Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm able to hit them because they 're trying to get me . |
| 2 | They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round . |
| 3 | ‘ It will tell them enough to alert them if they 're working for the British Government . ’ |
| 4 | There is then no longer them and us , for the mind has expanded to include them and us in one larger us . |
| 5 | What I 'm trying to say is that while I do n't really like the shape and some of the other features on this guitar at all , and would certainly not choose to include them if I were designing an instrument for myself , it should n't matter . |
| 6 | certainly , and my Lord my problem is I 'd liked to see them before I cross-examine Mr the er , the next witness cos he , he was the the officer in charge of brochures , er I do n't know whether the defendants can get , the plaintiffs can get them before but er , I mention it now , the second application my Lord , er your Lordship recalls that Mr evidence is at a meeting of , he brought up his concerns about the accuracy of the inflation sentence in the brochure and a board meeting in , no board meeting to that effect has been disclosed |
| 7 | Jack would love to see them but I 'm not letting him . |
| 8 | Few scholars have been allowed to see them since they were discovered but now they are being examined , one phrase is causing a heated arguement . |
| 9 | The animals may be there but it may not be easy to see them because they are too small ; therefore use the microscope ( Chapter 5 ) . |
| 10 | They went to see my husband in hospital and asked him to see them when he came out . |
| 11 | I used to see them when it was the custom for young folk to gather at Cotherstone village at weekends , to chat and meet their friends . |
| 12 | Try to make time to see them if they come calling later in the day . |
| 13 | Try to make time to see them if they come calling later in the day . |
| 14 | Try to make time to see them if they come calling later in the day . |
| 15 | They ( Barber ) asked me to come to see them if I was ever in Cornwall . |
| 16 | He 's aware of concern expressed by Parish Council and he 's going to see them and he will be very happy to come and er speak to us and answer any questions that we wish him to , so I advised him to contact the clerk to make arrangements . |
| 17 | Winter is the best time to see them as they can get quite overgrown in summer . |
| 18 | He likes to admire pretty girls and will seldom harm them , sitting on a rock in the centre of the river to see them as they punt past . |
| 19 | But once they had left the house , and were at last too far away to hear her aunt 's and uncle 's farewells , or to see them as they stood outside in the yard , silhouetted against the lighted kitchen , excitement began to creep into Ruth and her spirits began to lift . |
| 20 | In a country of 17 million people , around one million actually travelled to see them as they journeyed from city to city . |
| 21 | Twice he 'd lost sight of them and been obliged to put on speed or else run the risk of failing to see them as they took some minor road or turn-off . |
| 22 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not surprised to see them where they are . |
| 24 | Evidently I did not see fighters go down that day but I know they did but this was a first realization as if there was somebody up there to kill me and I guess this is the point at which you realize that you are going to kill them before they kill you and all of a sudden we are in combat all our lives and we take a complete change in outlook from everything because up to now everything had been practise and training just for this except we did not have that realization that they are there to kill us , who 's gon na be killed first ? |
| 25 | Another boy declared : ‘ We have to kill them before they kill us . ’ |
| 26 | Fred returns to haunt the nightmares of teenagers and to kill them while they sleep and dream . |
| 27 | Yesterday , Dr Colin Campbell , of Horticulture Research International 's experimental station at East Malling , Kent , said his team had found a way of predicting the migration patterns of harmful aphids and could lay on ambushes to kill them when they arrived . |
| 28 | For centuries he has been looked upon as a sex maniac whose only interest in kittens is to kill them if he gets half a chance . |
| 29 | We should be talking with them and going out of our way to assure them that we do not wish to engage in a price war . |
| 30 | Often , the counsellor will need to assure them that it is acceptable for them to grieve over their loneliness , their losses and bereavements , and to explore their feelings about life generally . |