Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
2 | I want them to go on because they can see it 's the only thing to do . |
3 | For the next six weeks America , Japan and Germany will between them sell more than 2m barrels a day . |
4 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
5 | They would let them stay on until they married and got farms of their own , because , perhaps , their own home circumstances would not be very good . |
6 | Furthermore , as a result of high levels of unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s ( and possibly also as a result of the capacity of the more affluent to accumulate enough resources to enable them to retire early if they wish ) , the percentage of those in their late fifties and early sixties who regard themselves as permanently retired has increased ( Walker 1980 ; GHS 1986 : 73 ; Johnson 1989 ) . |
7 | But Pau survived , and in the late 1860s was at its most popular with British and , by this time , some American winterers , with up to I , 500 of them registered yearly as staying or living there . |
8 | With that the three of them made off as best they could . |
9 | Research is in progress to modify crop plants genetically to make them yield more than one product . |
10 | Always rang if she was going to be late , always let them know exactly where she was . |
11 | It can damage muscles by forcing them to work harder than they are capable of at the time . |
12 | You shoot down the gas-bag , dummy , to make them jump out so you can machine gun them while they go down ! |
13 | I heard them laughing still as the car pulled off down the lane . |
14 | Indeed , this latter aspect of femininity is emphasized by some recent writers on masculinity who protest that men do not have such a wonderful deal in the world , since the social pressures on them to contain rather than express their emotions are oppressive and restrictive , stunting their full emotional development . |
15 | A number of them mentioned more than one information source . |
16 | But in some parishes it er had been useful for them to stand out because the parish council was made up of people who had grown old with parish priests and er it was a chance to make a new start . |
17 | Let them dry overnight before you switch on the heat again . |
18 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |
19 | Consequently more students in this are group are having to pay fares — a very cogent reason , indeed , for them to choose carefully where they wish to study . |
20 | At home I continually treat my dogs in a way which will encourage them to behave properly when they 're PAT dogging . ’ |
21 | Many of the candles and storm lanterns that had been lit when Maggie left the house were now out so it was a dark journey home , the pair of them stumbling more than once . |
22 | The shares added 3p to 171p after a 47% hike in the half-time divi to 0.5p — especially good news for the Cohen family , who between them hold more than 60% of the shares . |
23 | But in a way , I i i is it better for them to walk out than seethe and you know , I sa are you putting a bit much on there ? |
24 | In the days of the conglomerates momentum kept them going even though each step was rationalised alter it had been made . |
25 | Whenever possible he selected ones that contained pieces on the menopause and left them lying around where his wife could see them . |
26 | A good proportion of Rousettus 's clicks are clearly audible to us ( which by definition makes them sound rather than ultrasound : ultrasound is just the same as sound except that it is too high for humans to hear ) . |
27 | Above all , very few of them meet more than one of the criteria used in the inner-city for measuring network strength , and the essential reason for this is that their network ties are not mainly territorial . |
28 | Encourage them to play outside as there is always the possibility of bursting . |
29 | Unit-trust managers are paid for the share-picking and dealing skills that enable them to do better than elderly aunts ( how much better is a question : supposedly index-tracking funds scored only from 88.4% to 93.2% over the period ) . |
30 | It also advocated that the local authorities should ‘ maintain their presence in higher education ’ , adding that it would only be acceptable for them to do so if they could all ‘ restrain themselves from excessive and unreasonable interference in the running of large , developed polytechnics with the skills and competence to look after themselves ’ . |