Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could know that they fell into the hands of men of learning and curiosity , I should be more easy about them . |
| 2 | Or do you wait till they tire of the taunting and go to release the victim when the coast is clear ? |
| 3 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 4 | LITTLE did they know as they lazed by the pool that the roof was about to fall in . |
| 5 | They did not contest that they participated in the crime ring , but said they had no choice because of pressure from Chinese secret societies . |
| 6 | But the danger is that if relief is too often refused on such grounds it may give decision-makers the signal that it does not really matter whether they act within the law or not , so long as the decision is ‘ right ’ . |
| 7 | In addition , since the CAB did not succeed when they pressed for the extension of legal aid to cover representation at industrial tribunals , there simply is no other organisation able to take on this work . |
| 8 | In the past , in the past these children would be so severely mentally handicapped that they could n't lead a normal life , but if , if your able to control this disease and bring them up intellectually normal so that they 're like everybody else , they 're going to have the same life expectation and hopes and aspirations as the best , that 's the best of us , and what do women do when they get to the |
| 9 | How did the people here feel when they heard of the raid ? |
| 10 | From 9.30 to 5.30pm , 6 days a week , we smother the children with suncream , take them for walks , supervise those that can swim as they play in the water , feed them and entertain them with games . |
| 11 | Logically , these latter producers can claim that they contribute to the value of exports , and are therefore entitled to part of the proceeds . |
| 12 | What we will be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that customers can see before they enter into the transaction and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic . |
| 13 | No , what we would be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that the customers can see before they enter into the transaction , and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic . |
| 14 | Which incidentally you can clean as they hang at the window . |
| 15 | Indeed , the Teds had appeared on the streets before postwar meat-rationing had been abandoned in Britain — which might suggest that they belonged to the world of postwar austerity , rather than ‘ affluence ’ . |
| 16 | Government policy was , and is , to maintain urban densities to conserve farming land , and when the developers won an appeal on the second half at a density of twelve houses per acre , the developer asked the district council whether , in view of the Secretary of State 's decision , they would agree to waive the restriction ( which they could still enforce if they wished under the Section 52 agreement ) ; this the district council agreed to do . |
| 17 | It 's hoped the video will be distributed around young drivers so they can see what can happen if they take to the road without thought for safety . |
| 18 | Bernice felt sorry , but thought many more would die before they escaped from the castle . |
| 19 | Do n't overdo it , though ; if they go through a side-door ( i.e. , into rooms 25 or 27 ) they do n't have to make another WP test when they return to the corridor part-way along . |
| 20 | This did not mean that ideas and values came from some supernatural source , but it did mean that they came from the history of society , not the history of the individual . |
| 21 | Yet , in contrast to official policy , Contact staff allowed users to come and go as they pleased in the centres . |
| 22 | Their cash bonus for winning is the same as England players will receive if they proceed to the finals of the competition in America in 1994 . |
| 23 | After they realised that the warriors did not care if they stayed in the saddle or not , Yuan , Alexei and the others got down as well . |
| 24 | And secondly , you 'll get a greater , obviously a greater amount of litter , because they do eat as they walk across the sites . |
| 25 | ‘ As you say , when these instructions arrive , you 'll find that they come from the very top . |
| 26 | Clouds of steam would rise as they scooped beneath the surface of the warm fermenting heap , and as they carried their loaded baskets through the frosty morning air . |
| 27 | I think the interest that people have in those areas show that there is that hunger for a deep personal kind of faith , which they do n't usually find when they worship in the churches . |