Example sentences of "they [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promised Madeleine last night I 'd go with them to see Dunbar playing polo . |
| 2 | Take them to see Santa in his Steam Train Grotto . |
| 3 | Francisco drove them to see Rosie next day . |
| 4 | The portable screens are designed to fit round the witness box when needed to block the child 's view of the defendant but allow them to see magistrates and lawyers in the case . |
| 5 | Our parents would n't believe a word we said , so we took them to see Flupper . |
| 6 | ‘ It must be frightening for them to see Ryan on the bench . |
| 7 | And you may find that instead of making antiracism the rational choice for trade union officials and other bureaucrats , you are encouraging them to see immigration as dysfunctional , rather than racism ! |
| 8 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 9 | They also saw the Catholic padre attached to the station and he took them to see Whitey 's grave . |
| 10 | Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers . |
| 11 | The excitement , suspense , and danger which seems the lot of the police on celluloid feeds into the definitions many of Easton 's section police give to their work experience , and the supposed similarity of this experience leads them to see police films and television programmes as an accurate portrayal , to be watched avidly because of this shared world . |
| 12 | Dense blooms of blanket weed or suspended algae may also be removed or controlled to prevent them using oxygen . |
| 13 | If the modules should be included in the package and are to be approved , create a DC to reference them using option 2.1.1 — Create DC . |
| 14 | Make an independent selection from a comprehensive range of reference materials , eg encyclopaedia , adult dictionary or data bank , retrieve information from them using techniques such as skim-reading ; and synthesise information from different parts of a text or different texts . |
| 15 | Make an independent and discriminating selection from a range of reference materials ; retrieve information from them using techniques such as skim-reading ; evaluate and synthesise information from different parts of a text or different texts . |
| 16 | Make an independent and discriminating selection from a range of reference materials ; retrieve information from them using techniques such as skim-reading ; evaluate and synthesise information from different parts of a text or different texts . |
| 17 | Make an independent and discriminating selection from a range of reference materials ; retrieve information from them using techniques such as skim-reading ; evaluate and synthesise information from different parts of a text or different texts . |
| 18 | Among them were women between 70 and 80 years of age , some of them using crutches . |
| 19 | It is hoped that this will make people feel safer and encourage them to report crimes . |
| 20 | Ideas include allowing them to issue shares up to 49% of capital , to turn non-voting certificuts d'investissement into full shares , to sell subsidiaries or create cross-holdings with non-French European companies . |
| 21 | The employees would prefer profits to be lower if maximising them involves plant closures or the introduction of job-destroying technology . |
| 22 | Competition between old males with harems and younger ones without them involves co-operation between males on both sides . |
| 23 | Children from eight to 13 can join in various activities , among them bug hunts , face-painting and natural sculpture . |
| 24 | When he sent out his disciples he instructed them to preach Dhamma , the Truth , the Norm . |
| 25 | The beautiful and promiscuous Muslim women of the Maldives , for example , he thought shockingly immodest , and though Battuta frequently ‘ ordered them to wear clothes … |
| 26 | A couple of hundred years ago two Jesuit missionaries trying to find their way back to the Orinoco stumble across them , get them to build a raft and then pole the two Godmen several hundred miles south while the said Godmen preach them the Gospel and try to get them to wear Levis . |
| 27 | Okay , so what they did was they looked at what would be an attractive reinforcer in their work force erm , if if they were to persuade them to wear ear defenders , and they found out , from doing research in the work force , that consumer durables would be appropriate . |
| 28 | More importantly , it was now divided into five departments on an essentially geographical basis , three of them handling relations with distinct groups of European states and the other two those with Asiatic ones ( China , Persia , the khanates of central Asia and the little Georgian kingdoms in the Caucasus ) . |
| 29 | With them lived Miss Hatherby , Lady Wardley 's sister . |
| 30 | If a development economist can understand why people plant so much maize , or why they plant on 30 June , his work of persuading them to plant cotton , or to plant earlier or later should be more successful , if not simpler . |