Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] and [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | As people adopt wilder and wilder attempts to keep the bad feelings down , so it is ever more likely that these feelings will bounce up and hit them even harder in return . |
| 2 | Then she 'd jump out and scare them to death ! |
| 3 | The sea roared like a pride of hungry lions , thudding against the side of the ship like a thousand battering-rams , so that it seemed that at any moment it must break through and drown them all . |
| 4 | I 'd send out and help them if it would n't spoil everything . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ John and I would trundle up and wind them up . ’ |
| 6 | As it did so , the other two Tree Spirits did the same , the branches of the Larch reaching forward , until Fenella could lean over and grasp them . |
| 7 | Ellwood 's technique was to let them stay about five vehicles ahead , but now and then he 'd drop back and let them fall out of sight . |
| 8 | Why should we join in and help them to unite against us ? |
| 9 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 10 | I 'll go down and show them tomorrow . |
| 11 | Let's go down and see them move off " |
| 12 | I 've got ta go down and see them anyway . |
| 13 | Like you , I used to be overcome with shyness and would hover outside a roomful of people rather than go in and meet them . |
| 14 | We do n't just go in and teach them . |
| 15 | Well there 'd be a squad of riveters would go in and put them in before a tank was tested . |
| 16 | used to meet there and go in and see them |
| 17 | Yes we were gon na go in and see them were n't we ? |
| 18 | Well I 'll go in and see them and sort it out . |
| 19 | ‘ Will you go along and tell them , now ? |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps I 'd better go along and see them , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |
| 22 | Loretta did n't dare go over and examine them . |
| 23 | Let's go over and check them out . ’ |
| 24 | I 'll walk through and tell them what 's happening . |
| 25 | And whatever each one chose I would go off and tell them the loveliest sort of |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll scurry up and get them straight away . ’ |
| 27 | We ca n't stand up and lecture them on self-reliance and personal responsibility and then wade in and take over as soon as they show signs of doing what we want . |
| 28 | How many times shall I stand up and lecture them about Highfield , I do n't know . |
| 29 | NOBODY , but nobody , can stand up and say they gave Mike Tyson a fight twice … and survived . |
| 30 | Well you can go up and ask them ? |