Example sentences of "and [vb base] them [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Allow 1.2m ( 4ft ) between the plants and expect them to reach full size in four years . |
| 4 | ‘ They seem pathetic , when you compare them to adult humans , and expect them to do human things — because obviously they ca n't . |
| 5 | We should approach the white public school middle class networks in the business world and let them deliver some money . |
| 6 | Beat all these together with a whisk , till all appeareth converted into froth , and let them stand all night . |
| 7 | I says , they have a hotel there , so I brought them up to the hotel and took them , he went in and he made arrangements to stay there and then I took them over and let them see this lake dwell this crannagh as they call it . |
| 8 | But we managed to track down your kindly vendor 's accountant , and persuade them to bring those accounts up to date . ’ |
| 9 | There are obvious reasons why not , but its absence contributes to a continuation of failed projects because authors make heroic assumptions and quantify them to produce fanciful targets . |
| 10 | Sometimes an Orc or Goblin will capture a few Snotlings and train them to perform entertaining tricks , or to perform simple tasks . |
| 11 | And , and , you know , they 've got paid youth officer 's working in Harlow , now they are , there are , they 're over they 're over stretched it 's true and , but we , I mean what were doing here is actually supplementing there service and were not meeting all , we would n't of erm meeting all the demands , but the important thing I think is that were continuing to erm , you know , were trying to do something about it , and one of the things that were trying to do as officer 's in the Local Government Unit is work with Leisure Services and get them to put more resources into doing things for young people . |
| 12 | It is this extra software which will enhance the intelligence of the telephone networks and allow them to provide special services rather than simple telephony . |
| 13 | This could relieve heads and teachers of clerical work for which they are not trained and allow them to make better use of their valuable ( and scarce ) teaching skills . |
| 14 | Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow . |
| 15 | Conference , I believe that this existing rule nineteen , gives the G M B an opportunity to expand into branch administration officers across all the regions and use them to do any job that is needed and expected by the members . |
| 16 | In social life we build personal ‘ constructs ’ ( Kelly 1955 ) and use them to create consistent patterns of relating with others . |
| 17 | Advocates of this kind of approach take everyday experiences ( like cooking ) and use them to clarify those words which we use to explain mathematics and to vivify the abstractions which are central to the subject . |
| 18 | Call in and see what terms we 're offering on our different accounts — and use them to gain excellent returns on anything you can manage to save . |
| 19 | Far better to catch the parent in the playground or corridor and ask them to spare five minutes when it 's convenient just to pop in to have a quiet little chat . |
| 20 | Discuss the importance of the UP to urban and inner cities community development initiatives with your MP and any other MP or Peer that you may have contact with and ask them to raise these issues with government . |
| 21 | Much more popular with the prisoners are the range of Vocational Training Courses ( VTC ) which take men for a period of 20 or 26 weeks , give them a thorough training in a particular skill and enable them to take outside examinations . |
| 22 | Then blindfold them and invite them to take four steps backwards followed by four forward before trying to blow out the candle . |
| 23 | Mr Gummer should pick up Mr MacSharry 's ideas and remould them to meet sensible criteria . |
| 24 | Occasionally he would descend to the students ' common room immediately beneath and beg them to make less noise so that he could write . |
| 25 | For the government to raise large sums of money and redistribute them to purchase social services must have profound effects on the economy . |
| 26 | Clearly , an LEA has an obligation in the words of a recent Audit Commission report ( Audit Commission 1989a ) to ‘ articulate a vision of what the education service is trying to achieve ’ and to ‘ support schools and help them to fulfil this vision ’ , but it could be argued that the most appropriate focus for such a vision , necessarily generalized because of the range of institutional contexts and pupil needs involved , should be on identifying broad goals and the kinds of learning which schools might seek to promote . |
| 27 | Britain should stop giving ‘ piffling ’ sums of aid to Latin American countries and help them find alternative crops . |
| 28 | ‘ You do n't play 600odd games for Liverpool and help them win European trophies , League championships and FA Cups if you ca n't play a bit . |
| 29 | It is up to our families , our school and our parishes to ensure that the right values are conveyed to our young people , and help them to develop positive attitudes . |