Example sentences of "[verb] they [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will oblige them to make long drives across the desert to Egypt or Tunisia when they want to leave the country . |
| 2 | That barrier , a common external tariff , was integral to the Treaty of Rome , which wanted to go beyond a free trade area to a customs union , which the Six believed was a far more effective way of developing the potential of their internal market , the logic of which would ultimately oblige them to adopt common policies and harmonise their regulations . |
| 3 | Yes er what what er the pitch I think in fact I 've heard them say this er because I 've been out with two of the top fliers up here |
| 4 | In other words , the payment of high dividends depresses the security 's price which means that investors require a higher income rate of return to induce them to hold those securities paying high dividends . |
| 5 | He believed that the Great Powers would be ‘ in a position to exert the pressure on their clients necessary to induce them to accept such arrangements ’ . |
| 6 | After young bands have had a couple of hit singles , with their album selling well , everybody wants to see them perform live . |
| 7 | We like to see them brought low , made to suffer , made to pay . |
| 8 | It was strange to see them grown older , and more familiar with the Corporal , whom they 'd always feared , than me , their old mentor . |
| 9 | ‘ I hate to see them do that , but it is better than the children being trampled underfoot in the rush . |
| 10 | The band failed to advise said fans , who have endured a five-year wait to see them play live in the UK , that tickets went on sale last Saturday , and sold out on the same day . |
| 11 | FRED 1 's proposals in respect of extraordinary items were generally well received , although several commentators wanted to see them taken one stage further and recommended banning the use of the category of extraordinary items . |
| 12 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 13 | ‘ Profit-centre ’ managers in their turn submit to the iron law of quarterly or annual return-on-investment ( ROI ) calculation , which hardly encourages them to become far-sighted captains of industry . |
| 14 | ‘ Leaving videos aside , I wo n't sign a band without seeing them perform live , if that is possible . |
| 15 | Seeing them like that , and the strange fear in their faces , stirred Harry in a way he could not quite understand , and for a moment he almost felt sorry for them . |
| 16 | Other ways we find bands include : ( a ) being recognized in the industry as a company that is worth approaching ( managers with new artists drop in to play a tape to me or any of the other A&R people ) ; ( b ) demo tapes ( they all get heard eventually , but to get your tape picked out of the pile for special attention is difficult ) ; ( c ) seeing them play live on the London circuit . |
| 17 | We have pressed them to make provisional payments where necessary , to ensure that students do not suffer hardship . |
| 18 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
| 19 | A teacher at the junior high school in the town of Kizu made them hold negative and positive terminals while he turned on an electric current . |
| 20 | What if it made them go deeper ? |
| 21 | She looked different with her hair cut and it made them feel shy . |
| 22 | The more able in the group felt they ‘ could n't tell us anything we do n't already know ’ or they were ‘ depressing ’ , while the remainder said that they did not like them because they made them feel inadequate . |
| 23 | The audience , too , was painfully hungry and yet in the presence of food which was not apparently destined for their stomachs ; this made them feel weak and peevish . |
| 24 | Probably Dizzy 's gang , keeping out of the way in case the sight of others working made them feel weak . |
| 25 | Telling the poorer workers that others were producing more , simply led to demoralisation ; they already knew that , and telling them so only made them feel worse . |
| 26 | Whether that made them feel better , one will never know . |
| 27 | Working alongside such eroticism made them feel awkward . |
| 28 | It was found that some aromas made people feel drowsy , others made them feel uplifted or even euphoric . |
| 29 | They concluded that by taking people out of their own homes , however modest , they were being removed from conditions which they knew and made them feel secure into ‘ a new social environment in which priority is given to the collectivity over the individual . ’ |
| 30 | Stepping out made them feel bold and confident and strong . |