Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We goin' take these politician' , leetle dog , an' we goin' put them in one beeg hole so they don' come back . |
| 2 | That gives us the potential of raising two thousand pounds , because we intend to sell them for one ninety nine . |
| 3 | Although we have tried to express these scientific impulses fairly , we hereby give notice that we intend to question them in later chapters . |
| 4 | They 've now taken the ramps out , which is a breach of the planning condition again , so we intend to pursue them on that , and they are offering , believe it or not that disabled people can be taxied from one side of the station to the other side of the station . |
| 5 | any comment about the s the sort of format of the table show do we want to change them at all |
| 6 | People who think like me are simply protesting against the Government 's action in a perfectly legitimate way — we think they 're wrong to attack Egypt and we want to stop them before any further damage is done . |
| 7 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 8 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 9 | Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used . |
| 10 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
| 11 | But unlike Labour , who just want to extend national insurance contributions to all levels of income , we want to consolidate them into income tax . |
| 12 | Alright cos I think we 've been sent these on approval to see if we want to adopt them for course material |
| 13 | Those of us who live and work in Northern Ireland would say that the feeling on the part of the community about bringing these matters to an end is not the result of any war-weary or defeatist feeling but because we want to bring them to an end and restore peace , and it is a very strong feeling . |
| 14 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
| 15 | When we looked at the figures we proved that we would n't get any more business because of where people lived and when we tried to push them to Detroit over Amsterdam they would n't have it , people would prefer to drive to Gatwick . |
| 16 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 17 | And a lot of people of course do n't go into our shops , so we feel that there are a lot of people out there who have a lot of sympathy for Oxfam 's aims and objectives , but are only lacking just the opportunity to give , and that 's what we hope to provide them with . |
| 18 | But unfortunately , in our wish to be protective , we actually create the harm we seek to protect them from . |
| 19 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 20 | There is no need to introduce any technical terms for discourse types , nor should we hesitate to name them to our students for fear of burdening them with jargon . |
| 21 | We like to lend them to friends of ours . ’ |
| 22 | We began sorting them into different area sizes as we were getting confused with those we had and did n't have . |
| 23 | Thank you , Chair , it 's basically been allocated in terms of floor area , and what we 've said to Age Concern , is in so far as we continue to provide them with premises , then we will , if we adjust those charges , we will adjust their grant accordingly . |
| 24 | May we try to show them by our own example that there is something good in everyone . |
| 25 | The French should be reminded what we lost to free them from oppression . |
| 26 | We never did persuade them , but for six valuable hours we managed to hold them on that course far out into the Flores Sea , until finally they came to their senses , noticed the distant and almost invisible shore , and hurriedly tacked towards it again . |
| 27 | Though we continued to lose animals , we managed to replace them with ponies bought from the Arussi . |
| 28 | I actually felt they hustled better than us though we managed to catch them on the break quite a bit , ’ said Blaney . |
| 29 | To make a character worse than oneself it is only necessary to release imaginatively from control some of the bad passions which , in real life , are always straining at the leash ; the Satan , the Iago , the Becky Sharp , within each of us , is always there and only too ready , the moment the leash is slipped , to come out and have in our books that holiday we try to deny them in life . |
| 30 | We 're extremely interested in the women we try to treat them as individuals we cope with a lot of problems and I think if we look as women as individuals , each individual woman has a different problem . |