Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Len Snow , Boateng 's agent says : ‘ His principles have n't changed — he has just adapted them to the '90s . ’ |
| 2 | Allison , who took over Rovers four games ago after the sacking of Dennis Rofe , has already hauled them off the bottom of the table and claims they are going to be a force to be reckoned with . |
| 3 | In addition , two figures of saints from the Berenson collection will be brought into the study as Carlo Volpe has also connected them with the Valle Romita altarpiece . |
| 4 | The stock exchange has even allowed them in the past in Britain . |
| 5 | For some reason though , the evil Krip does n't have the sense to smash all the records and has instead scattered them over the island . |
| 6 | The House of Lords has concluded that our Sunday trading laws are unclear and has therefore referred them to the European Court of Justice to clarify whether they are compatible with European law . |
| 7 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 8 | Those that had children struggled desperately to keep them within the state school system and also to see the frequent failures of others to succeed in this as being somehow a rather nasty disease , with compassion and sorrow the appropriate response , rather than the fierce bell-like anger they would all have produced reflexively only ten years before . |
| 9 | Do you think though , perhaps you could have done more to keep them in the Party ? |
| 10 | To please him , she travelled , learnt languages , read all the guide books to the cities he insisted they visit , became a sexual virtuoso , developed opinions on the classics and on contemporary literature , and learnt never to voice them at the dinner table unless asked . |
| 11 | A mother does her level best to warn them about the ever present dangers |
| 12 | The problem that exists is that factions of governors who are members of the European Central Bank and who disagree with its policies may join together to frustrate them at the national level . |
| 13 | We 'd never produce budgets without erm having thoroughly discussed them with the Treasurer and saying to the Treasurer 's Department of the County Council , which is a very conservative department I have to say ( with a small c ) ; it 's not given to wild flurries of excitement and imagination . |
| 14 | When their wives strayed too far out of line they did indeed divorce them in the custom of the country but not before administering a thumping to all the parties concerned . |
| 15 | A spokesman said detectives hoped that if the suspects were not the terrorists they — or someone who recognised them — would come forward to eliminate them from the inquiry . |
| 16 | And then erm one afternoon we went in a dug out canoe erm to look for crocodiles and we did actually see them on the banks of the river as we were going down in our canoe , so that was quite exciting . |
| 17 | Though no amount of apologising was going to excuse the fact that she had deliberately misled them , even given that she had only misled them from the best of motives — so that they should not worry . |
| 18 | When bits of them broke off you had only to plunge them into the earth and they grew into new cactuses . |
| 19 | they start to ring their friends up when they 've just left them during the day , fine |
| 20 | Oh we 've still got them in the demijohns yet |
| 21 | You 've still got 'em round the dock now . |
| 22 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 23 | But they are there they 've even got them in the warehouse |
| 24 | The Committee had simply patted them on the back like spoilt children and told them , ‘ Now just send your children back to school . ’ |
| 25 | You 've certainly had them in the past , ’ she reminded him , ignoring the small , unexpected twist of pain inside her as she said the words . |
| 26 | Derek Jefferson had certainly whizzed them round the factory , and was already in the final assembly area . |
| 27 | Whatever their regrets at the time , however , the Americans had certainly lost them by the early 1950s as they came increasingly to value the sterling area as a buffer for the dollar . |
| 28 | There were none because , after volunteering to bring Alina 's file from the records department up to the chief investigator 's desk , Pavel had quietly removed them in the corridor . |
| 29 | We have yet to integrate them one with another , and we have yet to relate them to the practical demands of learning and teaching foreign languages . |