Example sentences of "[vb base] they [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect they wished to marry her off to an infant — so she simply succumbed ! ’ |
| 2 | The old hut 's been converted into a flower-shop , but the cabbies say they wanted to keep it for themselves . |
| 3 | Let them try to pin it on her ! |
| 4 | He says people have been to myself and I know they 've been to the doctor , crying in the surgery over there not being a burial ground , because obviously when one 's loved ones die they wish to have them buried here . |
| 5 | He says people have been to myself and I know they 've been to the doctor , crying in the surgery over there not being a burial ground , because obviously when one 's loved ones die they wish to have them buried here . |
| 6 | No , she bloody ought to after the first couple of dozen times , but anyway , when they come back and we got back at night and we started playing them and putting things on er you know they got to like it |
| 7 | And I know they got to palletize them , wrap 'em and shift 'em and everything but er as our lot more than . |
| 8 | Mm , I suppose they have to do it because of the computing erm , departments , has some equipment they want . |
| 9 | Many people who took out their fireplaces several years ago now find they want to restore them to have a real open fire or some acceptable substitute like gas logs or a gas coal effect . |
| 10 | When they have moved forwards as far as they feel they want to go they then leave one of the bottles , place both their hands on the other and have to get back without touching the the floor with any part of their body . |
| 11 | Er and but others just feel they want to do it that way , other companies . |
| 12 | Asking teams and individuals to identify the INSET they feel they need to help them to do their jobs better usually results in comment , possibly indirect , about quality of their work . |
| 13 | No , when you read the word ‘ love ’ in the Bible it means something completely different ; you do n't have to hug anyone , kiss anyone or call them Ermentrude to love them the Jesus way . |
| 14 | Yes , I think they tend to say they 're doing it for you . |
| 15 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
| 16 | They 've destroyed all my things — and I think they want to destroy me . ’ |
| 17 | Well I think they want to keep it , either there or move it somewhere |
| 18 | Though goodness knows why they think they have to do it so early in the morning . |
| 19 | I think the problem is , that at the moment sex education is so arbitrary and it varies from school to school and from house to house I think they have to make it like a core part of the curriculum , make it compulsory and make it uniform throughout the country , so everybody 's getting the same education , the same quality I think that 'll help . |
| 20 | To what extent do they appear to preclude you from making use of the skills and knowledge that you have acquired and competing with the people for whom you used to work . |
| 21 | Er , who , who why do they want to eat him ? |
| 22 | But where do they want to send them ? |
| 23 | The thought passed through my mind , ‘ Do they intend to rush me and escape ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ How do they manage to keep it up ? |
| 25 | Do they wish to have us back them in their expansion of their resorts in France ? |
| 26 | Do they try to hold it close to the eyes ? |
| 27 | How long do they take to do them ? |
| 28 | Do they have to hack them about like that ? ’ |
| 29 | Like , for instance , can they bargain with you to alter any of the exclusion clauses , or do they have to take it as it is and that 's that ? |
| 30 | What do they have to tell us ? |