Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb base] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They often have expensive toys they 've grown out of or they 've records and tapes they do not listen to anymore . |
| 2 | They grow out of their clothes very quickly or they have clothes which they think are no longer fashionable . |
| 3 | You wo n't get a good one in England unless you bring it back yourself They 're kept too cold , or they have chemicals injected into them to delay the ripening , or something . |
| 4 | Even with the legal penalties that exist , people go to great lengths to avoid paying taxes legally by finding loopholes in the tax laws ; or they evade taxes by illegally cheating the tax authorities . |
| 5 | They actually look for strong leaders , or they want rules because they feel insecure without them . |
| 6 | The largest size can be inflated with air to form a cushion , a couple of the others have storage pockets of other items and they hold liquids up to 70°C if needed for use as body warmers . |
| 7 | They form spontaneously in the waters of our planet without the elaborate ‘ machinery ’ that DNA needs ; and they develop flaws spontaneously , some of which can be replicated in subsequent layers of crystal . |
| 8 | The peoples of these republics — Uzbeks , Kazakhs , Kirgiz , Tajiks and Turkmenis — are the descendants of the great Mongol empires of medieval times and they speak languages that are of Turkic ( or in the case of the Tajiks , Iranian ) origin . |
| 9 | They buy unleaded petrol , they buy aerosol sprays which do not contain damaging propellants and they boycott shops selling beef products which have involved the destruction of South American rainforests . |
| 10 | They are large and numerous and they contain islands that contain lakes that contain islands until the tatters of the coastline fray into the cold northern sea . |
| 11 | He says the course is really tight and they reach speeds of over a hundred miles an hour . |
| 12 | Scientists are excited by this computer approach to archaeology and they 've plans to reconstruct other great buildings of the past bringing them to life once again . |
| 13 | ‘ They tell lies to their daughters and they teach daughters to tell lies to themselves … |
| 14 | The man comforts her and they blow kisses to each other during an intimate phone call in which she tells of her marriage misery . |
| 15 | Bankruptcy proceedings also involve lots of spending on lawyers and accountants , and they distract managers from running the business . |
| 16 | The plants grow naturally in impoverished peat bogs , and they devour insects as a source of protein . |
| 17 | He tells her his complete story and they become lovers : ‘ I realised this must be the beginning of my healing ’ . |
| 18 | I mean we have dealings with solicitors for all sorts of things , asking for reports and we send a lot of notes away to have a lot of er medical opinion reports and they take ages to come back . |
| 19 | But the mass media select which events to cover and they take decisions about how those events will be presented ; they therefore not only inform us about ( a small selection of ) events but their presentation of those events will also consist of their explanations and interpretations of those events . |
| 20 | erm another area of my work is as I er writing workshops , the writing workshops are very different from the normal writing workshops there based at galleries and they take groups of people round an exhibition recording their comments on either one particular picture or the exhibition as a whole and then with my help we put the comments into poems that are then displayed along side the exhibits , erm this work I do with erm all sorts of people with children people with special needs , disabled people and , and that 's really where my interest in art erm comes in and I find that its a great leveller for people who would like to express themselves and have perhaps have difficulty by aiding , by looking at paintings and being able to see perhaps emotions or images that they , they feel themselves , so in all areas erm I find painting in my areas of work , painting influences me and has done for as , as long as I can remember . |
| 21 | We 're in regular touch with Oxfordshire trading standards and they take samples at random . |
| 22 | and they take pictures what , with |
| 23 | ‘ I need a really simple room to sleep in , 'cos if I sleep with things overhanging or weird , too complicated visual stuff , my eyes open and they make things out of it . |
| 24 | ‘ You tell them , and they make inquiries . ’ |
| 25 | During this process , cells influence each other and they form fibres . |
| 26 | If they are attacked by one of their main enemies , trigger fish , the column breaks and they form circles , pincers outwards , like pioneer wagon trains crossing the prairies of the American Wild West , defending themselves against attack by Indians . |
| 27 | They specialise in squalor ; they do nothing to help business ; they can not collect their rents ; they did not collect the rates ; they do not collect the community charge ; and they keep homes empty . |
| 28 | And they raise welts . |
| 29 | They do n't drink , they do n't smoke , they do n't take drugs and they like women . |
| 30 | If we look at regional Governments across Europe that do n't have to go cap in hand every time to some deadbeat in White Hall , right , they go straight to Europe and they network across Europe and they exchange ideas and things happen . |