Example sentences of "[verb] they [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , more than that , it made them feel involved at last . |
| 2 | So Anna bullied the trustees into changing her investments , she made them get rid of large blocks of French loan and Russian railways and go into something pacific and domestic instead like American soap companies . |
| 3 | You expected them to stay put . |
| 4 | Once they dominated the countryside , but intensive farming led to many being ripped up and the sheer cost of maintaining them has seen many fall into neglect . |
| 5 | Indeed , the business of turning some of the Act 's most central provisions into the regulations needed to implement them has proved so exceedingly complex that some crucial regulations , more than six years later , are still in draft . |
| 6 | The exploration of the American west revealed many such areas , and efforts to preserve them had begun at an early stage . |
| 7 | The first thirteen babies to claim them have won the first of their competitions . |
| 8 | You can also find inspirational management texts designed to tell top executives how to be kinder to employees , treat them with respect , listen to them , and make them feel appreciated . |
| 9 | A lot of victims who 've received them have told me what an eerie feeling it is . |
| 10 | ‘ Leave them alone until someone who understands them has examined the site . |
| 11 | Why does not he tell Russia and the other former Soviet Union countries that we want them to get rid of nuclear weapons ? |
| 12 | All my investigators who want them have got personal alarms of their own . |
| 13 | The thesis of government overload is that as the responsibilities of government have increased , its capacity to meet them has decreased : the combination of these two features has resulted in an overloading of government . |
| 14 | The gifts had become a pressure , an embarrassment , and her refusal to accept them had made him manipulative . |
| 15 | Neither the Liberal measures nor any of the social security measures that have succeeded them have involved the wholesale redistribution of resources . |
| 16 | And if so why should it be supposed they had adventured into the forest rather than eastward towards the corn lands and the nearer towns , and the coast ? |
| 17 | Oh if they 've won they 've done it . |
| 18 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 19 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 20 | She 's a golden eagle like you and because she 's dying they 've brought you here to replace her . |
| 21 | I did n't know they had blocked that from you . |
| 22 | ‘ We did n't even know they had split up . |
| 23 | And the gardens they 've made , they 've made beautiful and do you know they 've had permission to use the old name . |
| 24 | Adam pops his head in to ask ‘ Did you know they 've removed the word ‘ gullible ’ from the English dictionary ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Do you know they 've got a Jew in the partnership now ? |
| 26 | There must be hundreds of women walking about who do n't even know they 've got toxoplasmosis . ’ |
| 27 | Most people wo n't know they 've got it anyway . |
| 28 | Most people wo n't know they 've got it anyway . |
| 29 | Do you know they 've got these bulldozers up the other end up near ours . |
| 30 | Sidney , do you know they 've got a hundred and ten golf courses . |