Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 2 | Their main advantages are : wood is an excellent insulator ; the windows come in an wide range of standard sizes ( and non-standard ones are easy for a joiner to make up if necessary ) ; they are , generally speaking , the cheapest type of replacement window to buy ; and you can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 3 | They move around the tank , scattering the smaller fish in all directions , although they do n't attack or harm them in any way . |
| 4 | But many hospitals have ‘ built-up ’ pockets of specialisms and she does not think that concentrating them on fewer sites would mean the loss of centres of excellence . |
| 5 | Even the DGSE might have baulked at letting them drown or shooting them in cold blood . |
| 6 | Is it not true that giving 17-year-olds fines does not work and sending them to prison is counterproductive ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The thought which came most readily was to restrict the amount of paper which each student could use and to force them to be more economical with it . |
| 11 | We should review the resources we have but do n't use and use them for mission . |
| 12 | O K , erm , and you do have to actually pay back the premiums other people would stop and start them at random . |
| 13 | Once you 've stuck your shapes and text on the page you can rotate and repeat they to your heart 's content . |
| 14 | The Dyaks of Borneo , for instance , have always referred to the orangutan as the " man of the forest " , treating him at least with the dignity accorded to neighbouring tribes , whereas the Europeans , on examining the first Tierra del Fuegans brought back to the West , could not decide whether to classify them as humans or animals . |
| 15 | In this case , the human indexer will be provided with the terms not recognized by the computer , and must decide whether to list them in the golist or the stoplist , or perhaps to leave them unlisted so that they will be output for human indexer consideration on each occurrence . |
| 16 | There is no doubt that the person entitled to goods may enter and take them from the land of the first taker if the taker himself wrongfully put them there . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose I could try and make them like me , ’ Jessamy said doubtfully . |
| 18 | And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger . |
| 19 | and she 's going round , she 's gon na try and take them to court ! |
| 20 | Tony used to come up with some quite amazing ideas and we 'd try and put them into practice . |
| 21 | You gon na try and put them in there ? |
| 22 | You do try and use them through that , and try and make them more confident in themselves , they 're you know people do accept this a lot more today , than they used to , erm and you know they need n't feel quite so self conscious . |
| 23 | Now see how many of these countries ' capital cities you can name and fit them into the grid . |
| 24 | In many cases the Archive will not own the data but will hold and distribute them on behalf of the owners . |
| 25 | So if you want to get rid of somebody you can go and tell them to peu de doci which means getting lost . |
| 26 | You stay there , I 'll go and get them for you ? |
| 27 | I 'll go and get them on him . |
| 28 | And I would like to buy two chairs for the favour room , you know chairs to sit on cos at the moment we have to always go and get them from the er cracker room . |
| 29 | It 's opened this week … local firms are out in force , so let's go and join them for our Friday Feature |
| 30 | Oh I 've just got ta go and see them at sa when they get it . |