Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you take er members complaints and things when you collected the dues or they had anything to pass on ? |
| 2 | It is simply the ability which a person or group has to make others do what he , she or they want them to do . |
| 3 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 4 | They do not understand the basis of the argument and they ask me to explain the Government 's position . |
| 5 | I have passed on to them the teaching and worship tapes sent on to e here and they have asked me to thank you sincerely and they ask you to continue to pray for them . |
| 6 | And yet they recognize unions and they ask you to apply your , er to yourself . |
| 7 | When he again tried to speak to her at her friend 's home where she was staying , Mary called the police and they persuaded him to leave . |
| 8 | He made no effort to move out of their way and they made none to speak . |
| 9 | He told the citizens of Clermont , and they advised him to buy the office . |
| 10 | And then she came back er , just before lunchtime I think and then they tried to , they sat Kirsty and and Claire down , and they told them to make up and talk to each other and in the end they started having a fight ! |
| 11 | I 've seen the Fire guys and they told me to ask for an Inspector Ball . |
| 12 | I went to see them as well and they told me to fill in another form . |
| 13 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 14 | I fetched the rum and they told me to go away . |
| 15 | I gave him the money and they told me to walk on and not look back because they would be following me . |
| 16 | Still they were a generous , friendly bunch and they told me to make myself at home until the editorial meeting later in the afternoon . |
| 17 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 18 | Wee boy playing with the toys out there and they told him to shut up . |
| 19 | apart from one Reverend the most Reverend Doyle or something and he saw one gunmen and he saw him fire a couple of shots and they told him to piss off out of sort of thing |
| 20 | He had used them before and they knew what to do . |
| 21 | And they chose themselves to have the ruling family to be the Al Sabar family . |
| 22 | He had learned that lesson as a child , when the others had laughed at him , and they sent him to see the school shrink . |
| 23 | As another said , ‘ Being a neighbourhood man , you get to know all the people in the area to chat to them , and they know you to talk to and that ’ ( FN 28/4/87 p. 5 ) . |
| 24 | they were on about that they ship them abroad and th , they were interviewing a lad in London he said oh , he used to get up in the morning and er go down to the phone box and phone this contact they know and he 'd tell you what cars you wanted pinching this day and they pinch them to order ! |
| 25 | ‘ And they tell you to tidy your room . |
| 26 | Yes , yes , they have er , a temporary student , and they asked him to leave us , he 's , there 's no work for him like . |
| 27 | Convena did all his work and they asked him to go to London you know , there 's some was on years ago so he goes to the headquarters and he said he just could n't believe it , he turned on him and said you 're a shallow bloody hypocrite he said ! |
| 28 | A group of friends was going to St Servan near St Malo and they asked me to join them . |
| 29 | Her first commission came about quite casually : ‘ My husband and I had gone to stay with friends and they asked me to do a charcoal drawing of their Dachshund , Rosy . |
| 30 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |