Example sentences of "and [vb base] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if there was any one reason which , more than any other , ensured his defeat at the ensuing general election , then surely it was the inability of the trade union movement to assume during what had therefore become the winter of discontent , the responsibility required of them as a justification of the power and influence they claimed . |
| 2 | Would you recognise that we live a society where some men hate women and are able to use whatever power and influence they have to project an image of women which is which is hateful ? |
| 3 | I simulate ‘ what-ifs ’ galore From lightning strikes to Third World War ; No problems with communication — With Stratos I can reach the Nation [ Except for those so low and mean They have n't got a PC screen … |
| 4 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 5 | take your love and promises and make them last . |
| 6 | promises and make them last . |
| 7 | ‘ New entrants put pressure on existing companies and make them change their existing practices , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Why Sir , they blind still those they take , And make them tell the stories of their lives , Which known , they do accordingly . |
| 9 | There is evidence that the body clock of ‘ larks ’ runs faster than average , so that there is a tendency for the clock to wake them up earlier — and make them feel tired earlier . |
| 10 | In Africa visitors are looked upon as a blessing and people go out of their way to meet them and make them feel truly welcome and at home . |
| 11 | Our technique is to make customers feel relaxed and make them feel they are buying the right car for their needs . ’ |
| 12 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 13 | Try telephoning the practice nurse in advance so that she will know your son or daughter 's name and make them feel welcome and special when you arrive . |
| 14 | Motivate others and make them feel confident . |
| 15 | You can also find inspirational management texts designed to tell top executives how to be kinder to employees , treat them with respect , listen to them , and make them feel appreciated . |
| 16 | The correlations with the various scales give some indication of what types of situation subjects think of as risky , particularly those which require high levels of concentration , feel stressful and make them feel they are not in control . |
| 17 | What we need to do is get our members and make them feel that they 're part of Europe , not dispossessed by it , at this moment in the time there 's not a lot for them in consideration of Europe . |
| 18 | Those who have had facts imparted to them effectively will pass the tests and those who have not will fail to pass the tests , and when the lists are read out on Speech Day the incompetence of the bad fact-imparters will be revealed to the world and this will act as a goad and make them impart their facts better in future … . ’ |
| 19 | and make them go away . |
| 20 | I went into the water industry at seventeen years , and I 've still not figured out how to do these new ones and make them go backwards I can do the other ones . |
| 21 | Likes to set things out and make them go you know |
| 22 | Mr Nash added that the whole basis of ASB chairman David Tweedie 's approach was to stop people looking at special figures and make them examine various factors . |
| 23 | If you present someone with a set of stripes on a TV screen and make them move at right angles to their long axis , that is the direction in which the person will see them move . |
| 24 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 25 | I will be able to bring what is going on here in science back to the children in the classroom , and make them realise that it is not so far away from what they are learning about . |
| 26 | She believes some people will vote Labour to shake up the Conservatives and make them reconsider their policies . |
| 27 | so all that writing is actually surrounding your picture is n't it , you 've come up with your sensational picture and then you surround your sensational picture with your writing , I was saying to him with these little sub-headings like trapped , right , cost , holiday , okay which actually keep your reader hooked and make them want to read on . |
| 28 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 29 | And in using these terms , we reinforce such attitudes and make them seem like something timelessly true about women . |
| 30 | Since Legnani first danced the famous thirty-two fouettës in Swan Lake , it sometimes seems that choreographers lacking ideas for a spectacular finish to a solo , send the dancer spinning faster and faster round the stage , or set them centre stage and make them turn with increasingly difficult poses . |