Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We provide rich sensory experiences — wrapping them in soft towels , letting them squelch in mud or helping them identify different tastes or the sound and smells of the countryside . |
| 2 | But he took charge of men ; organized them ; persuaded or inspired or commanded them to endure incredible things . |
| 3 | Oh I can imagine it being a bit strained off and on with er two lots of parents or do they know each other well and everything ? |
| 4 | Do they look viable , or do they occupy run-down property ? |
| 5 | Are their emotions in fact dictated by the current situation , or do they display emotional reactions which are more persistent and more complex than they can articulate in words ? |
| 6 | Do students learn passively , by taking notes in a 50-minute lecture , or do they have more control over their own learning ? |
| 7 | or did they want five pounds for him ? |
| 8 | Early on in an analysis , a patient may not be able to verbalize their real feelings , or to admit they had hostile feelings towards the dead person , and that a part of themselves is pleased with the death . |
| 9 | Shouting at cats or hitting them has little effect . |
| 10 | Comments such as ‘ a history of childhood abuse is both hip and horrible , the rock'n'roll statement with knobs on ’ do not encourage other men to discuss the issue , nor do they treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves . |
| 11 | But these private fictions are rarely of much significance , nor do they affect most people — despite much American talk of ‘ roots ’ . |
| 12 | They do not purport to explain fully why peripheral areas are in the condition in which they find themselves , nor do they regard one dimension ( in this case , the political ) as offering the complete explanation . |
| 13 | They are not places for quiet reflection , they are not clubrooms in which plots and schemes can be laid nor do they have useful collections of books , journals and other aids to professional thinking . |
| 14 | The garbage pickers are not employed by Cartón de Colombia or the warehouses , nor do they have any sort of contract with them . |
| 15 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 16 | Nor do they take proper account of the risks banks run on their foreign-exchange and interest-rate positions . |
| 17 | While the Chewong are fully aware of the physiological differences between the sexes , these are not valued relative to each other , nor do they constitute any base for symbolic ordering ( see Howell 1983 , 1988 for further discussion on Chewong gender ) . |
| 18 | Nor do they include old favourites like industrial subsidies and incomes policies . |
| 19 | This is reinforced by Handy 's view that schools have a multiplicity of purposes and these are not discriminated between or prioritised , nor do they include any reference to the management of adults . |
| 20 | Nor do they share any body of feminist dogma . |
| 21 | They receive no overtime pay , nor do they get any holiday money or sickness benefit . |
| 22 | Nor did they want equal non-protection from the law — they wanted censorship . |
| 23 | Nor did they see any future in piecemeal political reform of the autocracy . |
| 24 | As it was , the Pistols were not together long enough , nor did they sell sufficient records , to make the profits for Virgin which Branson had always anticipated . |
| 25 | Nor did they lack ethical principles — contrary to much biased misunderstanding on the part of Russians with their Christian European prejudices , especially in the field of sexual mores . |
| 26 | Briggs and Nebes ( 1976 ) found no effect of familial handedness but nor did they find any effect of handedness per se . |
| 27 | Nor did they have any preconceptions about his personality or politics . |
| 28 | In general , women have not benefited much in the job market from capitalist industrialisation nor have they gained much influence in society outside the family through political channels . |
| 29 | Mr Nash added that the whole basis of ASB chairman David Tweedie 's approach was to stop people looking at special figures and make them examine various factors . |
| 30 | This belief has lasted to the present day ; and , in revenge , we should round up all the people who made these awful hippy records and make them read old Charlatans interviews until they beg for mercy and we hurl them into a well filled with angry weasels . |