Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She wanted them to go on being friends — if this cold formality was friendship — because anything was better than never seeing him again . |
| 32 | Having reached the last four of the Tennents Scottish Cup , it is not beyond them to go on to beat Aberdeen or Clydebank at Tynecastle next month and pursue a piece of silverware that has not been seen in the boardroom at Easter Road since the turn of the century . |
| 33 | Only one day , but nevertheless it 's something that they will always remember and hopefully it will be just a spur for them to go on and do better things . |
| 34 | Cos I need one of them to go up . |
| 35 | He had to write a tiny snippet insisting that it was irony and the editor printed a token letter by a woman who had pointed out that if only young girls were left — and not enough of them to go round — only rich old men would have any chance of sex . |
| 36 | I have seen letters in the Financial Times complaining about the dearth of bailiffs : in the repossessionary times there are not enough of them to go round . |
| 37 | You did say was I going to the Swimming Gala on Monday and if I wanted to go along with them to go round before , at least the granny said to go round , but I said I was n't sure what I was doing . ’ |
| 38 | And sort of not wanting them to go astray . |
| 39 | These girls were the ones who were always getting put in detention , never did any homework , smoked dope at 11 and started having sex at 14 — shoplifting was just another phase for them to go through . ’ |
| 40 | This sets out the draft proposals and erm will after this meeting go to all members of the Council for them to go through with a toothcomb as well as you . |
| 41 | The Labour party is telling those investors that they are not welcome here and encouraging them to go elsewhere . |
| 42 | They were terrified out of their wits when the supposedly dead owner appeared through the gate in the wall and shouted at them to go away . |
| 43 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 44 | You 'd try to get rid of them , tell them to go away — until eventually you had to do something — could n't ignore it . |
| 45 | You 'd try to get rid of them , tell them to go away — until eventually you had to do something — could n't ignore it . |
| 46 | Yet others say that the dependant refused to allow them to go away and would not receive help from another source while the carer was receiving treatment . |
| 47 | Many elderly people do this each year if it is not suitable for them to go away with their family , and they understand the need those who are caring for them have for a complete break . |
| 48 | ‘ Ca n't you ask them to go away ? ’ |
| 49 | Even the more sophisticated tracts , which would have been beyond the comprehension of those on the margins of literacy and were unsuitable for reading aloud , could have had a wider impact than their style might suggest , since their purpose was to furnish people who could read them with arguments which would enable them to go away and convince others of the merits of their party 's cause . |
| 50 | How d' you c how d' you persuade them to go away ? |
| 51 | Erm , because if , if interruptions are coming from the people who work for you , you can , you know , nicely tell them to go away and get on with it , but if they 're coming from the boss , and bosses are sensitive soles , so it 's difficult to actually say to the boss , boss you 're wasting a lot of my time , go away . |
| 52 | And he goes , er I 'm not sure ah , and he nearly let us in there and then but he had to go and see somebody else and he said tell them to go away ! |
| 53 | There is , everybody has to acknowledge that there is a difference in the interpretation of what constitutes justice and one only has to see er , the sorts of attitude that are put across by certain judges , as to , erm , rape cases , and abuse cases , and how they , the press would have us believe , pat people over the head and tell them to go away and not do it again . |
| 54 | But Cecil , putting his prestige on the line , and buoyed up by favourable results in a number of local newspaper polls , persuaded them to go ahead . |
| 55 | Do we want them to go ahead without us . |
| 56 | There was an Inn at the village where travellers stayed until there were enough of them to go forward in confidence . |
| 57 | He was too wise and experienced a horseman to attempt to force them to go forward : instead he turned them short and proceeded to plough another stetch . |
| 58 | Instructors should test every student before allowing them to go solo to make quite sure that they are not seriously affected by reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 59 | They just tell them to go out an' get more money , do n't they ? |
| 60 | The Unions tell them to go out an' get more money an' ITV an' the papers tell them what to spend it on so the disease is always covered up . |