Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October he summoned to Amman the local notables favourable to his rule , where they asked him to put all Arab-occupied Palestine under his protection . |
| 2 | ‘ I said before , I wo n't go where they want me to go . |
| 3 | Both , in tandem , have transformed who does what and where they do it to create the wealth governments now seek . |
| 4 | The gunner of the Fox gave me the final two fingers and I knew the third finger was coming up which meant the " K " gun would be right in my starboard earhole , I put my finger lip and gave the impression I was going to land , whereupon all the Foxes — by this time four or live of them — were given a signal by the leader , and they all turned on their backs and headed where they wanted me to follow . |
| 5 | It is simply the ability which a person or group has to make others do what he , she or they want them to do . |
| 6 | Victoria and Kay were so impressed with her rapport with the children that they asked her to work in the morning as well . |
| 7 | They had declared at his accession , they had repeated often since , that they desired him to reign upon the selfsame terms as his predecessors ; and yet they made him aware , whenever it was needful to ask for a grant of money , that in fact he stood upon ground subtly changed , and must ask as a favour what had been Richard 's unquestioned right . |
| 8 | I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins . |
| 9 | Since then Jim who manages the project engineer course , has spoken to Trevor , and also since then we 've had er contact from Regional Railways our major client , who have actually said that they require us to have this expertise . |
| 10 | These passions are disinterested , in the sense that they excite me to help or harm you as in yourself attractive or repulsive to me , irrespective of further advantage to myself ; they treat you not as means but as end , if only as a negative end . |
| 11 | You will see that we intend sending a leaflet to each member with the summer edition of Rural Wales , with the plea that they use it to recruit at least one new member . |
| 12 | ‘ The only problem is that they taught me to swear like a trooper . ’ |
| 13 | The value of concepts and cognitive structures is that they enable us to classify events and to make judgments and ( unlike repertoires of behaviours and lists of facts ) enable us to solve new problems . |
| 14 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 15 | The other aspect of theories is that they enable us to make generalizations . |
| 16 | And if some of the material in the book seems occasionally to verge on the utopian , it is worth reminding ourselves that , as Jan Montefiore says in Feminism and Poetry , ‘ the value of utopias is that they enable us to imagine possibilities of difference for the brute contingent world ’ . |
| 17 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 18 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 19 | Then word came that they wanted me to do a test ! |
| 20 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |
| 21 | It was whispered that they wanted him to speak . |
| 22 | They have given each guest a limited-edition Disney sweatshirt and insisted that they wear it to gain entry to the gala performance . |
| 23 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 24 | I can remember him saying , as we walked down the second fairway , ‘ Willie , if I can win these people ( the gallery ? over from Jack [ Nicklaus ] so that they want me to win , I 'll win for them . ’ |
| 25 | Erm now , so he said erm that 's what they 're aiming for this thing that they want them to do on May the eighteenth plus a sponsorship walk on the sixth of June |
| 26 | ‘ Might it be , I 'm only hazarding a guess , you realize that , but might it be that they want you to get them out here again ? ’ |
| 27 | Excellent , it just store any , it stores energy , it does n't make any itself and that 's the point that they want you to make erm normal little throw away batteries that you have in your tape recorder or something , they produce energy , they do n't have energy sort of put into them , chemicals and things . |
| 28 | This is no doubt why much the commonest comment made about credit cards in the main 1979 survey ( by nearly half those questioned ) was that they encourage you to spend too much ; it was also the commonest comment made about stores accounts . |
| 29 | because they realized that they needed it to invent something to fall in to what they 've already got . |
| 30 | So devastated were they when she announced that the term was due to end last week for a long Easter break that they begged her to let them continue . |