Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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1 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
2 | Another result is that firms make ‘ supernormal ’ profits ( profits in excess of those necessary to induce them to remain in the industry ) at consumers ' expense . |
3 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
4 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |
5 | I would nt be at all suprised to see them play in the ‘ theatre of dreams ’ . |
6 | At this Mr Healey was jolly pleased to see me trapped in the Thickets of Quotation , and , again merrily , said , ‘ Plato ? |
7 | Far from being an eyesore , local people get pleasure seeing them blowing in the wind . |
8 | Well do you want me to go in the cellar see what we 've got ? |
9 | But this is his moment , and he does n't want me getting in the way . |
10 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
11 | Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans . |
12 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
13 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
14 | Is not the most practical step that he could take to help renewables to allow those people working on tide , wind , coppicing and other renewables in the Atomic Energy Authority a separate organisation free from the foolish need to produce short-term profits , allowing them to invest in the advantages of renewables , which are essentially long-term ? |
15 | More important , trade would tie their economies into the global market , allowing them to specialise in the things they do best , and helping governments to consolidate their economic reforms . |
16 | For government to pursue a regional policy either by offering incentives to industries to move into depressed areas or by not allowing them to expand in the affluent parts of the country is tantamount to impeding economic growth and wasting resources . |
17 | ‘ The college has been great offering to find a school for the children , and after school I will be encouraging them to join in the dance and fitness classes for children at the college . ’ |
18 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
19 | We have a serious mission to accomplish , we four and I do n't want them getting in the way . ’ |
20 | Er and obviously if we 've got thousands of those coming to each three regional offices we 've got to find some method of distributing them , we do n't want them left in the office do we ? |
21 | I doubt if they would in this well I would n't want them to come in the fog |
22 | That we should cut off the electricity and make everyone live in the dark ? |
23 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
24 | Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger . |
25 | Pavel Penkin is the strike leader , what farmers want he says is a massive injection of state investment to enable them to compete in the new free market and improve their lot . |
26 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
27 | That evening , Frank asked me to walk in the town with him . |
28 | The first efforts to drain them began in the 1880s , but the main push came after a hurricane in 1947 drove floodwaters over Lake Okeechobee 's southern edge , drowning more than 2,000 people . |
29 | He promised ( i ) to drop immediately the 10 per cent tax on imports ; ( ii ) to eliminate Central Bank financing of the National Treasury , except for guaranteed financing provisions , and to streamline fiscal accounts to avoid deficits ; ( iii ) to combat speculation ; ( iv ) to end private and public monopolies ; ( v ) to introduce tax reforms at the beginning of the new year aimed at simplifying the tax system and making it more progressive to " make everyone participate in the national effort " ; and ( vi ) to carry out an administrative reform in the state sector with some state companies to be privatized . |
30 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |