Example sentences of "[verb] they [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime all those due to appear in the FA Cup third round in the New Year have received a letter from Lancaster Gate reminding them that the FA has the power to throw them out of the competition if their players become involved in mass brawls . |
| 2 | This Christian Socialist , dedicated to equal shares and to soaking the rich ( who included his own family ) , was accepted and frostily admired as an incorruptible thorn in the nation 's conscience , forever reminding them that there was no jam today and they could only expect some tomorrow if they had earned it . |
| 3 | The director-general , Michael Checkland , once publicly reprimanded The Late Show 's producers , reminding them that most licence-fee payers had never heard of — let alone visited — the Groucho Club . |
| 4 | In magisterial style , Green dealt peremptorily with the committee 's inflexible attitude , reminding them that on every substantive issue he had fully discussed its possible implications with them . |
| 5 | She listened while Silas gave them a talk on safety measures , reminding them that if anyone fell out he must lie on his back . |
| 6 | Imagine the situation where employers are now obliged to notify employee members of that rise in contribution and also reminding them that they have the right to withdraw their authorization . |
| 7 | Cross-examined by John Griffith Williams QC , about why he did not stop for the children , he said that he was concerned not to hit them and instinctively moved away into the fast lane . |
| 8 | Thomas Buchanan had to hit them and push them to the top of the rock . |
| 9 | For non-metals if you try to hit them and beat them into sheets or if you try to stretch them you get ? |
| 10 | I 'm able to hit them because they 're trying to get me . |
| 11 | They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round . |
| 12 | He would have crushed them if he could . |
| 13 | ‘ Look there , they are startling and snorting now — you have frightened them and they will not eat before the journey . |
| 14 | It is always hard to forgive people because forgiveness is often seen as a sign of weakness and we feel vulnerable enough after we have been hurt that we tend to build a wall between ourselves and those who have offended us , rather than to have the strength to forgive them and therefore become reconciled with them . |
| 15 | Asked whether he is now used to confrontations , he said : ‘ I hate them but they seem to come my way . |
| 16 | Well we 're going to mum 's but Geoff said well I I hate them cos Bobby and Pam are going I think this year he said well if I get fed up doing that evening he said I 'll come home early . |
| 17 | But what they ca n't stand is that I hate them when they do n't behave in their own way . |
| 18 | ‘ I know that PCs call them spooks , niggers and sooties , but deep down the majority of PCs are n't really against them , although there are some who really hate them and will go out of their way to get them . |
| 19 | I was wise in my childishness even then , at the tender age of five , when most children are forever telling their parents and friends that they hate them and they wish they were dead . |
| 20 | I hate them as well . |
| 21 | They went over to greet them and gather details of the events on Sunday when they were said to have ringed the churchyard and exacted an oath against the Act from all the gentlemen in the congregation . |
| 22 | An officer on foot will often spend a whole shift without doing any police work , and without talking to anyone except to greet them and provide simple information … |
| 23 | Lizzie came from the back of the house to greet them and insisted on helping them carry in Sara 's boxes , packages and various belongings . |
| 24 | The Princesse came to greet them as soon as they were over the threshold . |
| 25 | Erm when you read it you come across strange words you know words that maybe you know you 've heard them but you would n't think of trying to write them . |
| 26 | The visitor whose footsteps he had heard circling the house that last dawn they had ever spent there , if indeed he had heard them and not , in his state of panic , imagined them — that man or woman would have had no evidence for thinking anyone lived there but for the presence of Goblander on the drive . |
| 27 | ‘ All right , well I have told you that the facts are for you ; you have seen all the witnesses in the case , you have heard them and it is for you to assess their evidence and to decide which of them you believe , if any , which of them you disbelieve , if any . |
| 28 | Chris Fry must have heard them and he did his best by knocking in number four … |
| 29 | The spring garden would not be complete without rhododendrons and azaleas , with their colourful May blooms , but try to colour coordinate them as indiscriminate splashes of red , pink and yellow can be disturbing . |
| 30 | ‘ It will tell them enough to alert them if they 're working for the British Government . ’ |