Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [conj] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so you can go to them and ask them for advice and they ca n't give it , because there 's not that link back to where you know |
| 2 | GUIL : We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us , with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke , and a presumption that once our eyes watered . |
| 3 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 4 | Some mothers would avoid problems , distracting their child by talking to them and involving them in the shopping , while others would distract their child once they had started to be difficult . |
| 5 | He spoke to them and persuaded them with his books and his paintings , through radio and television , by his speeches and his straightforward and trenchant statements to the press about the issues he believed to be so crucial for the welfare of the world . |
| 6 | Chefs like myself have referred to them and kept them at hand since they were written over 10 years ago , along with books such as Jane Grigson 's on vegetables . |
| 7 | Parents may need to sit with their children during this learning phase to encourage them to stay seated and to talk to them and distract them with stories and play . |
| 8 | ( v ) Fix the cells by pipetting 70% alcohol on to them and allow them to air dry . |
| 9 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 10 | But he gave much of his time to them and showered them with expensive gifts . |
| 11 | Pull out the magazine schemes that appeal most to you and stick them in a file ; mark the pages you like in books . |
| 12 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 13 | A pack leader saw the police in hot pursuit , called six Sturmabteilungen to him and led them into the stadium . |
| 14 | fifty pence each , right , erm , and er fill in the slips and either bring them back to us or send them off yourself to Headquarters , shall I put , I 'll put those out for anybody who feel they could sell them , it all , it all helps to raise money for Amnesty and helps to get them erm spend the money on the new prisoner 's . |