Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they call out the names of the new members , I would like them to stand so they can all recognise and welcome them . |
| 2 | Moreover , general practitioners may also be asked to see patients specifically to help social workers ' assessment procedures , and many fear that such consultations will overwork and underpay them . |
| 3 | He 'd wait and starve them . |
| 4 | Although plants were being collected throughout this country and many were beginning to arrive from overseas , as yet the Apothecaries had no place where they might cultivate and study them scientifically . |
| 5 | The FF button will be pressed , the eager teens will search for something — a visual image , a ‘ song ’ , anything — that will excite and delight them . |
| 6 | So maybe the Indians understood this and tipped up the raft because they were trying to kill Father Firmin ( me ! ) so that Father Antonio would survive and baptise them . |
| 7 | A last-minute hiccup remained ; U Saw and Ba Sein announced that they could not sign , but Aung San brushed this aside : ‘ Let them resign and say they do not agree with the final statement and do not accept any responsibility for it . ’ |
| 8 | According to attribution theory people have an in-built need to explain events that happen to them , so they can integrate and master them . |
| 9 | They may scoff and call them Yob and co , but the revolution that these firms have brought to the legal market is probably here to stay . |
| 10 | He blanched and I would chill and bag them and put them in the freezer . |
| 11 | And yet these species are vanishing at the rate of one every half hour , before we can even identify and research them . |
| 12 | If so , how can we identify and trace them ? |
| 13 | It protects the weak against the strong , the poor against the rich , the women and children , fatherless and widows against those who would neglect and exploit them . |
| 14 | She directed me to take as many balls as I could carry and put them downstairs . |
| 15 | When their father died , he did what any good parent would do and left them his property . |
| 16 | There is no better antidote to bribes and gangster links than the knowledge that agencies independent of the executive will expose and punish them . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's common-sense the ice 'd drip and wet them all out . ’ |
| 18 | But , as produced in volume after volume by Freud and his successors , they are too intricate and complicated ; the interested reader must consult and consider them . |
| 19 | Just occasionally , she caught sight of the cooking pots bustling down the wagon towards Gabriel and pinning him in a corner , and then she would laugh and heave them back to the top of the cart . |
| 20 | It could certainly take us years to completely assimilate and comprehend them . |
| 21 | While I was in a single room , what I used to do was get hold of sani towels and put my dog ends in and let them smoulder and wave them out the hatch . |
| 22 | Of course , the letters ( which have been created for the British Institute of Management ) have been generalized , but you can tweak and customize them to suit your needs . |
| 23 | ‘ Then I must hurry and join them , ’ I said . |
| 24 | Jesus is not suggesting there are some who are righteous and some who are sinners , because we 're all sinners , all have sinned but he 's suggesting that those who do n't realize and acknowledge they 're sinners , he says , I have n't come to call you . |
| 25 | Is it not true that giving 17-year-olds fines does not work and sending them to prison is counterproductive ? |
| 26 | The most serious danger , however , is that the ‘ people bit ’ gets lost — plans often assume that people will work and prosecute them in logical , rational ways , which of course they do not . |
| 27 | The daughter of a sea-NYMPH and HELIOS the sun god , Circe was a powerful sorceress who despised men and would poison and trick them whenever she could . |
| 28 | If your father has a favourite hobby , gather together a few well-chosen gifts that you know he will like and wrap them in a presentation basket . |
| 29 | You can avoid any foods you do not like and replace them with others from these lists so long as you do not exceed your daily calorie allowance . |
| 30 | Several of them she had given to Scarlet , stipulating that she must pluck and draw them herself . |