Example sentences of "they [to-vb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 2 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 3 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 4 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 5 | ‘ I told them to leave me in peace , ’ he said harshly . |
| 6 | Rather more than 20 years ago , over a lunch in Staff House , I was persuaded by three eminent lecturers of this University to allow them to nominate me for the Council of Consumers ' Association . |
| 7 | Ask them to send me in some coffee . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't mind Come Up and See Me being released ; God willing it will go high enough for them to invite me on Top Of The Pops ! |
| 9 | I had no relatives left behind for them to blackmail me into silence-that had been the biggest obstacle . |
| 10 | I need them to get me through my exams . |
| 11 | By itself it does n't prove a thing , but it 's my way of getting them to take me to Strathspeld for the funeral ; I can look McDunn in the eye and tell him the truth and he knows it 's the truth and he 'll take me . |
| 12 | And a Liverpool painter 's son , who after his father died ‘ was brought up with me grandmother ’ , calling her ‘ mother ’ , chose not to return to his real mother when she remarried and could offer him a home again : ‘ They 'd brought me up , and it would n't be fair for them to take me after from rearing me . ’ |
| 13 | Later in the evening when the place had quietened a little and the cyclists had eaten , I invited them to join me for a glass of wine . |