Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We succeed in operating them profitably , but the big national breweries regard such pubs as non-viable and tend to close them or sell them off , with inevitable consequences in the form of unemployment . |
| 2 | Thus drugs can be said to act on people and relax them ( 26 ) or bring them around ( 27 ) ; information can put some people in a favourable position with respect to others ( 28 ) ; and pointers can be seen as guiding people ( i.e. as somehow active or operative ) in the proper discharge of their duties . |
| 3 | It was known , also , that the old lady had been friendly with his mother ; and anyway , being a bachelor and retired , he could usually be counted on to take sufferers to hospital in emergency , or bring them home ; as well as visiting murderers in prison , and other tasks ( often called do-gooding by people who have never been remotely in need of that particular little world ) . |
| 4 | Do not only go and see them , but take them out or bring them home . |
| 5 | By 1755 serious friction had developed between England and France over their respective Far Eastern and North American colonies , and it was rapidly learned in London that the French had , though reluctantly , decided that only a major invasion of England itself could force the English to keep ships at home or bring them back from overseas . |
| 6 | For example , they transport schoolchildren to events in unmarked buses , or pick them up from locations outside West Belfast . |
| 7 | And so you get these , these somewhat stupefied er or one over the eight wasps rolling around , er and er you know , not , not being terribly active , but that , that is the time at which of course people do tend to tread on them or pick them up and get stung . |
| 8 | And the society investigates them , and if they are deserving , either refers them to some appropriate charity or grants them relief or refers them back to us with a note of recommendation . ’ |
| 9 | Would it slow them down or make them more vicious ? |
| 10 | Having obtained your two pieces of wood , place them one on top of the other , ensuring that they are exactly square , and tape or clamp them securely together . |
| 11 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 12 | When you cut the lupins down try not to shake or knock them too much , because this will spread the mildew spores . |
| 13 | And both offices have identified the need to pay volunteers something for their work , or lose them altogether . |
| 14 | England 's second place is slightly surprising , as they seem either to win all their matches ( as in two series against Richards 's men ) or lose them all ( as in 4–0 against Australia last winter ) . |
| 15 | Or fax them on |
| 16 | Their aim is to meet potential master licensees and joint venture partners and two franchises on offer are Fantastic Sam 's International Inc , and Magicuts Inc , For more details call Mrs Mickey Boxer or Stephen Lynch on or fax them on |
| 17 | If you break a piece , replace it ; do not try to use the broken pieces or glue them together , the magnetic circuit properties will be affected . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I really ought to give them to her personally , or send them back to the bank . |
| 19 | In future , students will be able to take individual Higher National Units or build them up to gain group HNC or HND awards . |
| 20 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 21 | When pressing flowers with fairly hard centres , such as Christmas roses , it is easier to remove the middles completely and either discard or press them separately and replace them later . |
| 22 | In the sixteenth century the right to import commodities , or to process them domestically , normally rested on a grant of a monopoly . |
| 23 | One 's called the Austin Special , and it 's really cool-looking with three hotted-up Danelectro-style lipstick tube pickups that you can either run as single-coils for that crinkly kind of clarity , or put them together for a humbucking sound . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ you can peel them and boil them or cut them up and fry them or … ’ |
| 25 | If you want to share them , put a new condom on them for each user or wash them thoroughly in hot water ( as long as the toy is not electrical ! ) . |
| 26 | It was thought that only animals of that description could either eject rabbits from their burrows or kill them underground . |
| 27 | Whatever it was that lured or drove them there , these creatures , over the millennia , lumbering after their food , became more and more efficient at moving and breathing out of water . |
| 28 | On many occasions a small group of children will be playing with cars , either running them down an incline ( a plank resting on a block ) or pushing them up . |
| 29 | Those preferring to have them collected , or to take or send them individually , were mostly older people , and people in lower socio-economic groups , and people who — when they were talking about being so short of money that they would have to arrange a loan — thought in terms of a relatively small amount of money . |
| 30 | members of staff who may be required to brief candidates or show them around ; |