Example sentences of "[verb] they [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully they will go there as champions but I would love to see them win the Irish Cup , ’ said Flanagan . |
| 2 | Made them envy the lucky swells who would be escorting her to nightclubs and restaurants , but also gave them a sense that she was n't stuck up , that she was a genuine person . |
| 3 | Personal experiences made them reject the new truism that the children of fatherless families become delinquent . |
| 4 | Maggie stared at him and Ana held out her hand , allowing them to see the glittering ring at last . |
| 5 | The question , therefore , was how to satisfy the aspirations of the political groupings , without allowing them to gain the upper hand ; how to make use of their mobilizing capacities , without these being used to ends other than those approved by the Commander-in-Chief , Generalísimo Franco . |
| 6 | The elections were conducted under a new electoral law passed by the NUP-controlled Assembly in October 1989 , under which additional seats were given to the larger parties , thus allowing them to gain the maximum number of seats with the minimum of votes . |
| 7 | Surely they would n't make them go the whole distance in the dark ? |
| 8 | Right , now they 're both ethers try and name them first in naming them take the biggest hydro-carbon chunk that you can find and pretend that that was an alkane so the smaller chunk then becomes the substituant . |
| 9 | All of which prompted the following official question from Liberal Democrat housing spokesman Frank Doran : ‘ That in view of the danger which faces council members from drowning and/or mugging , arrangements be made to provide members with wet suits and powerful torches to enable them to visit the amphibious staff on that floor of the building . ’ |
| 10 | For those without a car , there are daily coach tours to enable them to visit the surrounding areas . |
| 11 | The Underwriters should be advised of any cases where under-insurance exists , to enable them to take the appropriate action . |
| 12 | More engineering has to be built into these units than in lower temperature ones to enable them to withstand the higher temperature . |
| 13 | In the meantime , the banks which lent the money to the dealers to enable them to pay the vast prices of the boom period are being very patient in waiting for their money , as it was partly their fault that a bubble economy was created in Japan . |
| 14 | It 's helping them to understand the immense pressures on them to stay forever in the closet . |
| 15 | Callaghan seemed to be implying that it was not enough to offer young people a broad liberal curriculum in school , if such a curriculum did not prepare them to face the unthinking anonymity of the factory production line . |
| 16 | Her letter also asked them to reimburse the clamping fee , postage costs and compensation for her ‘ time and distress ’ . |
| 17 | A few seconds more to instruct them to move the blue box . |
| 18 | We do n't encourage them to give up their other sports , we just want them to have the same chance in tennis . ’ |
| 19 | The first is not chronological but logical ; that is , it will set out how , having invented the six criteria with which I began Chapter 8 , I have tried to meet them using the passive avoidance task . |
| 20 | She accused me of instructing them to dig the wrong grave , which I did n't and I immediately defended myself and said : ‘ Mary , I did not . |
| 21 | His persuasion , combined with recurring unemployed demonstrations , moved them to introduce the Unemployed Workmen Act 1905 . |
| 22 | Within the development zone new incentives need to be devised both to attract high calibre general practitioners and other primary health care workers to the inner city and to encourage them to provide the right kind of services . |
| 23 | got cod roe and fish cakes for supper and bought four salmon heads ( OH how I hate those glazed eyes looking at me when first one steams them to get the good flesh off ) for soup . |
| 24 | Further , that integration is to be made more seamless over the coming year when IBM will begin merging OS/2 and AIX , enabling them to use the same database and share application development tools . |
| 25 | I have a very observant Afrikaans friend , a medical doctor , also a great admirer of Mr.X , who maintains that all top-class golfers walk on the insides of their feet , thus enabling them to maintain the right shin post without effort , as against the bandy-legged player , who finds it very difficult to keep his right knee firm on the backswing . |
| 26 | Finally , there are a few killers that have been able to develop a special tolerance for certain poisons , enabling them to eat the noxious prey without ill-effects . |
| 27 | This protects users ' investments in equipment by enabling them to buy the enhanced management and security of higher Tiers as their requirements dictate . |
| 28 | The crowd at Darlington 's home game bought a total of £150-worth of tickets for the prize draw , and organisers say the warm reception they received helped them endure the icy conditions . |
| 29 | Kettering persuaded him to come South and he helped them win the Southern League ( Eastern ) Championship in 1927–28 and 1928–29 . |
| 30 | Their solitary life meant that they were in the forefront of the new mystical spirit of the fourteenth century , and through The Ladder of Perfection Hilton helped them to graft the new spirituality onto the old Benedictine pieties . |