Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insofar as they provided cheap goods of low quality for the coolies of eastern countries , who could not afford anything better they performed a service to the world and created for themselves a trade which conformed to their opportunities and resources . |
| 2 | Suddenly they heard a noise behind them . |
| 3 | she 's been contributing that 's one reason one , she 's , discovered other things , this morning somebody turned up apparently they took a loan out |
| 4 | Apparently they provide a match day refreshment service : ‘ it 's marvellous stuff , like a Victorian soup kitchen , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Er but in our London office , apparently they do a lot of inheritance tax planning because of the size of estates , and they actually invite the children in , and say to the children look , you know , if erm you die , the estate will be devalued by forty thousand because of tax , er if you want to make provision the , the er the contract is still written on the erm , the erm individuals ' lives , but it can then be erm paid by the children , so your children can then pay the premiums . |
| 6 | Well apparently they have a lawn and they play it . |
| 7 | Before long they opened a grocery-cum-delicatessen in a good position as far as passing trade was concerned . |
| 8 | Many clients tell us that deep down they know a panic attack , or any particular acute symptom of anxiety , is not harmful but they are still unable to overcome their fears . |
| 9 | Perhaps they took a train to the north , and lived a quiet , happy life together there . |
| 10 | Perhaps they decided a bakery is n't the right sort of thing for it . |
| 11 | Obviously they had a market for it . |
| 12 | People have been very generous in the parish and the village , obviously they think a lot of their church , but one suggestion that was put forward was if every man , woman and child gave the equivalent of twelve pounds to the fund then it would be raised easily , and I think that it 's quite likely that people will come forward er in a generous way I 'm sure . |
| 13 | successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it |
| 14 | And when security forces were called in they found a booby trap device containing one 1lb of Semtex explosives under the car . |
| 15 | So they devised a lot of things themselves to give them a a a helping hand . |
| 16 | So they negotiated a takeover of Thomas Kerfoot , a well-established supplier of generic products , which instantly gave Medeva the largest market share in the UK . |
| 17 | So this was so they had a pizza sort of shared it out between ten people . |
| 18 | So they had a meeting and decided they would put a big net over the entrance to the valley so that it would never be able to get in again . |
| 19 | So they made a mistake filling it in ? |
| 20 | They waited but nothing happened so they made a fuss . |
| 21 | So they ask a lot of schools . |
| 22 | So they took a list of , they took your name ? |
| 23 | So they took a vote — and picked Bernard . |
| 24 | So they dig a trench right down and this is the number of the trench . |
| 25 | So they put a tube across there . |
| 26 | So they put a torch to the Mason 's wagon and , as the flames swept through the wooden base , a shower of warped and molten coins cascaded out on to the ground . |
| 27 | right now how many pizzas are we going to need so they get a quarter , how many makes a quarter ? |
| 28 | So they swing a bit of incense about , and wait for the workmen to come back and investigate . |
| 29 | So they breathed a sigh of relief when Bet Lynch , his missus , said she 'd stay behind as manager . |
| 30 | 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 . |