Example sentences of "[vb infin] they [adv prt] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could throw them out and replace them with Bretons , ’ said Thorfinn . |
| 2 | Perhaps the Gruagach had been following them , keeping just out of sight , waiting until they dismounted , ready to reach out and scoop them up and carry them back to Tara and the roasting spits … |
| 3 | I think could chop them up and use them to make road surfaces with . |
| 4 | Cos I mean , yo you can easily chop them off and put summat else smaller on ca n't you with lamps on ? |
| 5 | The other table what we had before was better , was no much so much time involved , by the time you 'd screw them round and turn 'em , to saw them into blocks there was a lot of time involved in it . |
| 6 | When the Minotaur heard their cries it would seek them out and kill them . |
| 7 | Look how he blooded Speed and Batty … he did nt chuck them in and hope for the best . |
| 8 | And I only hope that in the end our roads will become so clogged with all these fume-belching cars and lorries that everyone will give them up and start going by train again . |
| 9 | A pensioner who 's been robbed of more than three thousand pounds in three months , says if the men are caught , the judge should lock them up and throw away the key . |
| 10 | no you ca n't lock them up and throw away the key , that 's that 's , in a Christian society , that 's not on , you 've got to do something to help them to rehabilitate themselves . |
| 11 | A guy with a face like a tired wrestler says , ‘ Let's do them over and dump them somewhere . |
| 12 | ‘ Put the rest of your clothes out on the landing ; I 'll rinse them through and put them in the drier . |
| 13 | Morris clipped the papers together and tossed them across onto Dyson 's desk Dyson had for some reason assumed that Morris would bring them over and stand beside him while he went through them . |
| 14 | A top dressing of grit , though not essential , will show them off and avoid soil splashes on their delicate petals . |
| 15 | Or I might ri ring ring them up and ask them . |
| 16 | And then you 've got ta ring them up and ask them again to see who 's to see who Cos they usually say , Well I 'll see what I can do , and then you 've got to ring them up again and see if they 've done anything , and and er and then sometimes you 've got ta ring them up again . |
| 17 | No , I 'll I 'll I 'll ring them up and book it for eight . |
| 18 | If you do n't fucking get the clients out , I 'll ring them up and do it myself ! " |
| 19 | I could ring them up and say I 'm in touch with your competition in Portugal |
| 20 | I 'm gon na ring them up and say that I 've found her ! |
| 21 | I 'll ring them up and see if they 've got any places left . |
| 22 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 23 | I can not weigh them up and judge them . |
| 24 | " In a small garden , I think it 's nice to use lots so that you can move them around and build up height where you might not have any . |
| 25 | Vivienne would pick them up and say , it 's alright I 'll just wash them down and put them back on the rack . |
| 26 | Their greatest fear is that as they become weaker , ‘ caring authorities ’ will take them over and whisk them away to be ‘ looked after properly ’ . |
| 27 | Next time the Snows are on the programme : ‘ It would be nice if you and I could take them on and split them up , ’ Mr Wilson said . |
| 28 | So you can just sort of take them out and put them on your desk , all the bone erm all the pottery . |
| 29 | We 'll take them out and throw them away and that 's all within the maker of the er , of the wings , er take them out , throw them away , er take the bumper off , throw that away , right , get a new number plate , a new bumper right cos the bumper 's got to come off anyway with the wings |
| 30 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |