Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other boys either had enormous appetites for books of many kinds , or they had native wit . |
| 2 | A toweringly tall man , he echoed Citrine 's sparse , puritanical personality and they shared common ideals of public service . |
| 3 | Even though most of the working-class women had low skill , repetitive jobs , they picked out certain qualities of these jobs as satisfying by comparison with housework , and they shared this tendency with the middle-class women . |
| 4 | This meant that everyone lived near to one another , and they copied each other exactly . |
| 5 | ‘ Men were rescued after one of the rafts collided with a landing stage and they received immediate support from two of our support vessels . |
| 6 | Their cases were featured in a British Section Christmas card campaign in 1990 and they received 1,704 cards as a result of the appeal . |
| 7 | Moreover , manual workers tended to be paid benefits for shorter periods of time and they received smaller amounts than non-manual workers . |
| 8 | These were the first nuclear stations to be built anywhere in the United Kingdom for some time , and they attracted special attention . |
| 9 | They recognised that cases of alleged child abuse put great stress on all concerned , and they offered pastoral support to all children , parents , police , lawyers , the medical profession , social workers and anxious onlookers . |
| 10 | These statements suggested that schools and LEAs should engage in an analysis of the curriculum and they offered possible kinds of analyses , as well as prescriptions for the curriculum itself . |
| 11 | Prop Dean Sampson scored first for the visitors after three minutes and they took complete command when centre Tony Smith struck twice to make it 18–0 . |
| 12 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 13 | ‘ Edinburgh citizens , ’ Mr Thin complained , ‘ were advised not to come into the centre of town , and they took this advice very literally . ’ |
| 14 | And they took another driver on and he does a lot of that , the runs there you see . |
| 15 | This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying . |
| 16 | However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania . |
| 17 | They disliked having so young a couple in the vicarage and they made that plain . |
| 18 | Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized . |
| 19 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 20 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 21 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
| 22 | AWARD-winning Belfast agency , A.V. Browne turned in a significant increase in sales , despite curtailment of advertising budgets last year , and they made another milestone in another direction . |
| 23 | Jay was now In Love with the impossible Lucy , Dionne went for butch crewcut teenagers , and they hugged each other 's hurt away and made love like some people offer Kleenex and brandy in times of stress . |
| 24 | They had to make policy on the hoof and they reprieved that place . |
| 25 | And they saw each other out of work , too . |
| 26 | They claimed the right to liberate themselves by armed struggle and they saw any recognition of Israel 's legitimacy as contingent on Israeli and American recognition of their own right to self-determination . |
| 27 | He had been her dressmaker since the early thirties and they knew each other very well . |
| 28 | and they heard this crack , and they did n't think much about it , just as , Rita said what you doing ? |
| 29 | Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore . |
| 30 | At their height , and they lasted four days , 10,000 troops were called out . |