Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to miss them growing up . ’ |
| 2 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 3 | Frog eggs are about one to two millimetres in diameter and , like the chick , have enough yolk to enable them to grow to a stage when they can feed themselves . |
| 4 | Right , from Highgate has said if the good lord wanted cats to fly he would 've given them wings , it 's cruel doing things like that to animals . |
| 5 | I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly . |
| 6 | Erm not any more I do n't I 've given them all away hello , are there any spare handouts in the room ? |
| 7 | No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem . |
| 8 | As long as they do n't want to borrow them . |
| 9 | The two other boys were sitting neatly on a sofa in the distance but they failed to acknowledge them . |
| 10 | Here knowledge of material practices and social understanding combine to enable them to read the text in specific ways . |
| 11 | Where feminist psychologists recognize social differences , they , like conventional psychologists , tend to treat them as psychological variables of the usual sort , controllable , and equivalent to each other . |
| 12 | In a country of 17 million people , around one million actually travelled to see them as they journeyed from city to city . |
| 13 | We goin' pick them like they ripe avocados . ’ |
| 14 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 15 | He had not seen her all day and badly wanted to say goodbye , but there was no sign of her in the crowd that had gathered to see them off . |
| 16 | ‘ It is important that they do not allow the depressing things they have heard to affect them ; that they do not take them home with them . ’ |
| 17 | Even if the government backs legislation ( and even more so when it does not and the Houses find themselves confronted by a Private Member 's Bill ) no Bill will ever be passed which offends against the deeply held beliefs of Members , unless amended to accommodate them . |
| 18 | many and I 've stopped eating them at Christmas when I brought them and I started eating them again . |
| 19 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 20 | The G M B and other unions , but principally the G M B cos that 's one I 'm concerned about , needs to pressurize councillors and officers because councillors and officers have been bombarded with almost as much legislation as the trade unions have had from the Tory government and most of them actually just want an easy time , so you 've got to hassle them , you got to harass them what they do . |
| 21 | ‘ I hate to see them do that , but it is better than the children being trampled underfoot in the rush . |
| 22 | ‘ I love animals and hate to see them killed , ’ said Clara McKay , 81 . |
| 23 | Also , I love animals and hate to see them suffer . |
| 24 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 25 | that 's better really , and we surely do n't want to lose them do we ? |
| 26 | When they have moved forwards as far as they feel they want to go they then leave one of the bottles , place both their hands on the other and have to get back without touching the the floor with any part of their body . |
| 27 | I hope people will want to see them . |
| 28 | ‘ I … er … but why do you want to see them ? ’ he asked plaintively . |
| 29 | He 'd want to see them . |
| 30 | The banks are businesses too and we do not want to see them closed down . ’ |