Example sentences of "[vb infin] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will oblige them to make long drives across the desert to Egypt or Tunisia when they want to leave the country . |
| 2 | That barrier , a common external tariff , was integral to the Treaty of Rome , which wanted to go beyond a free trade area to a customs union , which the Six believed was a far more effective way of developing the potential of their internal market , the logic of which would ultimately oblige them to adopt common policies and harmonise their regulations . |
| 3 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 4 | We 'll make them spin three pounds instead of two |
| 5 | Then next for the Spinner we shall ensue , We 'll make them spin three pound instead of two ; When they bring home their work unto us , they complain , And say that their wages will not them maintain ; But if that an ounce of weight they do lack , Then for to bate threepence we will not be slack . |
| 6 | And er If you get a small little chickens you can make them do two days |
| 7 | Gravity attracts objects towards each other ; antigravity would make them repel each other . |
| 8 | Erm the people who have problems erm I would think , because of of feeling probably the way , they feel about living in the flats or about having to live in that way , does n't make them feel any batter about erm you know any any other particular difficulties that they 're having . |
| 9 | But he was glad he 'd been able to fend off too many probing journalistic questions about her ; he did n't want them publishing any comments about her at this stage , that was sure . |
| 10 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 11 | But where could social workers obtain skills which would qualify them to teach social work ? |
| 12 | The more able pupils often produce stereotypical work which may generate the ‘ right ’ answer but may not stimulate them to ask further questions . |
| 13 | Who were the Magi , what , who where they and I 'll give you an extra mark for each one of their names , I did n't know they had any names . |
| 14 | Oh , I did n't know they did other things ! |
| 15 | ’ I wish someone else would take on the major record companies , but nobody does , and I 'm not prepared to sit back and watch them stifle British music . |
| 16 | If the cheapest supplies are from gas , they will purchase gas ; if it is coal , I would expect them to use coal-fired methods . |
| 17 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
| 18 | I could see that they did n't expect them to have much effect . |
| 19 | Ethics do have a place in the boardroom , and our employees , er employees in I B M , would expect them to have that place . |
| 20 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 21 | You 'd expect them to have opposite signs . |
| 22 | Though typically economists look at the way in which human beings create and distribute goods and services , often with an eye on issues to do with efficiency according to some rational criteria , this does not prevent them using economic theories to examine , for example , educational provision , the supply of blood donors , voting choice , to name but a few . |
| 23 | The attack was based on a number of strands of evidence , including the fact that activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system was too diffuse to underpin the range of subtle emotional experiences of which we are capable , and the observation that severing the spinal cord in dogs does not prevent them displaying facial signs of emotion when provoked in an appropriate way . |
| 24 | Yeah yeah but erm what I 'm saying is you can tax them take that surplus , cream it off , create an equal society direct state intervention invest it in factories , whatever . |
| 25 | In Commission of the European Communities v. Hellenic Republic ( Case 127/87 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 3333 , 3348 , para. 7 the court referred to its established case law : see , inter alia , Hellenic Republic v. Commission of the European Communities ( Case 57/86 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 2855 to the effect that the fact that member states retain certain monetary powers does not entitle them to take unilateral measures prohibited by the E.E.C . |
| 26 | This was a anti-tank and it fired a bomb and of course we put a demonstration on firing this and then we was up the Bell Lane end and right at the top by Bailey 's farm there was a row of seats , benches , along the walk there and of course the demonstration was we 'd show them imagine those seats are tanks course we never thought in the world we should ever even get near one anyway we hit one and broke it Cos they , they , I mean they was only dummies , they were n't , I mean there was no explosive just the dummy shell you know and we , we was quite pleased with ourselves being as we 'd got an audience . |
| 27 | Trade union representatives should ensure they meet young people during their placements and in many cases they will take a pastoral responsibility , dealing with any problems they may face . |
| 28 | Our explanation for this was that unions might feel they had less control over the conditions of indirectly employed temporary workers than over the conditions of those who are directly employed . |
| 29 | ‘ It 'll show they have some friends , ’ Claire says . |
| 30 | ‘ I really do n't like them eating that sort of disgusting junk food , ’ Laura protested . |