Example sentences of "[vb infin] they [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to produce as many young as possible , it is best to hatch and rear them away from the parents . |
| 2 | He was taking a group of his own men plus dogs and their handlers out to the helicopter base where he could brief them together with the pilots . |
| 3 | Do n't just give them away to the adventurers if they do n't bother even to search this room ; they must make an effort to find these bizarre items and take an interest in finding out what they do . |
| 4 | Reinforcing this quest for the extraordinary , which by definition should bring them quickly to the margins of deviance , is the fact … that one of the frequent rewards of achievement is an immunity to many of the sanctions that constrain and punish the less successful . |
| 5 | Perhaps we should educate them more in the ways of the world ? |
| 6 | Sir Walter Scott called barefoot and ragged wild mountain Scots lads ‘ gillie wetfoots ’ , saying he could not tell them apart from the fairies who ‘ beat the bushes ’ . |