Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them . |
| 2 | ‘ What do you want for them ? ’ |
| 3 | Any Member who visits Bishop 's Castle is quite welcome to come and browse through them . |
| 4 | It is helping the child and parent recognize the intensity of positive feeling that can exist between them and that their love is unconditional . |
| 5 | The presence of officers at groups of councillors organised on political lines raises in an acute form question of the correct relationship that should exist between them . |
| 6 | We should ask , rather , what kinds of predicates there are and whether it is possible to obliterate such logical differences as do exist between them . |
| 7 | They wanted the House of Commons to represent the opinion of the middle orders of Britain for ( as one reforming MP put in 1830 ) " there has arisen in the minds of the wealthy and enlightened middle classes of the country a conviction that there did not exist between them and the legislature a sufficient link " . |
| 8 | The former road-builder , now Field Marshal , Wade , with 6000 men , was despatched to Newcastle , prompting a notable pun by a local woman : ‘ Since we could not COPE with out present difficulties , we must WADE through them . ’ |
| 9 | They might now begin to turn their minds to the new opportunities that will arise for them , as well as for the people whom we shall seek to represent . |
| 10 | Gooch said of his batsmen : ‘ You ca n't bat for them . |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'm going to watch games , I would be of more use studying the following week 's opposition and helping prepare for them . |
| 12 | If a visitor or medical practitioner has to talk to a resident through you , make sure you consult them and do n't answer for them . |
| 13 | She could not answer for them . |
| 14 | I can not answer for them . ’ |
| 15 | Well I do n't know I mean I ca n't answer for them . |
| 16 | The tone was like a knife , severing any tenuous bond that might remain between them . |
| 17 | You ca n't think about they do n't want to be on a station come here in Newcastle . |
| 18 | Acknowledge their existence and tell yourself that you will think about them later — then let them go . |
| 19 | ( It is important to write them down , rather than merely think about them . |
| 20 | ‘ Did n't touch them — did n't even think about them . |
| 21 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 22 | " You do n't think about them , " he 'll say . |
| 23 | " You do n't think about them . |
| 24 | We can think about them , but not explain them , only know them . |
| 25 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 26 | What did you think about them ? |
| 27 | What do you think about them ? |
| 28 | I know about the drug industry , I do clinical trials , I do research for them . |
| 29 | And then they 'd throw you to whatever man happened to be passing for the money you 'd earn for them . ’ |
| 30 | But you could jump off them while they were going , so I , an |