Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just we got no time , as you sit down to work they pin something on you . |
| 2 | Only when these fish are place together do they cause trouble ( to say the least ) . |
| 3 | There are endless obstacles to romance , in the shape of their teenage children , ex-lovers and Charlie 's ex-wife , all of whom pitch in to make them doubt their true feelings . |
| 4 | A Ukranian choir has been stranded in Britain after a visa mix up meant they missed out on a concert tour . |
| 5 | It seems to have been Charles ' policy to broaden the education and leadership of his sons , and at the same time not to allow them to become too entrenched in their own subkingdoms . |
| 6 | Total immersion is impossible or extremely rare and few anthropologists go completely native : most guardedly keep their distance yet observe and participate sufficiently to allow them to study things in their context . |
| 7 | ‘ I will go up to the roof , just remember though to tell them to send a ladder up there ’ said Ralph ‘ Take the child with you and hurry ’ And with that Carter ran as fast as he could through the dark air with the lady and child and before long he was out Ralph 's sight . |
| 8 | Once on the Council , I set out to persuade them to apply for a compulsory purchase order on the site , which could have been done before , of course , if anyone had been single-minded enough about it . |
| 9 | I listen to their stories , and I know when to let them sleep in the shade . ’ |
| 10 | This task is , in my view , something for all of us , and can not be left to doctors or parents to determine , unless we decide formally to authorize them to do so by law . |
| 11 | Americans fly in , have a shilling camel ride and go home saying they 've done the Sahara . ’ |
| 12 | As children become more experienced they establish their own interdependent relationships , but initially it requires careful questioning by the teacher : " You 're a woodworker . |
| 13 | When women go out to work they do ‘ women 's work ’ which continues to be paid less than men 's work , despite the legislation , and most women are still subservient to men in their work . |
| 14 | Probably turn round say they had a five hundred million pound turnover last year right . |
| 15 | I mean how do they go about reclassifying |
| 16 | I mean how do they categorize that ? |
| 17 | I mean how did they lend him two hundred million without absolutely secure collateral ? |
| 18 | ‘ You mean how did they know that today was a big one ? ’ |
| 19 | If we carry on to let 'em do as they like , what 'll happen is this section of the workforce will go in such a decline , they 'll be very profitable which as we 've already heard as Asda are trying it on now . |
| 20 | As an eating-disorders expert explained : ‘ Bulimics do not admit they have a problem . |
| 21 | The reality is that while the professional/client model is attractive , people who come into contact with mental health services often do not feel they exert the kind of influence that , for example , a person might have when he is instructing his solicitor . |
| 22 | Moreover , city Indians do not feel they need lots of children to look after them when they are old . |
| 23 | He said the NHS should address itself more to the needs of cancer patients so that they do not feel they have to go outside the system . |
| 24 | I do not think they have seen me . |
| 25 | Even so , I do not think they have mended the battery correctly as it said it was about to close down and stop when the battery meter said the battery was five-eights full … |
| 26 | Could we qualify that that we do not want them to go down School Lane ? |
| 27 | There are others who need to work out how dangerous it would be to do something that America and Europe do not want them to do . |
| 28 | We do not want them to inherit all our problems when it is their responsibility to create the wealth and care for the increased number of elderly and aged people in this country . |
| 29 | We do not want them to know we are coming . ’ |
| 30 | I do not want them buried under mounds of paper . ’ |