Example sentences of "they [verb] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we could send some of the people over there , to help them to retrain things and reorganise things . |
| 2 | Erm , the trouble is , if you do n't know the vocabulary it 's very hard to dictate and write down because you have to keep stopping and asking them to spell things . |
| 3 | The commissioner with responsibility for regional development , Bruce Millan , met Peter Lilley , the trade and industry secretary , Ian Lang , the secretary of state for Scotland , and David Hunt , the secretary of state for Wales on April 25th , partly in order to try to persuade them to sort things out . |
| 4 | I left them to sort things like that out . |
| 5 | There 's nothing like a little twisting and twiddling to encourage them to remember things . |
| 6 | I came from a pretty poorish background and now it 's nice to be able to give my parents money , and let them do things like go on holiday . |
| 7 | But , whatever name you choose to give it , something gets into humans one way or another and makes them do things that are very hard to understand . |
| 8 | That is why that man said you will not get any more special offers on a Fri Saturday night because they ca n't sell it on a Sunday so you used to see them selling things off on a Saturday five o'clock . |
| 9 | Well I do n't mind doing one card , but I hate it when I 've got about seven or eight of them chuffing things ! |
| 10 | They respected him , too , of course , as one of the greatest players since the war , and knew that , as a top-flight batsman and a bowler who could be both slow and fast-medium , he would not be asking them to do things he had not already achieved himself . |
| 11 | From an early age I expected them to do things for themselves , and sometimes for me , and when they snivelled about their friends having kind and conscientious mothers who changed their sheets and made fruit pies , I said ‘ Some day , when you 're at Sunderland Polytechnic and living by your wits , you 'll thank me . ’ |
| 12 | The idea is that they feed the other side with what appears to be genuine material so as to establish their credibility and then the other side asks them to do things for them on their own home ground . |
| 13 | The job of care staff is not to do things for clients , but to enable them to do things for themselves . |
| 14 | I think , well , I think do everything as early as you possibly can , as long as the kid understands what they 're doing , it 's no good getting them to do things they do n't understand , if they understand negative numbers do it |
| 15 | My last question is is really again about making children do things , as opposed to encouraging or helping them to do things . |
| 16 | My last question is is really again about making children do things , as opposed to encouraging or helping them to do things . |
| 17 | ‘ So I would get hold of a lot of avid church users and have them saying things like , ‘ It 's great to be involved ’ , ‘ The whole family enjoy it ’ and ‘ An hour well-spent once a week ’ . |
| 18 | The doors of the classrooms along it had handwritten cards drawing-pinned to them saying things like ‘ Course 21B : Italian ’ or ‘ Over 60s Metalworking ’ and one that said ‘ Blue Tit Patrol ’ pinned high enough up to avoid any graffiti . |
| 19 | Total immersion is impossible or extremely rare and few anthropologists go completely native : most guardedly keep their distance yet observe and participate sufficiently to allow them to study things in their context . |
| 20 | Christine de Pisan and Alain Chartier are two such who also attract the attention of historians for a different reason , namely that they were observers and critics of the world of early fifteenth-century France , both of them having things to say which , they hoped , would turn it into a better world . |
| 21 | Erm the cluster makes you realise how you presented things to people what you can improve them having things in your hand that it it just makes you erm more nervous because you 're fumbling about what makes me more nervous you 're fumbling about with something trying to do something that you do n't really need to do . |
| 22 | I hate to admit it in fact but er , no the way they got things organized , got lecture tours , rallies and what have you together , you know I think er taught us an incredible amount . |
| 23 | But on the whole once I 've got talking it 's been very successful , and people are always amazed at what they do remember in great detail about how they got things , why they got them , when they got them , and I think by and large the people that I have talked to have found it very interesting to do for themselves as well as for me . |
| 24 | Children may sort with or without adult help when they bring things or when they pack them away . |
| 25 | Only that now that 's what they sell things there th they 've started there . |
| 26 | they sell things like that shop they closed down . |
| 27 | Sometimes they sell things for you do n't they ? |
| 28 | Feelings so strong they made things happen — made the Worm grow . ’ |
| 29 | People were too scared to vote Labour in case they made things even worse . |
| 30 | ‘ Ah , well , they made things better of course in the Thirties and these I found from a plaster house that closed down , they were used for Chanel 's stand at the Universelle Expo in 1937 , jolie , no ? ’ |