Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your skin is like creamy blossom and your eyes are so clear and grey they can see into the soul . |
| 2 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 3 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 4 | The tabloid press will publish stories of dole scroungers laying in bed all day , living the life of Riley on the dole , blaming the unemployed and making them feel guilty for a desperate plight . |
| 5 | So I think they 're right to be suspicious , and it 's right for those people who feel they have a role it 's up to them to make it appear interesting and to show them the relevance . |
| 6 | We are an organisation specialising in Stearmans and have wide experience of restoring and operating them at our Norfolk base . |
| 7 | If he 's got a job there , and he 's done it well or he 's done it badly , tell him he 's done it badly , tell them where they 've gone wrong and tell them what they should do to put it right . |
| 8 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 9 | He presented a strong message to the newly-qualified chemists encouraging them to try to win the confidence of the lay public by admitting to things that go wrong and telling them what was being done about it . |
| 10 | I ca n't tell you who to love , or how to love : those school courses would be how-not-not-to as much as how-to classes ( it 's like creative writing — you ca n't teach them how to write or what to write , only usefully point out where they 're going wrong and save them time ) . |
| 11 | Miss Taylor said : ‘ Mr Patten wants to pile children high and teach them cheap but they are not like soap powder . ’ |
| 12 | Stack them high and sell them cheap . |
| 13 | Smith saw the opportunity to do for books what Jack Cohen had done for groceries at Tesco 's — ‘ Pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap . ’ |
| 14 | They staggered on for a year or two after that , but Tesco 's had a big , big change of policy they were no longer high and kick them out cheap , they decided to promote a quality in which stamps did not go for and erm |
| 15 | ‘ What you do is , ’ said Granny Morkie , ‘ you lift your feet up really high and plonk them down . |
| 16 | He killed the and heard that Jesus was born and he would be made king so he sent his men to go out and find every baby that was under two or three years old and kill them . |
| 17 | His body shuddered , and then his tolerance disintegrated and he wrenched his arms free and wrapped them round her , holding her hard against him . |
| 18 | If you have arranged a CheckOver with your branch during the last twelve months and completed and application form similar to that attached , simply contact your branch direct and ask them to review it . |
| 19 | At the specified time , Offline will display the offline workload at an Operator Terminal , and the Offline Operator 's task is to mount the appropriate media items requested by Offline and dismount them when Offline has completed its specified workload . |
| 20 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 21 | Miracles can and do happen , if we are willing to stop struggling and allow them into our lives . |
| 22 | At the customs table the officer did not seem interested and waved them and their suitcases through . |
| 23 | The more you can relate your quotations to your audience and the people you are praising in your speech , the more interested and flattered they will feel . |
| 24 | Decide which options are unrealistic and exclude them , for example : |
| 25 | Yeah and and if and I also what I was going to say how she she kind of is able to control erm or bring out because she 's bring out both his sides but erm to her father wants to sort of get rid of him , she 's able to erm just erm act more charming and get them , you know , one line to prove them wrong . |
| 26 | But one can not help thinking that a far greater contribution to the preservation of the World 's rain forests would be made if companies could be persuaded to make their annual brochures less glossy and to print them on re-cycled paper . |
| 27 | I now have eight keepers who rotate so that each youngster becomes equally fond and knows them equally well . |
| 28 | People perceive the world as though it were guiding and constraining them . |
| 29 | It is here that your values and ideas about preparing children ( i.e. guiding and training them ) for life need to be worked out clearly and communicated to your youngster in the form of reasons . |
| 30 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |