Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More commonly , he will have been given power to make laws , subject only to the controlling authority of one or both Houses of Parliament to unmake them , or to withhold the endorsement necessary for them to continue to enjoy the force of law . |
| 2 | Good advertising communicates the right message to the right people at the right time in a way that will interest or amuse them , but above all make them want to buy the product , service , or even " idea " . |
| 3 | But although they both tried to smile still , neither of them failed to notice the past tense she had used for the word ‘ love ’ . |
| 4 | The three of them moved thought the ship at a speed that I can hardly describe . |
| 5 | He presented a strong message to the newly-qualified chemists encouraging them to try to win the confidence of the lay public by admitting to things that go wrong and telling them what was being done about it . |
| 6 | But because they are so efficient at tempting big barbel to bite in the first place I keep trying different ways of fishing with them to try to overcome the problem . |
| 7 | In the summer of 1557 , some of them tried to break the stalemate . |
| 8 | One of them tried to jump the ditch and landed on Canny , breaking his neck ( Lincoln Journal , Nebraska 28 December 1987 ) . |
| 9 | And Howerd 's way … the comedian who kept them laughing 'til the end . |
| 10 | ‘ Leave them alone until someone who understands them has examined the site . |
| 11 | The promotion has led to some shops selling out of £120 vacuum cleaners , and the Cambuslang , Strathclyde , factory that makes them has defied the recession by switching to seven-day working . |
| 12 | But even in the case of such an Act , if there are superadded provisions which attach to non-payment consequences other than a bare liability to be sued , there can be no justification for refusing to have regard to those consequences and to consider whether the existence of the provisions creating them has placed the payer under such pressure that the payments have not in truth been voluntary . |
| 13 | This growth of alternative markets for short-term money and the instruments that go with them has made the supply and demand for short-term money extremely competitive . |
| 14 | Sixty two Firefly engines were made in the mid-nineteenth century and not one of them has survived the scrapheap . |
| 15 | The fact that a majority did vote for them has shifted the balance of power back towards the reformers . |
| 16 | Very few of them believe there is any magic ( if ever there was ) in the business and almost all of them want to understand the process and expect executive search consultants to provide that knowledge . |
| 17 | None of them seemed to include the tube in their itineraries , but there was some useful advice on how to secure the best berths on a Nile river cruiser and an interesting complaint about the lack of leg room on Concorde which assured him that the R and the F of this world had to contend with life 's little niggles just like everybody else . |
| 18 | Up to 80 of them hope to make the drop . |
| 19 | The Bank may use them to help control the level of bank lending . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher , in Commons exchanges with Mr Neil Kinnock , rejected criticism in Hong Kong and Britain and took a swipe at foreign critics by urging them to help accommodate the boat people . |
| 21 | It does appear that many large pension funds do carry out such a policy , with many of them attempting to replicate the FTSE 100 Index with their core portfolios so that the returns will match the market . |
| 22 | We wear them to avoid contaminating the environment with our own clothing . ’ |
| 23 | He cautioned them to avoid crossing the Waste but to cling instead to the edge of the forest . |
| 24 | All of them continue to enhance the role of the church musician by their devotion and perseverance . |
| 25 | He even uses words which come from the Old Testament Book of Daniel and they recognised that and here they 've got this pathetic looking individual in front of them threatening to destroy the temple , threatening to this , that and the other and here you 've got this power Sanhedrin who ca n't recognise him really as the Messiah and yet there 's a ring of truth about some of things that he 's talking about . |
| 26 | This not only gave the masters an extra hour 's work but saved them having to pay the breakfast allowance of 1½d ( 0.6p ) . |
| 27 | But er unfortunately those on the ground who have shown their skill at wrecking anything that does n't suit their purpose with the support of the Labour group , those on the ground will still be there and I do n't believe that er giving the director of education the executive powers is going to stop them continuing to take the sort of action they 've been taking . |
| 28 | ‘ I think hairdressers have got a bad reputation as so many of them try to dominate the client . |
| 29 | There is little theory-loading in any of these plates , and none of them attempt to catch the bird in motion as the ‘ field guides ’ of the twentieth century do . |
| 30 | She claimed that one of them went to headbutt the man . |