Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everywhere else , however , the late 1950s saw filmmakers of every hue turning to comedy as they struggled t to audiences and prevent their defection to television . |
| 2 | ‘ You know , I 'm getting quite used to this invisible business , ’ Mitch muttered to Maggie when they were at last settled to their table . |
| 3 | The lengthy preamble makes it clear that this Directive is a harmonisation measure requiring member states to equalise the level of protection granted to consumers when they enter into contracts with traders , businessmen or professionals . |
| 4 | ‘ All I said was I 'd like to see the factory , ’ Janice whispered to Rory as they moved to follow Hamish . |
| 5 | They walked in the beautiful gardens of the Generalife and seemed to have the place almost to themselves , and Maggie turned to Felipe as they stood and listened to the running water . |
| 6 | Maggie commented to Charlie when they were once more outside . |
| 7 | Secondly , the licensing obligations of regional electricity companies apply to power that they buy from their affiliates as well as to power that they buy from other people . |
| 8 | So we 've both got it takes me an hour and a quarter to get to Caernarfen and it takes Jan about an hour and a half to get to Leek because they 're such bad roads . |
| 9 | Roirbak said to Tammuz as they walked to the hangar where the company rotor was housed . |
| 10 | Michael Coogan of the Building Societies Association Legal Department says : ‘ The Government wants mortgage lenders to emphasise to borrowers that they think carefully before committing themselves to taking out a loan . ’ |
| 11 | Residents have every right to go to bed when they choose , not when it 's most convenient for staff . |
| 12 | The existence of the tapes came to light when they were acquired by Cable Network News , which broadcast portions of them in defiance of a court prohibition . |
| 13 | The other side 's tactics were simple : whenever outnumbered , they would run for safety , picking up whatever weapons came to hand as they went . |
| 14 | ‘ He does n't totally trust them either , ’ the Director said to Rostov as they came out into the open . |
| 15 | The fact that no one laughed out loud at this remark suggested to Charles that they did n't all share his view of the man . |
| 16 | FoE does , however , have sympathy for businesses exposed to liabilities because they have unknowingly become owners of contaminated land that they did not themselves pollute ; as a result , for example , of buying land defiled by a previous owner . |
| 17 | It was n't an April Fool 's Day joke when engineers working on WCUK 's VAT building in Liverpool announced to colleagues that they could walk on water ! |
| 18 | ‘ That congregational aspect — which is a pretty Presbyterian word and I quite like the connotation — of the emotional effect of things happening to people while they 're gathered together , that was the big thing in the early acid clubs , that feeling that you were in a place with 200 people all going the same way as you , all into being there , enjoying being in this mass of people … … |
| 19 | ‘ Where you 're concerned the Milettis got it wrong again , ’ the magistrate remarked to Zen as they stood at the door . |
| 20 | This accords with a remark Johnson made to Boswell as they drove towards Aberdeen : ‘ I might have taken the side of the savage equally , had anybody else taken the side of the shopkeeper . ’ |
| 21 | A new product knowledge training aid , introduced this month , will positively encourage staff to listen to tapes while they work . |
| 22 | ‘ Um — is that putting patients in order of priority as they come in so that you do n't leave people to bleed to death because they 're at the end of the queue ? ’ |
| 23 | " Some people go to work and they 're longing for the job to be finished so they can have a good time . |
| 24 | Many stroke and head-injured patients return to sports when they feel well enough . |
| 25 | Passing Scalpay , Johnson suggested to Boswell that they buy the island , ‘ found a good school ’ on it , and an episcopal church , ‘ and have a printing-press where he would print all the Erse that could be found ’ . |
| 26 | As a rule , even the more hardened cases respond to authority when they realise the game is up . |
| 27 | Another would sometimes go back to work er if their son or dau well mainly the sons went to university and they needed the extra money for that . |
| 28 | ‘ I should like to ask Mr Michell and Miss Bailey to c-come to t-tea if they would . |
| 29 | Some vandals came to school and they seemed pretty rough |
| 30 | That concern turned to heartbreak when they heard of his mother 's grim fate . |