Example sentences of "they [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The semiconductor devices are all fairly sensitive to excess heat , so do n't fry them during soldering ! |
| 2 | Although it emphasises that the opportunities are not guaranteed to find success , market-orientated businesses should find them worth considering . |
| 3 | There were dangers in this silence — Wilson well understood that the steady remittance of funds for the care of Oreste constituted a claim on him over and above that of natural parentage — but she thought them worth risking . |
| 4 | I 've erm contacted them through living there and working with them as well . |
| 5 | Six Hampdens were lost , three of them through running out of fuel on the return . |
| 6 | The nature of these changes , then , can be seen as some confirmation that the trends identified by Dearlove were genuine enough , but that working them through has taken much longer to achieve and involved much more upheaval than his initial analysis would have suggested . |
| 7 | The cowering patrons were pulling silver crucifixes from their pockets and holding them between trembling fingers . |
| 8 | As one constable stated , the ‘ Action Men ’ who are fitness conscious and orientated towards crime-fighting only adopt this mode ‘ to get them off doing work ’ . |
| 9 | On the other hand , my journeys in Wiltshire had made me a familiar figure to the police , and I consulted them about evacuating from London a distinguished man , of whose name , I need hardly say , they had never heard . |
| 10 | Mr Muawad , a pro-Syrian Maronite Christian , met deputies in the village of Ehden in the Syrian-controlled north to consult them about forming a cabinet , due to be announced this week . |
| 11 | In preparing the script , talk to them about writing for speaking . |
| 12 | The problem is that if one of the projects you tell them about goes wrong , as inevitably it will , they 're inclined to hold it against you . |
| 13 | In fact we turned up some gas shares on the way , but er and a bit of cash , but that was n't enough to pay the funeral accounts and she made no provision for paying any of the bills so I sold the gas shares towards paying the funeral account and then got shouted at by the er beneficiary children because I had n't consulted them about selling the gas shares and I said Well , they have to be sold because there 's bills to pay and there is no way of dealing with that . |
| 14 | Right people here at half past three , if I have to tell them about fooling about . |
| 15 | It 's quicker for me to clear up/wash up and so on than to argue with them about doing it . |
| 16 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 17 | ‘ However , current Education Minister John Patten said he regarded Church schools as making a crucial contribution to education but he had n't actually consulted them about opting out . ’ |
| 18 | They have not right to take and fund matters to the Higher Courts to review the decisions of the Government , the executive in other words , and they themselves have no idea how they 're meant to fulfil this role that the Government sees them as having . |
| 19 | Below are some guidelines you could give them for using video on their own . |
| 20 | we used to charge them for using our overhead and erm , so I suppose trolley buses were used here because it was so convenient . |
| 21 | A group of physically handicapped people are protesting over plans to charge them for using day centres . |
| 22 | And she was annoyed with them for knowing so much , she had begun to feel safe in the hotel . |
| 23 | ‘ You can take them off the instant you do n't need them for reading . ’ |
| 24 | but when we come to testing them for reading erm on the national curriculum to say level one , level two , level three |
| 25 | How should I prepare them for repainting ? |
| 26 | This training was to elucidate the objectives of the study , to familiarise interviewers with the questionnaire , and to prepare them for conducting interviews on intimate and possibly sensitive questions . |
| 27 | good to use them for swinging in the trees . |
| 28 | On Saturday mornings she took them for riding lessons , waited and took them back , while Norm went out to play golf . |
| 29 | Flick knives have caused problems when trying to decide whether they are offensive weapons by themselves ( with out having to prove the intent of the possessor to use them for causing injury ) . |
| 30 | And critics of the men inside both black and white communities have criticized them for causing bloodshed . |