Example sentences of "they [vb base] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armed with their newest inventions ( a super-duper jeep and hi-tech helicopter ) they vow to take on the forces of evil and blast their way to freedom — so get blasting ! |
| 2 | They intend to keep up the pressure , because I understand that the player can be lured to Old Trafford . |
| 3 | Even where migrants do join in , they tend to alter completely the nature of the events . |
| 4 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 5 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ They want to bring down the Chancellor and thereby to undermine the Prime Minister himself , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ They want to bring back the tsar . ’ |
| 8 | A group of squatters evicted from health authority land two years ago say they want to know why the site has remained empty ever since . |
| 9 | Plus they want to know how the branches is gon na operate . |
| 10 | The fingerboard is ebony , with exquisite maple leaf inlays lacking nothing in detail as they appear to drift down the neck towards the body . |
| 11 | They propose to take away the courts ' most important sanction — the power to take over a union 's assets . |
| 12 | Gradually they hope to strip away the disguises and help both partners to understand themselves and each other better and recognize the ways in which they interact . |
| 13 | Suppose , I suppose if erm Pat or erm Annette wanted to find out what really happened they 'd ask Dianne and Dianne would tell them cos they , they get to find out the truth then and she was lo lo lying . |
| 14 | They try to ram down the throat of the public what the public quite rightly does not want . |
| 15 | Camcorder microphones are contrary devices : sometimes they fail to pick up the sounds that they should , and sometimes they hear things that they should n't . |
| 16 | Braggarts talk at the interviewer and are often so concerned and anxious about themselves that they fail to notice how the interviewer is responding . |
| 17 | They help to mark out the field within which the theologian has to work and to discover what his own role and contribution should be . |
| 18 | They help to cut down the number of acne bacteria in the blocked-up grease glands and reduce painful inflammation . |
| 19 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 20 | When they come to write up the results of their research different anthropologists will , for doctrinal reasons , give very different weight to these two major aspects of the data , but , in the field , the anthropologist must always pay attention to both sides . |
| 21 | ‘ But people have such bad financial problems at the moment , they have to give up the chance to study and go for whatever will fill their families ' stomachs . ’ |
| 22 | They have to sort out the problem before the caretaker locks the school gates . |
| 23 | He says it 's a problem because they have to clear up the mess ; he thinks those responsible are a pest . |
| 24 | The loyalists , who are also using grenades , blast incendiary bombs and a new type of under-car booby trap device to target victims , said they plan to step up the campaign against what they describe as ‘ the pan nationalist front ’ . |
| 25 | Instead they need to find out the rhythms of speech which make the music of the verse work in dramatic form . |
| 26 | They need to understand how the equipment works , aha |