Example sentences of "they [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recession , a crisis in American retailing and the tarnishing of many once-snobby luxury brands are making them think again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Oh yeah , that irritates me but , I mean it 's gon na it 's gon na make them think again in n it ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The primary role for researchers should be to work alongside practitioners and help them understand not only what clients are saying but help them think through the nature and impact of their interventions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | If your organization is slap-happy it will unnerve candidates and may make them think twice before accepting a job with you . |
| 9 | To make them think twice . |
| 10 | Make them think there are two of us out here ? ’ |
| 11 | Yes I know , you can get somebody else to do that , be there for months and they do n't turn up at once , that was erm , I did n't realize they had to turn up at once , so I was letting them throw whenever they wanted |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't let them rattle on ; when you have had enough , smile sweetly , say ‘ many thanks ’ and we 'll switch off the lights . ’ |
| 13 | Let them rattle away , so long as no one opened the door . |
| 14 | We push his legs but they buckle at the knees , so we have to hold them up above our heads as we push to make them stay straight , then as we shove and his trousers are rolled down by the rim of stone , his arms flop over the far side of the shaft rim and it suddenly gets easier to push him . |
| 15 | YOUNG Belfast offenders appealed today for a £140,000 Government injection to help them stay straight . |
| 16 | ‘ You let them stay here ? ’ |
| 17 | One reason is that women , particularly in the Third World , are often not aware of the real dangers of contraception because health staff and pharmaceutical companies keep them in ignorance for fear of making them stay away from the clinic . |
| 18 | They would let them stay on until they married and got farms of their own , because , perhaps , their own home circumstances would not be very good . |
| 19 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
| 20 | A decision will then be taken on letting them stay longer . |
| 21 | the festivals car park , you know the whole thing and I mean then he kicked them off did n't he , so they moved up to Cross Street so in a way it 's their own fault , they could of let them stay there , I mean every body wants to be settled somewhere like |
| 22 | they , they make them stay together . |
| 23 | At four months they are encouraged to follow their mother on her nightly hunt , though she makes them stay still and hidden during the final stalk to avoid spooking the prey . |
| 24 | And if they come out with that line : ‘ Oh but mum , everyone else 's mum lets them stay out until three in the morning/hitch a lift home from Glastonbury/take the short cut across the meadow at night/ride a bike without wearing an orange band … ’ then find out what other parents really think . |
| 25 | I can make them disappear too . ’ |
| 26 | It also helps them build up market research techniques — required in the technology section of the National Curriculum — as well as developing planning , advertising , promotion and interviewing skills . |
| 27 | Your midwife and doctor , though , see many pregnant women , so they need to use all their skills to help them build up a picture of your individual , unique pregnancy . |
| 28 | And also why you 've got to talk to people , you know get your problems out in the open rather than let them build up and all of a sudden just say right , that 's it , out the gates , or down tools . |
| 29 | She had thought he was asleep , realising that he was n't only when she felt him tense under the light touch of her fingers , but as he neither moved away nor said a word , she let them remain there , resting lightly against him , the contact lax and undemanding . |
| 30 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |