Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] they [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny natives in their feathered headdresses and skirts besported themselves on the water 's edge , far more ostentatiously than Kit knew them to do . |
| 2 | It fails for the following paradoxical reason : our judges actually pay more attention to so-called conventional sources of law like statutes and precedents than conventionalism allows them to do . |
| 3 | They alone knew where the evil gorgons were to be found and jealously protected their whereabouts until PERSEUS forced them to reveal their secret when he stole their eye . |
| 4 | They do anything to avoid choosing , and if events force them to make a choice , they question it by raking over the ashes of the decision until it is dead and cold . |
| 5 | That sort does all sorts of silly things , till experience tells them to put a sock in it . |
| 6 | She inquired at the trading standards department about the legality of catapults but was told they were sold at fishing tackle shops because anglers use them to hurl their bait into the water . |
| 7 | The male hoverfly uses these to keep the tiny female in view as he chases her during courtship , while robberflies use them to track their flying prey . |
| 8 | Experience suggests that they will only pay wages comparable with those in industry when circumstances force them to do so . |
| 9 | Educational indicators across institutions take on even greater importance within this more competitive context as parents use them to choose schools . |
| 10 | This work is grounded in the view that this kind of awareness on the part of children as writers enables them to gain a degree of control over their imagination ( see Rowland , The Enquiring Classroom , 1984 and ‘ Responding to Children 's Interests ’ , 1986 ) . |
| 11 | When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless , the building began to be demolished around their heads . |
| 12 | Their triple-engined ski boat had blocked the exit to the road and when people asked them to move it the BMW people started arguing . |
| 13 | When Jancey persuaded them to sit in next door , none of them were too sure how heavy these guys would turn out to be . |