Example sentences of "[vb base] they [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's the easiest way of getting your firewood — cut the trees at the edge of the forest and send them rolling down to the bottom . |
| 3 | I want them to hear more about the world — Europe , South East Asia , the developing world . |
| 4 | Pity they went astray in the middle . |
| 5 | Er and things like sort of er midday and a late evening er usually fine , and then you have y quite a lot of asthmatics say they wake up in the night , somewhere between two to five . |
| 6 | The owners say they came up with the idea first . |
| 7 | Let them sweat gently in the butter for 5–6 minutes . |
| 8 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
| 9 | Let them sleep here beside the cabin . ’ |
| 10 | They let them surge out at the gate and shake themselves loose of restraint to take their several ways . |
| 11 | They let them slide around on the polished floor and listen to music on the ward radio . |
| 12 | He squatted and started to pick them up , then let them drop back to the floor and just crouched there and put his hands over his face and started to cry . |
| 13 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 14 | ‘ Before , we used to give people the tools and let them get on with the modelling , ’ Mr Wise explains . |
| 15 | Do n't punish them for the way in which they behave today and let them get away with the same thing tomorrow just because your own mood is different , or the matter is n't worth ‘ all that bother ’ anyway . |
| 16 | She did not take those hours out and contemplate them ; she simply let them lie somewhere in the head , to surface no doubt at some point of low resistance . |
| 17 | Separate the £50 , £20 , £10 , £5 , £1 notes and stack them face upwards in the same direction . |
| 18 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 19 | AI workers are , by and large , naive materialists and mechanists , and for them those are not positions to be justified , but simply assumptions that allow them to get on with the job of constructing mechanical analogues or simulations of ourselves , who are , in Minsky 's memorable phrase , ‘ meat machines ’ . |
| 20 | Deal them face upwards on the table in groups of two but so that each card can be clearly seen . |
| 21 | ‘ However well acted and directed they are , Americans find they hold back on the emotions . |
| 22 | I believe they went out to The Crown afterwards . ’ |
| 23 | We believe they started up in the mid-1930s , but by 1970 seemed to have closed down . |
| 24 | I mean they travel all over the world these people . |
| 25 | We usually ask them to arrive ahead of the rest so that we can see them safely settled before the rush starts . ’ |
| 26 | I must write to the Michelin and ask them to look again at the Fermette Marboeuf ! |
| 27 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will take the case to his colleagues in the Council of Ministers and ask them to look again at the proposals , which would be damaging not only to British industry but to industries — including tourism — right across the Community . |
| 28 | I I 'm , this does n't seem to me , a very intelligent way , I I , somehow or other you 've got to get the parents , win them to behave properly towards the children without the threat of a heavy fine on their head . |
| 29 | Given all these considerations , some supposedly empirical , but others more clearly normative , Schumpeter concluded that the proper role of the people was to choose their rulers through competitive elections , and then leave them to get on with the business of governing . |
| 30 | Think they did away with the green |