Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] and [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Buchanan had to hit them and push them to the top of the rock . |
| 2 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 3 | I remember when the Andy Warhol lot came with Pork to The Roundhouse — we all went off specially to see them and meet them afterwards . ’ |
| 4 | And what he used to do in this , he had a string in the and er he could the string put some some er crumbs in the in the er in a and the birds go in and he used to he used to catch them and we used to kill them and pluck them you know . |
| 5 | Everyone buckled up and braved a face to see everyone and say their goodbyes as it was a parting for many good friends , both teachers and pupils . |
| 6 | ‘ But I would like to thank them and let them know how very grateful I am and how much it helps to know his grave is being cared for . ’ |
| 7 | I was glad of Ika 's presence to support me and supplement my responses : |
| 8 | Their company seemed to drain me and send me into a state of nervous exhaustion after even a short while . |
| 9 | You want to psycho-analyse me and send me home with all my little idiosyncrasies ironed out ! ’ |
| 10 | In Africa visitors are looked upon as a blessing and people go out of their way to meet them and make them feel truly welcome and at home . |
| 11 | Whereas here , you 're still very busy , but er you have the membership just on your doorstep and you can get to meet them and know them a lot closer than you would when you 're having er a large volume of people filing through your doors in the city centre . |
| 12 | Gust of warmth , beer and music rushing out to meet them and suck them in towards the bar . |
| 13 | At an ordinary time it would have been almost impossible to enter undetected , but tomorrow morning , when the Lord of Parfois brought home from France his forty knights and their followings , and the entire population of the castle came out to meet them and bring them in , then one more insignificant boy might very well slip unnoticed into the throng and get by the guard at the gate unchallenged . |
| 14 | I have to accept them and face them and then I can learn how to deal with them . |
| 15 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 16 | The ideological demand that communists should seek to improve the accommodation of the people was subordinate to the aspiration to house them in such a way as to make it easier to supervise them and mould them as the Party saw fit . |
| 17 | If females are concentrated together then it is much easier for a single male to herd them and defend them from other males . |
| 18 | But they are intended to illustrate the very general point that we can not know in advance the belief systems of the communities we are studying ; an important part of good fieldwork practice is to get to know them and take them into account at all stages of the research , up to and beyond the time of publication . |
| 19 | Such men as Joseph Crawhall of Newcastle , Andrew Tuer and Claud Lovat Fraser have striven to revive them and imitate them , with their woodcuts , their simple stories and their irresistible humour . |
| 20 | For a start , he kept losing the notes , and then , when he had managed to find them and set them out on his desk , he seemed to lack the will to start work on them . |
| 21 | The people who add value are all around us , we 've got to find them and empower them to drive the changes which will make ICI a stronger player in all its businesses . |
| 22 | The burrows of these robber wasps are usually concealed so skilfully that few other animals are able to find them and rob them . |
| 23 | When we whip cream the forces applied to the fat particles by the flowing liquid can be large enough to deform them and make them ellipsoidal ( shaped like rugby balls ) . |
| 24 | The delay was enough for Clerval to catch me and seize me from behind . |
| 25 | The Thames was flowing full and furious , the water greedily lapping their feet as if it would like to catch them and drag them under its swollen black surface . |
| 26 | The tiny parrot was a thrilling novelty , and before long every visitor to the Australian colonies was attempting to catch them and bring them back as souvenirs . |
| 27 | He is not concerned like Western man with mechanistic explanations of how things happen ; he is concerned with why afflictions befall him , how to forestall them and remove their menace … . |
| 28 | would it be possible for me to pay my half of that and the s pay the other half because I 'm not i it it 's really started to worry me and concern me a lot |
| 29 | She stood at the bottom of the bed and reached out her hands to catch his and pull them forward . |
| 30 | " I thought I was going to meet you and tell you the day . |