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
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