they know what 's good for them . |
| 26 | They came over to meet some people and they seemed to be interested . |
| 27 | ‘ We can get to see people and they take our ideas seriously , ’ says Leigh . |
| 28 | They decided , however , that they could not do this during the coming festival of Passover because Jesus was still popular among the people and they did not want to cause unrest . |
| 29 | People were aware their children sometimes made problems for other people and they did n't bring them . |
| 30 | They feel a sense of outrage like English people and they feel guilt over all this . |