Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because customers choose to come to them when they visit branches , they have a higher hit-rate . |
| 2 | I think , I , I personally , I think everyone 's got to work to it until they find it does n't work . |
| 3 | In all instances it is important for services to offer choice — some people need individual counselling or family work ; others merely want to talk to someone when they get desperate or need practical advice but are not yet ready to contemplate altering their habits . |
| 4 | I always reckon it 's tremendously flattering that viewers want to talk to you when they meet you in the street . |
| 5 | We now reach the impossible position where if somebody goes to appeal against us and they win , they can claim costs against us , and we actually have that now , we 've got fairly large sums of cost hanging against the council , so if I 'd like to ask Les to erm I 'd like to have his support for stronger planning laws , then we could do the things that he says we ought to do . |
| 6 | Who 's going to look after them when they fall flat on their face and come whining , that 's what I want to know ? |
| 7 | to look after them when they get old . |
| 8 | They think I am just a burden and they want grandchildren to look after them when they get old . |
| 9 | I 've persuaded them to stick with me and they have responded superbly . ’ |
| 10 | The problem Lotus and WordPerfect face is how to persuade existing users to stick with them when they buy a better machine bundled with Windows . |
| 11 | It 's wrong for us to steal from someone who seems to be richer than we are just as it 's wrong for someone to steal from us if they think their need is greater than ours . |
| 12 | Sit as close as you can to one side of the camera and ask them to look at you as they talk . |
| 13 | ‘ What if there 's a scrap and I do have to fire at them and they return it ; for after all , as I 've said , we do n't really know whether they carry guns ; all we know is they have n't used them yet . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm not changing my tune , Councillor Wyle knows that in the past I have actually offered to go with them when they 've made erm , visits to the minister , and when he said , we we we tried , but we never got anywhere , and on various issues I 've said , well perhaps if we got us an all party delegation , at least we could have done no worse . |
| 15 | And I wanted napkins to go with it and they do n't have the napkins . |
| 16 | The best remedy to all such difficulties is not to harbour grievances silently but to raise the problems as they arise and to deal with them before they get out of control . |
| 17 | ‘ We have to deal with them when they get disruptive , violent , angry . |
| 18 | It is hard for foster parents to cope with very demanding and disturbed children and no less hard to part with them once they have learnt to love them . |
| 19 | I think by and large they 're probably running away and do n't want to have much to do with him and they do n't like these people , probably , who use your drop in centre because they might smell a little bit and they might be down at heel and they 're not really people who are going to contribute much to the lives of those other people who are trying to get on and make things better for themselves . |
| 20 | ‘ The Chief Constable was able to divulge to me that they think Gray was killed last Thursday night . |
| 21 | He is by no means as feeble as he appears , and the Homunculi will appear from area 65 to fight with him if they have not already been destroyed . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ Ronny unsettles defenders because he is prepared to run at them and they do n't like that . |
| 23 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |
| 24 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 25 | Make copies and circulate them amongst your friends and family , asking them to check with you before they make their choice — to avoid duplication . |
| 26 | about people to think to them after they 've been because it 's so stressful . |
| 27 | If a man engages skilled advisors to act for him and they mistake the time limit and present it too late he is out . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's something in that , ’ Hari agreed , ‘ but , for the moment , I have to concentrate on the ladies ’ shoes so that they are ready for the people from the theatre to take with them when they move on to Somerset . ’ |
| 29 | Enabling self-expression allows counsellees to explain to us where they stand at the present time . |