Example sentences of "to [pers pn] and [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's sat in there and we all listened to them and insulted them basically ! |
| 2 | He spoke to them and persuaded them with his books and his paintings , through radio and television , by his speeches and his straightforward and trenchant statements to the press about the issues he believed to be so crucial for the welfare of the world . |
| 3 | Chefs like myself have referred to them and kept them at hand since they were written over 10 years ago , along with books such as Jane Grigson 's on vegetables . |
| 4 | So when I did n't receive any further communication , I 've gone back to them and asked them whether they would be interested in reducing the price , cos we consider it to be too high for that one acre of land . |
| 5 | He did a really intimate show where he sat on the edge of the stage with his ankles crossed and talked to them and sang them songs . |
| 6 | These ideas were further developed by another philosopher , John Searle ( 1969 , 1975 ) , who both added to them and presented them more systematically . |
| 7 | If you 've given thought to them and excluded them , that 's fine as long as you 've made it clear . |
| 8 | But he gave much of his time to them and showered them with expensive gifts . |
| 9 | Members of staff have actually come to me and said they did n't want her in on the interviews . |
| 10 | Erm John 's Dream the National Playwright 's Network actually wrote back to me and said they 're quite happy to read your plays for a fee erm but I intend to re-write that before I put it in er for a reading erm Oh , I I sent a poem called Pleasure to Woman 's Weekly in June last year and I suspect they were actually planning to use it but they 've had a New Year 's clear-out and I got it back yesterday . |
| 11 | He turned my face to his and kissed them away — overpowering me with such a potent mixture of excitement and tenderness and yearning that I almost swooned . |
| 12 | A pack leader saw the police in hot pursuit , called six Sturmabteilungen to him and led them into the stadium . |
| 13 | Mimi did not appreciate what this meant to him and sent them away , but Jack went downstairs looking for them and signed . |