Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [conj] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The divisions are certainly latent , but the very manner in which , especially since President Muawad 's assassination , Syria has been trying to enforce the peace plan — with such haste , threats and bluster — tends to blunt rather than sharpen them . |
| 2 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 3 | These committees have issued various guidelines ( on such matters as shareholders ' pre-emption rights , employee share incentive schemes , and discounts to market price on share issues ) which they require companies to follow if the institutions they represent are to be expected to invest in and support them . |
| 4 | There were no good rules and regulations , and hospitals and insurance companies felt that they ought not to sit down and make them because , once they made them , they were admitting that these things were taking place and that such decisions were being made and were subject not only to public scrutiny but a threat of medical malpractice suits . |
| 5 | Many humbler folk , with fascinating ideas and personal stories to tell if they only dared to sit down and write them out , will be grateful for its tireless and patient tuition . |
| 6 | You feel more confident do n't you in a group situation if you know exactly what people er er know or what they do n't know , cos there 's nothing worse is n't there than to go in and thinking they may already know this , I might be going in an teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here , I 'm not sure what they know about this . |
| 7 | The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them . |
| 8 | I mind of them when I was little , fine we used to go in and see them . |
| 9 | I used to go in and help them out at Christmas because they would be three may be four or five thousand turkeys right . |
| 10 | group to go in and to spell them so they can talk to individual kids . |
| 11 | And we want you to go in and find them . ’ |
| 12 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 13 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 14 | After my lunch , I thought it better to go down and see them and to show my interest . |
| 15 | To an extent you 're your own master … you can decide what you want to do and when you want to do it … it 's not like being at work when somebody rings you up and you 've got to go down and see them or you 've got to do this and that within half an hour . |
| 16 | I think when I was n't there they used to come in and feed them and the girls all used to come round and bill and coo over them . |
| 17 | Finally he got so used to me calling that he asked me to come down and give them a hand fixing it up . |
| 18 | Cabs , you used to jump in and drive them up the road cos there were no motor cars . |
| 19 | but it 's like you see , he gives them spellings and he puts perhaps three or four wrong in twenty and they 're supposed to come home and check 'em , meanwhile he leaves them on the board for a whole week , which I think I 've told you before |
| 20 | I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days |
| 21 | Was there another car ahead , waiting to pull out and sandwich them with the Peugeot coming up behind ? |
| 22 | You want to scream out and make them stop it , and you want to cringe up your body and hide it somewhere , and there 's nowhere to hide , and the shells keep screaming down and blowing everything up all around you . |
| 23 | We really should wait for Frejji to come back and fix them . ’ |
| 24 | Mrs Patient of Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ I could n't believe that it took four of them to stand there and say they could n't do the work until after the New Year . |
| 25 | Now detectives can only hope that publicity surrounding the funeral will encourage someone to come forward and help them catch the murderer . |
| 26 | Police are appealing for witnesses to the accident to come forward and help them with their inquiries . |
| 27 | And tell her , I 've got her knickers at my house if she wants to come round and get them . |
| 28 | In these cases the practitioner often receives a telephone call from the local police asking for information regarding one of his ( or her ) clients , followed by a request to come round and see them . |
| 29 | He says yeah I 'll have to come round and see them |
| 30 | When the youngsters want to go outside and play they have to leave via the backdoor which opens on to a busy road . |