Example sentences of "[verb] is [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One metric by which collocations may be measured and grouped is to rate them on a scale of probability . |
| 2 | If somebody comes and reports to us that erm that the music 's loud , all we 'll do is refer them to Road Police Station . |
| 3 | You can advise them whether they decide your advice that 's fine , but what you must do is get them to s , you must write it on the plan your future document , the advice you gave , what plan you decided to do , and I would actually get him to initial it as well . |
| 4 | All I can do is to tell them of the number and variety involved , and point them to some background reading . |
| 5 | This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year . |
| 6 | As you can see , so far six hundred organizations have registered with us and what we 've done is put them in a rather , rather flash booklet and the idea is that youngsters , their parents , teachers , youth leaders , scout leaders , anybody , gets hold of one of these booklets and in it , it tells them how to go sailing . |
| 7 | Once the arms are fitted , all you need to do is rest them on top of the monitor , and the screen will stay where it has been placed . |
| 8 | Once the arms are fitted , all you need to do is rest them on top of the monitor , and the screen will stay where it has been placed . |
| 9 | ‘ The only thing to do is return them to the Romanians . ’ |
| 10 | Oh , right , we row , we lucky we 've got a row of trees all the way along the back fence like , and in the summer when all the foliage makes quite a nice barrier for the noise and sound and stuff , but what were trying to do is to stop them from , were trying to make them spread out |
| 11 | All I intend to do is rob them of their chief copywriter . ’ |
| 12 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
| 13 | And erm they 've done their teeth and they 've had a wash and they 've done everything really so all you 've got to do is get them in there . |
| 14 | All you need to do is to wipe them with absorbent paper . |
| 15 | So basically all I would have to do is take them with me and I 'd bring them home on the same day . |
| 16 | The only thing I 'm asking you to do is put them in the diary now . |
| 17 | All you 're doing is taking them from the objection , which is , well , we 're not prepared to give a decision , take them from that objection to where you want them do it with me , can you do it ? |
| 18 | All it is doing is assembling them into a package . |
| 19 | Mind , it is from er , what they do is send them through the post , just check 'em , make sure everything 's alright , ai n't it . |
| 20 | The problem I have is putting them into forms and last was a was a specific example because we ended up with our seven G N , and I took the i , the information from each of the primary schools and put them into form classes . |