Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were swanning around looking pretty , our families were working their fingers to the bone for virtually nothing and now Miss High-and-Mighty thinks we should admire them . |
| 2 | They took assets on to their books assuming they would sell them at a profit shortly afterwards . |
| 3 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 4 | However , Jim says he 'll take them . |
| 5 | Positive , negative , and the thing at the end is a Z , of sorts All scores above the mean , if you converted them to a Z score you would expect them to be positive . |
| 6 | The firm should keep the matter under regular review and be alert to the possibility of a breach in the wall ( accidental or otherwise ) or to other circumstances arising which would prevent them from continuing to act : in which events the client must be informed immediately . |
| 7 | As the blocks fall you must guide them to align similar objects . |
| 8 | Most sailors soon tire of sailing in the same place all the time and look for new places to sail which will give them variety and a challenge . |
| 9 | The Daniels believe it 'll cost them thousands to clean and repair their home . |
| 10 | Did n't for a moment think you 'd want them out of your sight . |
| 11 | ‘ Capron said he 'd call them off now he had the information he wanted . ’ |
| 12 | If such a set of permutations exists we will call them a matching of the two ALT patterns . |
| 13 | By using air- to-air refuelling you can keep them airborne far longer than they would normally be able to using our own internal fuel . |
| 14 | Anyway , he was a Captain in the Army and he had these slides of erm his , his journeys erm er in Arabia and he used to show this with er great regularity not only to erm Units of H M Forces but also to the er shifts , the A R P shifts he used to amuse them by |
| 15 | He was prepared to stand out and fight on their own , and let the people of West Ham say who should represent them . |
| 16 | And to encourage people to work they would make them fill in a job-sheet saying how many forms they had booked in . |
| 17 | However , in order for the abdominals to grow you must treat them like any other muscle group , and work them hard for 8 to 12 reps using 3 to 4 sets . |
| 18 | As despair grew and self respect diminished we would take them at their unspoken word and go and buy a bottle of anaesthetic and uncork the genie who would play merry hell with the last vestige of hope of recovery . |
| 19 | ‘ You thought that if you turned up in the smart suit and with the laser-beam smile you 'd wow them into panting agreement ? ’ |
| 20 | Right , now that 's what a decimal is a decimal is , that 's what a decimal is , and there are some people think we should write them like this , or you could n't , you could n't do this . |
| 21 | People think they can spend them anywhere and they can not . ’ |
| 22 | If you live in a flat provided with chutes or containers in a bin store you MUST use them . |
| 23 | While banks welcome the change , some critics fear it could do them more harm than good . |
| 24 | Excuses abound : world markets have collapsed , diet-conscious Europeans are eating less red meat , some people in Britain fear it will give them mad cow disease . |
| 25 | ‘ Richardson thinks he can make them his kind of people . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Thought mebbe you could use them . ’ |
| 27 | He 'd seen enough trees dose to the boundary to know he could use them to scale up , and his coat would protect him against the barbed wire . |
| 28 | And next year 's student , or even next term 's , perhaps , depending on how quick you do it , your conversations , what you 're doing now , once they 're transcribed and put onto disk would be very interesting , because we 'll have a disk from our St Mary 's students , transcribed , because Steve promised he would get them all transcribed . |
| 29 | Jaguar says it will sue them for breach of contract . |
| 30 | But if your men attack we shall mow them down . |