Example sentences of "and [verb] they [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report examined research from the United Kingdom , the United States and Australia , and concluded that cigarette advertising is getting through to children and encouraging them to smoke and to carry on smoking . |
| 2 | What we need to do is get our members and make them feel that they 're part of Europe , not dispossessed by it , at this moment in the time there 's not a lot for them in consideration of Europe . |
| 3 | I will be able to bring what is going on here in science back to the children in the classroom , and make them realise that it is not so far away from what they are learning about . |
| 4 | He would write a book which would cause a sufficient furore to upset both his parents thoroughly and make them realize that he was a person to be reckoned with . |
| 5 | If operating the market entails transaction costs , it is even clearer that establishing it entails implementation costs , although the difficulty of identifying and quantifying them means that estimates vary widely . |
| 6 | Obviously , the first requirement in developing students ' critical abilities is to get them immersed in the disciplines they are studying , and bring them to appreciate and to respect the internal criteria of evaluation — the kinds of evidence , criteria and values that are particular to each discipline . |
| 7 | ‘ God it was awful , ’ he said , and made them laugh and accept what he said , and Barnett never asked for the certificate this time . |
| 8 | The idea of two particles so near in mass was troubling for some people and made them wonder if some misinterpretations had occurred ; in particular Patrick Blackett , another Nobel Laureate , raised a question as to whether there might be other explanations of the pion decay . |
| 9 | But the main function of the British and Russian ministers was to observe and counter each other 's activities ; it was the rivalries of these two great imperial powers which kept alive their interest in Persia and made them establish and maintain relations with it . |
| 10 | Even when American analysts admit that the USSR has access rather than base rights in Cam Ranh Bay and Danang they argue that the apparent permanency of its presence in these ports means that this access has effectively provided the USSR with its only operating military base between Vladivostok and the East coast of Africa . |
| 11 | By introducing a per capita tax , it was the government 's aim to draw every adult 's attention to exactly how much their local services were costing and to encourage them to assess whether they were receiving value for money . |
| 12 | He compiled the first useful tables of travel times of seismic phases and used them to show that wave speeds increase smoothly with depth , up to a point where they suffer a sharp decrease , which he identified with the boundary of a central core ‘ possessing radically different physical properties ’ , though he did not conclude that the core was liquid . |
| 13 | These Awards are intended to encourage schools and local agencies to work together in involving young people in sport , and keeping them involved when they leave school . |
| 14 | And of course all that is a play-off against you know keeping that franchisee er involved and keeping them feeling that they can still make a profit . |
| 15 | Remember that harmful thoughts will hurt you and let them go as soon as you become aware of them . |
| 16 | Take them out and let them cool and then we can ice them , yeah ? |
| 17 | Erm , I think these refugees are likely to include the most enterprising , the best trained and so on , they 'll be a grave loss to the Soviet economy , erm , but I think they 're a potential gain to us and er , I do n't think that , I think therefore we should make arrangements to try and absorb them if we can and , and let them contribute as they undoubtedly will to our own economies . |
| 18 | Make them pretty sweet , and let them stand till they are cold . |
| 19 | And if one started to lust after it oneself , as much as the men — and let them see that one lusted — then what weapon had one left ? |
| 20 | we 've got to act fairly quickly so can we decide in principle whether we 're going to do this or not and let them know that we either are or we are n't . |
| 21 | The actual state of the market is that it 's flooded with property , so we have a case where supply has increased , demand is still at a fairly low level , so we 're having to be very honest with our clients , our vendors , and let them know that the situation is that their property has to be of good value in the market place . |
| 22 | Please could you fill in the form and let them know whether you will be attending . |
| 23 | Force the other party to try hard to get your attention and let them know or think that they could lose out to someone else . |
| 24 | ‘ She gave us a big jug of water and big brushes and put on blues and greens and let them run and I was away from then . |
| 25 | ‘ She gave us a big jug of water and big brushes and put on blues and greens and let them run and I was away from then . |
| 26 | You can either record this and play it back or stand in front of a friend and let them criticize and make helpful suggestions . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |
| 29 | A Reagan administration in Sacramento , the voters were led to believe , would do something about the rising tide of crime in the state , would take people off welfare and put them to work and , above all else , it would get the government off the people 's back . |
| 30 | This form of aggression , if not leading to an outright kill , can easily stress the attacked coral or anemone and cause them to bleach and eventually die . |