Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] they [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many elderly people become so deeply attached to their animals , however , that when they lose them they go through a very real and depressing bereavement experience ; so every effort should be made to help them to keep their animals properly fed , groomed and exercised when they begin to find this difficult to cope with themselves . |
| 2 | Maybe they ca n't pay the the 'leccy bill and they 're in rent arrears and you know it 's Christmas and the kids want everything they see on the television . |
| 3 | Districts can buy what they want from a nearby district or a teaching hospital rather than attempt to provide everything in their own area . |
| 4 | They have reported what they know about the number of minke whales in the sea , but have made no recommendation as to how many of them might safely be slaughtered — or ‘ harvested ’ in the unpleasant terminology of the whalers . |
| 5 | The other of course we have to know what they want in the we want to know what they want in their ad . |
| 6 | We have to make them concentrate what they have on the job in hand . |
| 7 | of course it is , apparently say what they like about the Green Party but at least that 's one thing they 're doing something |
| 8 | Do you know what they say about the Fontana di Trevi ? ’ |
| 9 | Looking at the guards in their bumble-bee uniforms and at their guns , I do n't know what they do to the burglars , but they scare the hell out of me . |
| 10 | They feel that they should know what they want in a room from the very beginning , and feel incompetent if they can not make up their minds right away . |
| 11 | As the constitutional authorities gradually detach themselves from wholehearted support for our system of democracy so they envisage the judges assuming a role of extended significance in defending liberty and in checking what they regard as the misuse of political power . |
| 12 | There are various steps when you 're training somebody they go through a number of steps . |
| 13 | It was a pity , because her parents were n't bad sorts ; like his own , they just believed everything they read in the Daily Telegraph . |
| 14 | In hide-and-seek , a number of people agree for a period of time to abstract from living what they know of the ‘ hiding ’ function ( i.e. that people can be ‘ hiders ’ and ‘ seekers ’ and that places can be ‘ hiding places ’ ) and to behave , for the time being , as if only that function mattered . |
| 15 | They even talk aloud to themselves and to adults , who will never betray what they hear of the Walter Mitty dreams of their future lives . |
| 16 | They are typically determined to bring about change , to introduce reforms and to reverse what they see as the mistakes of the past . |
| 17 | Goodey has not looked at it satisfactorily as far as I 'm concerned and as far as many of the scheme members are concerned , I mean he has concluded that the employers are still entitled to er do what they like with the surplus , the only thing that he recommends that they do it with the approval of the regulator himself , but he the other thing that the |
| 18 | In the first public comment by a Cabinet minister on Tory tactics in a hung Parliament , he said it ‘ depends what they put in the Queen 's Speech ’ . |
| 19 | NHS staffing will also be reformed with more in-service training and teams of accredited specialists replacing what they describe as a ‘ consultant-led hierarchy . ’ |
| 20 | The Russian President and the G7 leaders have forged what they describe as a long-term partnership . |
| 21 | We now consider what they imply for the analysis of tacit collusion . |
| 22 | Men and women can believe whatever they like about the nature of God , and worship whomsoever they like , from trees to cows to Mohammed , but in the privacy of their own homes . |
| 23 | People kept saying , ‘ Oh , well , the schools have got to justify everything they do to the public , they 've got to be accountable . ’ |
| 24 | Right they 're getting everything they want at the moment because erm er ease the situation . |
| 25 | The latter now choose to use what they regard as the more salubrious transportation of the motor car or the aeroplane . |
| 26 | They are busily employed ‘ teaching the financiers how to do what they want within the law , advising on the chances they are taking and how to best cover themselves ’ . |
| 27 | This is a response from workers who are perhaps seeking a respite from a tedious job , or who wish to defy what they regard as an oppressive management . |
| 28 | ‘ But before Derry can be made a major European city it 's important that the people of that place are proud of themselves and their city and know what they want for the city . ’ |
| 29 | And you know what they say about every cloud having a silver lining — well could young Joey Beecham be United 's ray of hope ? |
| 30 | As North 's tawdry tale unfolded one was reminded of the 1962 novel Seven Days in May — which tells how a group of disaffected American generals plan to overthrow what they see as a weak and ineffective president by a military coup . |