Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] they [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | If they 're sick for seven days or less , you may want them to fill in a form saying so . |
2 | She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else . |
3 | You should have them taken out ; it did not matter here in Hampstead , where we see nobody . ’ |
4 | We should allow them to get on with their business and we should not interfere so regularly in what they do . |
5 | That should get them stirred up . ’ |
6 | Now she wants to sell it , but the buyer must allow them to play on and as yet nobody 's been prepared to . |
7 | While students are on Work Experience , a teacher should visit them to check up that all is well , and they should have the school phone number and a teacher to contact if they have any difficulties . |
8 | New markets should help them to catch up . |
9 | I wish you , you should ask them to read out , read out the O M because then people become more involved in that . |
10 | Let's assume they waited around so that you could overhear them talking . ’ |
11 | Well that 'll make them sit up and think that 's for sure |
12 | Well we 've talked football , we 've talked speedway , we 're now going to talk rugby , because if you 've been following the exploits of the Bicester Rugby Club , you 'll know they got through to the semi-finals of a big national competition , and they play that semi-final this coming Saturday . |
13 | ‘ We 'll wander back , ’ he said as he picked up the blanket and baskets , ‘ expect we 'll meet 'em coming back . ’ |
14 | This might enable them to hold on to around 100 of their present 270 seats . |
15 | But you 'll have 'em buzzing round you like bees at a honeypot if you are n't fairly strict . |
16 | There is perhaps something to be said for the continued use of the term student from the motives that led the Greeks to call the Furies the Eumenides , " the kindly ones ' , in the hope that the use of a flattering name might induce them to live up to it . |
17 | But iff you actually allow B R as an organization to bid , I think it 's making a nonsense of privatization because you 're saying in essence there is n't anything wrong with B R management at the moment and we 'll let them take over the network . |
18 | We 'll let them get on with about half the ceremony — just in case there are any stragglers . ’ |
19 | He looked up at me and grinned , ‘ Hell of a mess ’ , he said , ‘ but we 'll get them sorted out . |
20 | If I go and tell that mod over there that he 's insulted his tie and then I go and tell the rocker that the mod 's been rude about him , we 'll get them burning down the pier . ’ |
21 | That 'd make them sit up and realise they ca n't get away with desecrating any bit of wild country they can get their hands on … ‘ |
22 | So they would actually be in a lesson with tutors we would nominate who you 'd want them to go in with so I 'm not saying do it now you 've all got your programmes I assume , sorted for the first half term anyway an erm , pretty well tied up , should be erm so really it 's down to saying who they 're gon na go in with er |
23 | Despite their bare feet , our young guides strolled nonchalantly across these sections , apparently unconcerned that a single slip could send them plummeting down the mountainside . |
24 | The professor was asked out to preach in mining parishes ; and he discovered that , despite the views of the Bishop of Lincoln and the teenagers of St Benet 's that he was unintelligible in a pulpit , he could feel them hanging on his words . |
25 | She could feel them welling up behind her eyes , and she blinked rapidly , trying to refocus on how much she hated him instead of how much he was hurting her . |
26 | She could feel them pierce through to the back of her head . |
27 | Oh I did n't like them I was , I could see them riding up the leg just like that pair I had on that day and in the end they look so grey and they look like |
28 | A LEADING independent accountant has warned funeral directors against misleading claims encouraging them to take advantage of a tax loophole which could see them reclaiming up to 7,200 per year in VAT . |
29 | The extraordinary thing was , you could see them coming down on to the leaves as you passed and waving their heads around , sniffing , and when you were underneath they would just drop and go straight down your neck , or on to your ears , hundreds of them . |
30 | He could see them coming out under the hand : And close your eyes with holy dread . |