Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] to them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell them I 'll speak to them as soon as I 'm free . |
| 2 | Companies which find it more difficult because it 's the centre of their existence , erm , are clearly looking at the situation , but will actually take a very long time to move to the position which you , in your particular group would like them to occupy , and I understand that , changing in I C I is rather different from changing at I B M , and er , therefore it takes longer , but I do see a a consciousness , it 's the same conscious , you 're impatient for change , quite rightly , companies of course , have to keep their employees in an earning capacity , at the same time , er , move towards the position which you would like to them to do , and it may take a long time , but I accept your point , which is with some companies , then in fact , your clearly going to get attention of some kind . |
| 3 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
| 4 | The police are very unwilling to interfere in family matters and apparently when she threatened to go to the police whatever he told her he would say to them if she did report her daughter missing convinced her it would be useless for her to take such action . |
| 5 | Having created my opposition , I had to decide what I would do to them . |
| 6 | ‘ And you know what I would say to them ! |
| 7 | ( Rip ‘ em to pieces , that 's what I 'd do to them . |
| 8 | Then , walking back to the car , I started rehearsing what I 'd say to them , almost as if I were concocting my story . |
| 9 | Erm they 're being much stricter about what you can do to them . |
| 10 | So they gave me minute instructions ( enclosed , along with the much-travelled draft , in the foreign-desk-clerk 's handwriting ) about what you should say to them if you can be persuaded to try them again . |
| 11 | Wherever we operate , we place great emphasis on talking to our community partners about what they expect of us and what we can contribute to them . |
| 12 | If a composer remembers to keep this audience entertained , think what he can say to them all at the same time . |
| 13 | He had spoken without thinking , and presently realised what it would mean to them both . |
| 14 | He wondered if there was anything he should say to them , if there was anything they could possibly understand . |