Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu . |
| 32 | ‘ We expect them to go home now and say , ‘ Mamma gim me lamb ’ . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ For , ’ she put down , ‘ I want to go there as humble McAllister who keeps the house clean , dressed the doll and made and embroidered the baby clothes , not as the American Princess doing the gracious , ladling our Papa 's money , not one penny of which I have earned , smiling and patronising those not so fortunate as myself , and then leaving them to go home to the embassy — to forget them ! ’ |
| 34 | A group of students , chanting and carrying placards , milled round in the road outside Mr Rowse 's house , accosting his patients , pleading with them to go home , abjure the Devil and seek proper medical attention . |
| 35 | ‘ Still want them to go home in one hour ? ’ |
| 36 | You just want to tell them to go home ! |
| 37 | The colonists had enough newspapers to take any visiting Englishman aback , and were developing industries fast enough to disturb the balance of the integrated commercial system : in 1699 Americans were forbidden to spin woollens for export , even to another colony ; in 1732 a similar limitation was placed on the manufacture of hats and caps ; and in 1750 the Iron Act allowed them to smelt iron ore into pig iron but forbade them to go any further in processing it , though in the event the American colonies were producing more iron and steel than Britain by 1775 . |
| 38 | Recession , a crisis in American retailing and the tarnishing of many once-snobby luxury brands are making them think again . |
| 39 | So er we achieved something there , even if it you know it it put the frighteners up the chap , police looking out the windows and you know , saw our reaction when the police turn up , it makes them think again . |
| 40 | Oh yeah , that irritates me but , I mean it 's gon na it 's gon na make them think again in n it ? |
| 41 | If we are to take account of the world in which our students now live — the world of mass media , information technology and global communications systems — and help them think critically about it , we must develop new teaching approaches , drawing together the theories , skills and research techniques of all academic disciplines . |
| 42 | Mr Llambias ' services do not come cheap — they are a combination of a retainer ‘ sufficient to make them think really seriously ’ and a success fee that is a percentage of the fee income of the smaller firm ( sometimes 5% or 7.5% ) — but he prides himself on the longevity of the mergers he arranges . |
| 43 | A pony will often find a ‘ fifth leg ’ when a big horse will fall flat on his nose , and although you do n't see any small ponies at the top in eventing , many riders like a bit of pony blood in their eventers ‘ to help them think more quickly ’ . |
| 44 | If your organization is slap-happy it will unnerve candidates and may make them think twice before accepting a job with you . |
| 45 | To make them think twice . |
| 46 | Make them think there are two of us out here ? ’ |
| 47 | The first reasonably reliable and convincing learning task for Drosophila involved training them using just this sense of smell . |
| 48 | This department monitors the financial position of Exchange members and requires them to report daily on their aggregate open positions in each contract . |
| 49 | They 're they 're the eyes and ears of their boss and they have to report any political pressure so we have to find something for them to report basically . |
| 50 | On the other hand it can be argued that the sauropods like Brachiosaurus were so large , and with a relatively small surface area through which to cool compared with their enormous volume , that their cooling rate could have been slow enough to allow them to sustain more continuous activity than smaller , living reptiles . |
| 51 | I will have them treated politely . ’ |
| 52 | But the female pop psyche was split ; its dark underbelly exited in the black R&B and jazz singers of the time , for whom commercial success was rare and sexuality was n't such a taboo ; it was OK for them to wear come-hither clothes , drink hard liquor and sing about bad men . |
| 53 | James Weenes , in a conversation he had with the wife of a London weaver in September 1690 , expressed his opinion that William was " a Dutch Dogg and an Usurper " , who " like a Villain came and took the Crowne from the head of his Father " , and also that " the nobility was a parcel of Rogues and all of them lived as high as Kings . |
| 54 | The four of them lived together and Lee kept her counsel and Hosanna stayed in contact with the spirits and Larry larked around and looked longingly at himself in convenient reflecting surfaces . |
| 55 | Their underside is covered with cilia which by beating enable them to glide slowly over surfaces . |
| 56 | This is not a book on snakes in captivity : Chris prefers to bag his reptiles on film and allow them to glide away . |
| 57 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 58 | As they were collapsing , the gravitational pull of matter outside these regions might start them rotating slightly . |
| 59 | For the next six weeks America , Japan and Germany will between them sell more than 2m barrels a day . |
| 60 | Is it in order for them to continue clearly to deceive the House , when the chairman of Ford of Britain has said that their policies amount to economic suicide ? |