Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] they in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pledge to continue to support them in that . |
| 2 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 3 | Mummy me want to eat them in that high chair , you staying out here ? |
| 4 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 5 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 6 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 7 | I think , er you know , they 're just a , you know , if , if they were erm elm trees or something like that , or you know blackthorn trees here and you 'd taken them in this country , you 'd say , oh there 's a couple of blackthorn trees ! |
| 8 | Once the Chairman has signed the minutes no one is empowered to alter them in any way . |
| 9 | Now I do n't want to embarrass them in any way . |
| 10 | Mr. Kemp is entitled to his opinions but why he chooses to express them in such flippant and dismissive manner is puzzling . |
| 11 | And you 've got to put them in that framework … |
| 12 | It now seems more fruitful to many political scientists and sociologists to concentrate their analysis upon the political structure and processes of change within fairly well defined types of political system — tribal societies , city-states , bureaucratic empires and other imperial regimes , absolutist states , socialist or capitalist industrial states , and so on — without attempting to locate them in some all-embracing historical scheme . |
| 13 | So he began to involve them in some of the decisionmaking about how their environment might be improved , their needs met . |
| 14 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 15 | Do not attempt to organise them in any type of pattern other than under the major heading of asset or liability . |
| 16 | But whalers could have enlightened them in this respect , for they knew that whales possessed acute hearing , the constant ‘ twittering ’ of the White whale even earning it the name of the sea canary . |
| 17 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 18 | But schools often under-use the talents and energies of their teachers , or fail to develop them in any consistent and systematic way . |
| 19 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 20 | And whoever took this four marb eight marbles had chucked them in this hole and if a even number come out it was mine , if a odd number came out then he 'd take the eight . |
| 21 | A choreographer should translate this definition into dance terms thus : taking the moods , emotions and actions expressed , understood and observed by everyone in general and using natural gestures when applying the rules of choreographic grammar without trying to express them in any other way . |
| 22 | is n't that nice , they 've got them in all colours ! |
| 23 | Most places where erm , you know they 've got them in that , where you go |
| 24 | They 've had them in this one . |
| 25 | Does presenting them in this way , grouped in the separate chapters , aid discourse type identification ? |
| 26 | The delicious and time-consuming dishes and sauces they used to make may no longer be possible for them , for many reasons , so there should be no hesitation in trying to interest them in some of the tinned and packet products which may be just as good for them if fresh milk has to be added . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's so humid , ’ they moaned , and they wondered why it was that the storm had left them in this stifling , steamy condition when storms were supposed to clear the air . |
| 28 | So , getting down to specifics , the two species mentioned both make excellent aquarium subjects , the only cause for concern being whether they have been maintained in brackish water or already acclimatised to freshwater if you wish to maintain them in this environment . |
| 29 | Erm and it was rather a a and heavy work , you had to have a team of horses to pull a load of suedes and you had to get them in Some you used to carry out on and just drag them I mean s spread them out on the field er for the store cattle and the sheep . |
| 30 | Narratorial frustration is evident in the disjointed structure of the novel which focuses briefly on a number of subcultures of professional London without bothering to link them in more than a cursory manner . |