Example sentences of "and [verb] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing poor countries produce similar commodities , and encouraging them to increase their exports has flooded the market . |
| 2 | A lead team of managers and trade union members oversees the whole programme but the emphasis is on involving employees and encouraging them to solve their own problems . |
| 3 | Introducing young people to society and encouraging them to express themselves should not create conflict , as long as there is a co-operative understanding within the family or community . |
| 4 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 5 | Instead of retaining exclusive control over classroom resources , Rick showed pupils where equipment , etc. was kept and expected them to help themselves to whatever they needed . |
| 6 | When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest . |
| 7 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 8 | I went up to the union and reported it and asked them to do something about it . |
| 9 | We asked them if they had vomited or abused laxatives and asked them to record their weight on a weekly basis . |
| 10 | She left his number with them and asked them to get him to ring , then made another drink . |
| 11 | Afterwards , when told he had best wait for his bodyguard , Caledor replied that he could expect no better bodyguards than these hunters , and asked them to accompany him on his quest to the shrine . |
| 12 | In the meantime , in order to prepare to work the system themselves , the Corporation wished to be rid of the fifteen cars that were the property of the B.E.T. , and asked them to remove them forthwith . |
| 13 | As she gaped at him he went on calmly , ‘ I told them you would be staying at the palazzo and asked them to have your luggage repacked and sent over here . ’ |
| 14 | And helping them to do it , ’ said Breeze zealously ; but Gay shook her head . |
| 15 | He set up an organisation called BSC Industry , which had the prime task of counselling redundant steel workers , retraining them and helping them to redirect their careers and , in many instances , set up their own small businesses . |
| 16 | ‘ New entrants put pressure on existing companies and make them change their existing practices , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Our technique is to make customers feel relaxed and make them feel they are buying the right car for their needs . ’ |
| 18 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 19 | The correlations with the various scales give some indication of what types of situation subjects think of as risky , particularly those which require high levels of concentration , feel stressful and make them feel they are not in control . |
| 20 | Those who have had facts imparted to them effectively will pass the tests and those who have not will fail to pass the tests , and when the lists are read out on Speech Day the incompetence of the bad fact-imparters will be revealed to the world and this will act as a goad and make them impart their facts better in future … . ’ |
| 21 | Likes to set things out and make them go you know |
| 22 | She believes some people will vote Labour to shake up the Conservatives and make them reconsider their policies . |
| 23 | Then , as the heel touches the ground , lock your ankle and shift your weight forward with the knee bent , rocking forward onto the toes and using them to push you off to the next step . |
| 24 | America 's besetting sin is its preference for acting alone , writing its own trade laws and using them to break its way into other people 's markets . |
| 25 | You want to scream out and make them stop it , and you want to cringe up your body and hide it somewhere , and there 's nowhere to hide , and the shells keep screaming down and blowing everything up all around you . |
| 26 | ‘ I shall go and make them cook me some breakfast . ’ |
| 27 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 28 | That unsettled them all and made them wonder who would be the next to go . |
| 29 | He will look for the nine natural colours found at the root which is the healthiest part of the hair and combine them to produce your personal Style Colour . |
| 30 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |