Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they have moved forwards as far as they feel they want to go they then leave one of the bottles , place both their hands on the other and have to get back without touching the the floor with any part of their body . |
| 2 | He did not want to see them simply crushed , not only because he respected their opinion , but because he would have to go on working with them after the Council . |
| 3 | I do n't want to see them tonight |
| 4 | You may not dislike the person ( or alternatively , you may ) but you do n't want to see them then , at all . |
| 5 | I suppose it 's probably because his time at Leeds coincided with the time when I used to go to see them most frequently . |
| 6 | The RCM held that , if the parents of refugee children had discouraged them from religious practices , their temporary guardians should not presume to treat them differently . |
| 7 | Fleeces are so versatile and functional these days that we tend to wear them everywhere . |
| 8 | She did not want to catch them unawares again . |
| 9 | In the view of the government , discussing such matters in print made resolving them harder . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't want to meet them again in a hurry . |
| 11 | Absentees and truants welcomed quietly back to school and efforts made to re-integrate them socially and academically . |
| 12 | We saw so many of these bomber boys pass before us — we got to know them slightly and then they were gone . |
| 13 | ‘ Those people just had something special and we got to know them well , ’ Andrew said . |
| 14 | He got to know them well : years later when they appeared suddenly he could remember who they were . |
| 15 | I played everywhere , and because we , in the Music School , were taught by tutors in men 's colleges I got to know them well , and went in and out in defiance of the chaperone rules — which were then still in force … |
| 16 | Mrs Ford said primly , ‘ I never got to know them well in their child-bearing years . ’ |
| 17 | And er but er we got to know them eventually , but for the first few weeks , whilst we were in Devon , I think the five foreigners sort of got landed . |
| 18 | When I was a child we had two bay-coloured horses , and I later got to know them very well . |
| 19 | this turned out to be the standard stuff of innumerable intelligence reports , as Carrington got to know them better . |
| 20 | We so enjoyed having friends to stay and got to know them so much better than in London . |
| 21 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 22 | This time , she said under her breath , I want to see them fucking perfect . |
| 23 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 24 | Oh fine you want to thank them now . |
| 25 | A rather similar pattern can be seen in the very different circumstances of the inter-war economic depression , when the Household Means Test meant effectively that young working adults living in the same household as their unemployed parents were expected to support them financially . |
| 26 | Later in the evening their horrified executioners had reported encountering them again , in serious disrepair , shambling in single file back through the forest towards their Rante . |
| 27 | In all cases , if the creatures actually get out of their cell they die instantly , since only the magic within each cell has sustained them so long . |
| 28 | The board of the vendor company also has a duty to deal fairly between all shareholders of the same class , although it does not need to treat them exactly the same if there are particular reasons for different treatment , as in the case of regulatory or exchange control requirements applying to overseas shareholders . |
| 29 | The synthesised female voice that responds to your commands and verifies that it has heard them correctly is amiable enough , though clearly not to be trifled with . |
| 30 | If you are applying for compensation for damage , please keep the damaged article , and the packaging , as we may need to see them later . |