Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] they [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 While I was in a single room , what I used to do was get hold of sani towels and put my dog ends in and let them smoulder and wave them out the hatch .
2 Sometimes I lay down and let them dance on my hand , and from time to time children came to play games in my hair .
3 You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long .
4 They would salt them down and let them lie in the brine for a while and they would take them out and dry them .
5 Let's go down and see them move off "
6 Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ .
7 And you can then also couple between keyboards so that if you want to you can play the sounds from this keyboard on the lower one by coupling the two together and making them work as a pair , but that removes the inde independency of being able to set one against the other .
8 I bite them together and feel them squash .
9 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 .
10 And the band cooks and splutters , pistons and relaxes , chews things over and lets them ride .
11 we 've got to act fairly quickly so can we decide in principle whether we 're going to do this or not and let them know that we either are or we are n't .
12 His superiority over them can not but make them seem to us inferior , innocent , or naïve , dupes who trust too easily and are soon outwitted .
13 Their progress was fast , the ground had hardened after the rains while Sir James had unfurled the royal standard of Scotland to make it obvious to any others using the road to stand aside quickly and let them pass .
14 ‘ It 's the hymns that are the great stumbling block , ’ Everard went on , ‘ but really the only thing is to abandon oneself to the words uncritically and let them flow over one . ’
15 It seemed unbelievable that they would stand aside and let them leave like this .
16 If you got home and let them go , slosh water into them , you 'd soon have some dead 'uns . ’
17 Well , Right love we 'll inform you know we just phone up and let them know what 's happened .
18 them up and let them know .
19 I think we 'd have to ring them up and let them know what we 're doing .
20 Now shut up and let them get on with their game . ’
21 All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ .
22 It seems that the children have been too easily persuaded to sell their land and houses , for what matters in a drama like this is not that the children should act out what actually happened in real life , but that it should open up and help them understand the dilemmas of industrialisation .
23 He would write a book which would cause a sufficient furore to upset both his parents thoroughly and make them realize that he was a person to be reckoned with .
24 Look at them , acknowledge them and then tell yourself you will deal with them later and let them go .
25 She took some out and let them drift away , still stretching the soft lips of her mouth with delight .
26 Take them out and let them cool and then we can ice them , yeah ?
27 If we fuck up , then we go back , hold our hands out and let them smack us .
28 Likes to set things out and make them go you know
29 You want to scream out and make them stop it , and you want to cringe up your body and hide it somewhere , and there 's nowhere to hide , and the shells keep screaming down and blowing everything up all around you .
30 It stops them from dropping out and makes them look longer and thicker — I think it really works .
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