Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court ordered them to carry out surveys of how the birds would be affected and to prepare alternative routes for the pipeline . |
| 2 | Khumalo 's allegations were strengthened by similar claims by two gang members who said that the security forces had recruited , trained and armed them to carry out attacks on ANC supporters . |
| 3 | There were rows of them hanging on hooks , and stacks of them leaning against one another on the floor . |
| 4 | The teacher had discussed a topic with the children , and then encouraged them to write down sentences constructed from words used in their own speech . |
| 5 | This came about because entrepreneurs realised that they could maintain higher profits by not indulging in fierce competition which forced them to pass on benefits to consumers . |
| 6 | Both carry notebooks with them to jot down ideas for sketches . |
| 7 | Another thing — Vic would n't let them bring in newspapers , which pissed me off . |
| 8 | Speakers at the conference also criticized the Department of the Environment for not providing local authorities with funds to enable them to track down offenders . |
| 9 | When they saw that the war could not be won , even as early as 1941 , some of them opened up lines of communication with us and the British . ’ |
| 10 | Both of them poring over maps and guide books , planning the itinerary of every marvellous day . |
| 11 | Almost every major city in Britain has a police force armed with plastic bullets , CS gas and live firearms , and trained to use them to put down disturbances . |
| 12 | A whole battery of measures was tried in an attempt to get them to give up cigarettes . |
| 13 | Draft a letter to my council , Nicholas , notifying them that I have already had the news of the action at Pilleth , and asking them to send out orders for the knights and squires of all the midland counties to meet me at Lichfield , fully prepared , mounted and arrayed for war , by the seventh day of July . |
| 14 | The wealth and power of the Victorian cities and the civic pride expressed in their impressive town halls , first enabled them to pioneer public services ; later it permitted them to build up teams of technical staff and take on a range of tasks of increasing complexity and sensitivity . |
| 15 | Natural toxins are contained in most foods : for instance , vegetables use them to fight off pests and bacteria produce them in meat . |
| 16 | They were warned of the danger of giving credit — or too much credit at any rate — to mostly illiterate other ranks who were here today and gone tomorrow , and allowing them to run up debts which they had not the slightest chance , or intention , of paying . |
| 17 | BRYAN BEESON and Jason Nicolle , two members of the England team whose make-up has caused so much controversy , created sensations yesterday when each of them brought down members of Pakistan 's defending world title team at the World Open Championships here . |
| 18 | Many of them shoot out beams of high-speed particles in opposite directions , which appear to radio telescopes as ‘ jets ’ of emission . |
| 19 | It uses them to turn over stones when it is looking for food . |
| 20 | He is also sceptical or the argument that parasuicides and the unemployed are linked by personality disorders which make it difficult for them to hold down jobs . |
| 21 | Both the Right and the Left share the same awe at the thought of the miners on the move — they bring down governments , they are the labour movement 's prizefighters , our local heroes . |
| 22 | Ghosts they may be but they bring back memories of broken hearts , foul deeds , sinister minds , and souls stained with the blackness of hell . |
| 23 | When writers go abroad they bring back ideas , understandably enough , and the Russian souvenir shop is no less full of wonders for having had its door opened further . |
| 24 | They bring back tales which they relate over the dinner table at Blackfriars . ’ |
| 25 | They sell off things , you know . |
| 26 | They won their obscenity trial but poverty drove them to a caravan beside a Methodist chapel where they lived off skips , meeting other swinging exiles and learning how much people waste . |
| 27 | Of course they did not produce an abstract treatise on Freedom , in which they laid out principles of action in deductive orderliness . |
| 28 | And do they make up verses and things for it ? |
| 29 | When they did n't get the answers they wanted , they made up theories of their own . |
| 30 | San Francisco has had a privatised police force since 1851 , when the city cops were so desperate for help that they sold off districts to private enterprise . |