Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] [subord] they " 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 | Why d' ya except to come to you when they 're say away . |
| 3 | He had this meeting on Wake Island that I described to you when they would n't get out of the planes , all attempts to persuade MacArthur to behave in a reasonable fashion . |
| 4 | He hummed to himself as they continued northwards . |
| 5 | It occurred to him as they drove that a particularly splendid piece of jewellery would n't suit her anyway . |
| 6 | I think , I , I personally , I think everyone 's got to work to it until they find it does n't work . |
| 7 | The problem for these , as for other feminists , seems to be only how we can help women get to these positions , rather than what happens to them once they are there . |
| 8 | However this study is really concerned with an analysis of what happens to mature students when they enter higher education and more importantly what happens to them after they leave . |
| 9 | I doubt very much whether they 'll be given any opportunity to voice what happens to them when they 're transferred or what happens to the fund . |
| 10 | ‘ And do you know what happens to them if they run away ? ’ |
| 11 | They enjoyed doing the shop , and wanted others to have the pleasure of listening to it as they drive in their car , or walk with their walkman . |
| 12 | ‘ It does n't matter to you if they die , anyway , does it ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They listen to you until they 're five and then they start coming home from school , telling you what the teacher says . ’ |
| 14 | After last month 's lunch , many pensioners had written to him because they were impressed by the children 's confidence and manners . |
| 15 | They came to me because they were unhappy with their agent and wanted to change to me . |
| 16 | The metaphor of war came as naturally to the lips of men who discussed their ‘ struggle for existence ’ or the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , as the metaphor of peace came to them when they described the home : ‘ the dwelling place of joy ’ , the place where ‘ the satisfied ambition of the heart rejoiced ’ , as it could never rejoice outside , since it could never be satisfied , or afford to admit itself satisfied . |
| 17 | He made as if to talk to them when they melted before his very eyes ; he could n't believe it and as the guard approached he told him what he had seen . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I always reckon it 's tremendously flattering that viewers want to talk to you when they meet you in the street . |
| 20 | What would animals say about us if they could speak , what would they do to us if they have the chance ? |
| 21 | The poor man now lay in a great fourposter bed while the two old beldames clacked and muttered to themselves as they fastened splints to his leg and carefully washed his naked , bruised body . |
| 22 | She received him alone , a privilege granted to her because they were so soon to be married . |
| 23 | A pink tinge coloured her cheeks as she remembered the things he 'd whispered to her while they 'd made love . |
| 24 | Seb remembered what Anna had said to him when they shared a haystack bed on the road back from Charwelton . |
| 25 | Two solutions might occur to ingenious engineers , indeed did occur to them when they encountered the same problem , again in the analogous case of radar . |
| 26 | things that happened to them while they were making the African Queen and , they 've turned into a story . |
| 27 | He believed that human beings were born sociable , cooperative , altruistic , nice , civilized and that if , in later life , they showed anti-social selfish , criminal erm , egoistic tendencies , it was because of what happened to them after they were born . |
| 28 | What happened to them when they got to the other end I have never dared to ask , but perhaps these few illustrations ( pages 82–83 ) will convince you that Doc Winfield actually sat in this contraption and was hooked from a completely static position by an aircraft into the air and probably ( and I never found out ) delivered to some hospital none the worse for the experiment . |
| 29 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 30 | The contention being that , as regards companies , the statute can not have been intended to apply to them if they are non-resident , one asks immediately — why not ? |