Example sentences of "they make a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They assimilate , they analyze , they consider and then they make a decision or act on things . |
| 2 | Of course yes I know it encourages the pigeons and they make a mess but anything to beautify the inner city . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But coloured girls , they make a gang and defend each other or beat others up … |
| 6 | So here 's the hypothesis to explain that ellipsis is confined to constituents where constituents are just what they sound like , genuine components of a larger thing which is signalled by sticking brackets , labelled brackets round them so they make a phrase and you can do certain things with them . |