Example sentences of "they [verb] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he pressed on he might none the less have taken Newcastle , which contained many Jacobite sympathisers , but while he dallied , turning aside to Hexham , 15 miles [ 24 km ] west of the city , the Newcastle magistrates called out the militia and trained bands , mobilised a force of 700 tough keelmen , who worked on the lighters in the harbour , patched up the ancient city wall , though they lacked cannon to defend it , and bricked up the gates . |
| 2 | They fear plans to widen the availability of alcohol licenses could see off many traditional pubs . |
| 3 | GOVERNORS at two linked comprehensive schools in Milton Keynes , Buckinghamshire , have voted unanimously to seek opting-out status because they fear moves to introduce selection and impose grammar schools . |
| 4 | Besides , it could be very profitable : PR firms set an inflated value on their own services , and they expected others to do the same . |
| 5 | In 1710 financiers in the City of London had formed the South Sea Company to bid for the right to use the privileges they expected Britain to get at the end of the war . |
| 6 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 7 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 8 | They expected diamonds to have a single atomic structure . |
| 9 | They all wanted flattery and nonsense and if they did anything that was n't right they expected people to cover up for them . |
| 10 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |
| 11 | The faster aircraft could make it across without landing , and when they got permission to fly at 10,000 feet , they left . |
| 12 | I think that we should have been safe on the track until they got others to come with them . |
| 13 | they got kids to look after , the first thing you do it 's , it is silly really you know but I mean |
| 14 | I once complained to Help The Aged about the way they got kids to compete for ‘ badges ’ by encouraging them to collect a target number of sponsors — and thus to pester neighbours . |
| 15 | Why do they make laws to abide by if they ca n't abide by ‘ em ? |
| 16 | Foucard spoke rapidly to Denis and they made movements to leave . |
| 17 | They made plans to spend the day together . |
| 18 | They made plans to meet in Harry 's room sometimes dating the Christmas Vacation which Edward devoted to intense preparations for an entrance scholarship to Merton and continuous work at Latin and Mathematics for Responsions . |
| 19 | Some drivers tried to help others who were trapped or injured … they made efforts to free the driver who died but could n't reach him . |
| 20 | The central committee took the view , however , that there could not be a ‘ party within a party ’ and they made preparations to expel members of the DPKR and removed Rutskoi from the Central Committee . |
| 21 | In a 1970 survey , they asked respondents to name the main social classes and the class to which they would ascribe themselves . |
| 22 | A bond began to be formed when they asked Martin to place protection for them on an icy pitch just below the summit . |
| 23 | Again it was noticeable that the departments which incorporated both pupil and teacher assessments were the ones that seemed to have a much stronger philosophical basis for the work they asked children to do . |
| 24 | Sums over histories also played an important psychological role in the development of physics since they led Feynman to propose his diagrammatic ideas about which I spoke so warmly at the start of this chapter . |
| 25 | Indeed there is a sense in which the clarity of his spiritual and theological doctrines inhibited clarity on political issues by relegating them to a position of relative unimportance : they led Anselm to believe that the system of joint secular and ecclesiastical responsibility for the functioning of the Church was as acceptable as any other . |
| 26 | ‘ And when you found out about this new plan of theirs , they kidnapped Liam to stop you telling . ’ |
| 27 | We picked Yvonne up at the top of the slip by the RNLI shed where they sold stuff to help pay for the lifeboat . |
| 28 | But it can be assumed that many millions of poor rural women are caught in a vicious cycle : they eat food to get human energy , and then spend all this energy in producing food and collecting the energy needed to cook it . |
| 29 | Following the serious disturbances in a number of Britain 's cities during the summer of 1985 , the Central Council of Probation Committees strongly recommended to its members that they develop policies to take account of the multiple social deprivations experienced by many probationers , particularly those living in urban areas . |
| 30 | ‘ Did n't they want Britain to go in ’ she asked . |