Example sentences of "[verb] they [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
2 | This also encourages them to chase up the referees . |
3 | take better policy decisions by assisting them to work out the implications of their basic strategy in terms of policies in specific areas , to establish the relative priorities to be given to the different sectors of their programme as a whole , to identify those areas of policy in which new choices can be exercised and to ensure that the underlying implications of alternative courses of action are fully analysed and considered . |
4 | Trickle filter bacteria are well supplied with vital oxygen , allowing them to break down the fish' wastes efficiently . |
5 | Help your children to make the most of their leisure time by encouraging them to take up a sport or join a local youth club |
6 | And to encourage people to work they would make them fill in a job-sheet saying how many forms they had booked in . |
7 | They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe . |
8 | If they 're sick for seven days or less , you may want them to fill in a form saying so . |
9 | Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings . |
10 | The adventurers might have to find some information in Castle Drachenfels to enable them to track down the location of Ghal-Maraz , or they might have to ensure that the Great Enchanter remains safely dead and does n't enter the fray . |
11 | It gives local authorities an additional one hundred million pounds to spend when the low level of inflation is helping them keep down the cost of providing their services . |
12 | I bet they asked them to fill in a form for it |
13 | Tamzin needs them to fill in a questionnaire . |
14 | We not only provide practice in analysing experiences , but give students a glimpse of a more humane society and urge them to push back the boundaries that inhibit them . ’ |
15 | This is a unique chance for them to retain the use of this line and I urge them to keep up the pressure . |
16 | SINGER Patty Smyth attacked two policeman after she caught them beating up a friend in New York . |
17 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
18 | Later we found them chatting over a game of Alma in the Railway Tavern . |
19 | Consequently , early in 1985 we made a number of visits to schools in order to interview non-respondents and to request them to fill in the questionnaire orally . |
20 | Once all the letters are found , the object is to unscramble them to make up the phrase and you can make the first person the winner . |
21 | Quite often they persuade them to give up the hostages . |
22 | He told them to sort out the terrorists by whatever means they chose . |
23 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
24 | The sharp rocks , or moraine , which were stuck in the glaciers caused them to scrape out the valleys much deeper . |
25 | British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants . |
26 | You know , let them die off a bit |
27 | Despite their bare feet , our young guides strolled nonchalantly across these sections , apparently unconcerned that a single slip could send them plummeting down the mountainside . |
28 | ‘ I 've seen 'em loading up the Guineamen ready to sail for Africa , ’ she said , thrusting away the indignity of being shackled , cheering herself with talk . |
29 | Oh I did n't like them I was , I could see them riding up the leg just like that pair I had on that day and in the end they look so grey and they look like |
30 | But I ca n't see them setting up a situation where they 're gon na exploit their own workers |