Example sentences of "and [vb base] they " in BNC.

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1 Their festivals were to be a commemoration of God 's acts and even some of their clothes were to carry a reminder : ‘ Into this tassel you shall work a violet thread , and whenever you see this in the tassel , you shall remember all the Lord 's commands and obey them . ’
2 How quickly things change in racing and change they certainly have this week .
3 David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle .
4 we 're prepared to look at the the client reports and change them so that they become as good as we , we can get them .
5 Both philology and Catholicism are here presented as ‘ languages ’ which Julia is unable to master because she wants to question them and change them rather than accept their inherent systematicity .
6 Put him on so and so , and so and so on that , and change them about .
7 and change them to a bigger size
8 Yeah , well you then just go and change them for that one drawing !
9 Every morning I come up and comb them , keep them soft , pleasant-looking .
10 More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back .
11 The Thames was flowing full and furious , the water greedily lapping their feet as if it would like to catch them and drag them under its swollen black surface .
12 The BTEC HND courses consistently and successfully attract students of a more practical than academic inclination , and develop them to the stage where their natural pragmatic talents have been enhanced with a rigorous regime of integrated business skills .
13 You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth .
14 The suggestion was made that there should be community discussions with LEDU , that West Belfast people , in the absence of ideas from the IDB , are going to have to come up with their own ideas and develop them in conjunction with the universities , industrialists , and so on .
15 They cause no great problem to anybody , and what ought to happen is that the gipsies and certainly the tinkers ought to be encouraged to buy sites and develop them and police them themselves .
16 Realising that before another couple of days had passed , she and Sarah would be able to make the journey Kirkbymoorside and book them two inside seats on the Leeds coach .
17 Ireland was already there with its litany of laments , not thinly preserved , like the cultural echo that accompanies some exiles and émigrés into a new country where time will absorb the native generation 's traces of foreign identity and dispel them .
18 ‘ People would expect me to come into a room and crack them up , ’ Rowan , 36 , told Cosmopolitan magazine .
19 Going south out of Épernay into the so-called Cubry valley , the vineyards of Pierry , Moussy and Vinay have south and south-east facing aspects , while across the valley towards Vaudancourt and Chavot they again face north , yet like those in the Montagne , seem to thrive .
20 Drain the prawns thoroughly and pat them dry on kitchen paper .
21 Detectives say they now want to talk to all her former clients , and insist they 'll be as sensitive as possible .
22 Maybe we should drive round to Fahan and track them down . ’
23 What about a chess-playing machine , programmed to examine the board and then ‘ imagine ’ thousands of possible moves and evaluate them in relation to each other ?
24 It is time to take account of that difference between perceiving from ‘ Now ’ and ‘ I ’ and imagining from other viewpoints which we have so far put aside as irrelevant.4 Although one can respond with some awareness to remote or hypothetical situations , and evaluate them sub specie aeternitatis , everyone 's actual choices of ends are of course confined to his own present and future and to his effective scope of action .
25 Based in the UK , MAP is an ecumenical organisation that aims to increase media awareness , to encourage critical dialogue with media practitioners and to recognise the underlying values in the media and evaluate them from a Christian viewpoint .
26 They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way .
27 There are , for example , points of difference between the two men themselves in terms of background and , very probably , of character and disposition which , could one know them fully and evaluate them properly , might allow a closer and more subtle comparison .
28 Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective .
29 Then you strip it of its bark and , while the wood is still green and supple , you bend back the thin limbs and bind them in place with string , When you 've done that you have to leave it on a drying rack above the fire for … oh , I suppose about three months .
30 Since , as Alexander Cruden put it , ‘ men can not dive into the hearts of others ’ , critics should be careful not to abuse the privileged vision they enjoy , compared to the false and occluded images that the characters in the play have to go on , and judge them disparagingly .
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