Example sentences of "to [pron] they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's what I 'm saying , why do n't you use the money that Geoffrey and Jean gave you with al buy something and then you can write to them and tell them what you 've cos it 's a fortnight since your birthday , it 's time you 're writing to them they 'll think you 're a most ungrateful child if you do n't write and say thank you . |
| 2 | Because any one of these two or three things that I show you is enough if it 's a surprise to them they will blow you out . |
| 3 | If you give in to them they will do it even more and they will think they have won , ’ she said . |
| 4 | And when you talk to them they will say we can find out whether they 've got a criminal record or not , how can they offer that service in the public domain without having access to your computer ? |
| 5 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 6 | One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . " |
| 7 | It seems to me they used to refer to ‘ employment for life ’ . |
| 8 | I always think that if someone tries to get close to me they must want something from me . |
| 9 | They could therefore intercede with him for the living , to whom they might appear , and for whom they might still work miracles . |
| 10 | For instance , bereaved adults experience higher than expected levels of illness in the year following the death of their spouse , and among those most at risk of lasting psychiatric problems are people without a network of friends or relatives to whom they may turn for consolation ( Parkes and Brown , 1972 ) . |
| 11 | In contrast , in this case , what is involved is not discriminatory treatment on grounds of nationality but a condition for the grant of nationality , and the member states are free to determine to whom they will grant or refuse their nationality , in the case of natural persons and ships alike . |
| 12 | The problem for the Scots this time , whatever their varying political and religious persuasions , was that there was no-one to whom they could turn as a counter-weight . |
| 13 | Where our Investigation Department operations involved shipping and small craft we were the specialists to whom they could turn for practical assistance . |
| 14 | Customers were unable to find a manager in Lockheed to whom they could take their problems and queries about their particular orders , and Lockheed found it necessary to employ ‘ project expediters ’ as customer liaison officials . |
| 15 | Not only were the subjects told of what Dement thought might be the probable results of the regime , but they were provided with a psychiatrist on duty all the time to whom they could report any unusual sensation . |
| 16 | The most vital resource for stressed professionals is at least one other person , preferably but not necessarily a colleague , to whom they can tell the truth . |
| 17 | Children must be heard , and must feel confident that they have an independent person to whom they can complain . |
| 18 | We have taken steps to draw to the attention of all children who go into a home the fact that there is a telephone number , a contact point and a named officer separate from the home to whom they can complain if they feel the need . |
| 19 | The successful companies take risks because they have Profitbosses to whom they can delegate , whom they can trust to make " risk-decisions " on their behalf . |
| 20 | Until very recently housing associations have been able to have their own policies as to whom they can house , as well as housing a certain proportion of people from the housing waiting-list as part of their financial agreement with the local authority . |
| 21 | But in the Catholic Church , unlike the Protestant churches , they at least have another woman to whom they can pray . |
| 22 | So mining companies are reluctant to waste years — and much cash on legal fees — in determining to whom they should pay royalties once they have found a deposit . |
| 23 | It turns out that like the vervets , birds will also learn to whom they should respond . |
| 24 | For example , Meyer and Schvanevelt [ 1971 ] presented subjects with pairs of letter strings , to which they would answer ’ yes ’ if both letter strings were words , otherwise responding ’ no ’ . |
| 25 | In a 1970 survey , they asked respondents to name the main social classes and the class to which they would ascribe themselves . |
| 26 | And indeed , the very extent to which they would lie readable was called in question by their range and bulk . |
| 27 | The tour was appropriately chaotic , as most rock tours are : their first taste of the twenty-four hour a day , day to day flogging to which they would have to submit in order to compete . |
| 28 | Although based on research of lasting value , the draft Articles on service of documents rest overmuch on United States perceptions and would not have survived the sort of examination to which they would have been exposed at an international diplomatic conference . |
| 29 | The major field monuments , which are better documented , almost certainly provided the foci in the landscape , around which such subsistence settlements would have been placed and to which they would have looked for some specialised goods and services . |
| 30 | Like many socialists and intellectuals educated in the traditions of the high establishment , he fussed about the education of his own children and about the schools to which they might go . |