Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one day , but nevertheless it 's something that they will always remember and hopefully it will be just a spur for them to go on and do better things . |
| 2 | Agreeing with something someone else has said is a powerful way to encourage them to go on and say more . |
| 3 | Even the more sophisticated tracts , which would have been beyond the comprehension of those on the margins of literacy and were unsuitable for reading aloud , could have had a wider impact than their style might suggest , since their purpose was to furnish people who could read them with arguments which would enable them to go away and convince others of the merits of their party 's cause . |
| 4 | Erm , because if , if interruptions are coming from the people who work for you , you can , you know , nicely tell them to go away and get on with it , but if they 're coming from the boss , and bosses are sensitive soles , so it 's difficult to actually say to the boss , boss you 're wasting a lot of my time , go away . |
| 5 | If you want to motivate them to go out and sell that product , you 've got to make them feel it is important to them . |
| 6 | In many areas it is simply impossible for them to go out and win a big share in an intensely competitive market without the Government 's explicit support and cooperation . |
| 7 | ‘ I have a young side with seven of the lads under 22 and I want them to go out and play good football . |
| 8 | what Alan intends to do is write to all line managers and ask them to go back and review their appraisal erm documents for every member of staff they 've appraised . |
| 9 | If they have then organize a date and time mutually acceptable with them to go in and sign on . |
| 10 | AS THE plutocrats of world golf prepare to fly to Augusta for the first major championship of the season , — in some cases in their personal executive jets — it is a safe bet none of them sit back and reflect on the origins of their good fortune . |
| 11 | At four months they are encouraged to follow their mother on her nightly hunt , though she makes them stay still and hidden during the final stalk to avoid spooking the prey . |
| 12 | When we finally left the school the return journey home was even worse than the journey to school with pupils being cheeky when you told them to sit down and face the front . |
| 13 | The old Frenchman motioned for them to sit down and continue with their meal as he opened a cupboard and took out a bottle and two glasses . |
| 14 | The boatman cursed , telling them to sit down and keep still , and then , puffing and sweating , he pulled his craft out midstream through the flocks of swans who arched their wings in protest as if they owned the river . |
| 15 | Both of them got off and walked . |
| 16 | In Sweden , five ponds were selected , four of them 60–100m apart and connected by a stream , and another 1.9km away . |
| 17 | There is a lot of it hype , there is a lot of it window dressing , but by and large it has helped to provide a railway line , if you like , for them to work on and give special help and special aid to various industries that are relocating there . |
| 18 | He informs Fleming that he had had to put them to work elsewhere and hopes that it will not be thought strange that the men are taken away . |
| 19 | What was next , they knew already from the castle seneschal , was something called Open-Plan Go , Goodness knew how long that would take them to work out and play , assuming Quiss came back from his sulk . |
| 20 | Now , they know who they are , and I would like them to come forward and admit their guilt . " |
| 21 | Within our provision for grants for voluntary organizations , we hold an unallocated figure , because we do n't automatically erm , add inflation to grants to voluntary bodies , and in fact we wait for them to come forward and justify the increases of grants we 're giving . |
| 22 | ‘ We would ask them to come forward and help us solve this terrible killing . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm going to try and get them to come on and talk about this tomorrow . |
| 24 | McHale revealed : ‘ Basically , it 's down to them to come here and impress . |
| 25 | We 'd like them to come along and see the horses working in the traditional way at the same time they can look at the Autumn colours . |
| 26 | Parents ' main interest was seen as the opportunity to influence the quality of their children 's education … the view was expressed that the APM should be seen as the climax to a continuous relationship between various parties and an opportunity for them to come together and ask questions about what had happened over the course of the previous 12 months . |
| 27 | They finished ‘ Christians awake ’ and we begged them to come in and have a glass of wine and a mince pie with us . |
| 28 | I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days |
| 29 | Mrs Patient of Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ I could n't believe that it took four of them to stand there and say they could n't do the work until after the New Year . |
| 30 | The general aim is to pick something that wo n't take long , get them fed quickly and get them out without their inflicting any major damage . |