Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This was his perfect nightmare , to be facing scabby , pock-marked men like these , who had nothing to lose if they gutted him on the spot .
2 If they do respond you may be able to see if they approach it with caution or with carelessness .
3 It 's sometimes easier for them to cope if they distance themselves from it and rebuild their lives as single parents , without telling people what they 've been through . ’
4 Taylor to resign and them to offer it to Wilko
5 And a lot of talking points for Jimmy Greaves and Tony back in the studio at half time to discuss when they rejoin us after the break with the score here at Filbert Street Leicester City one Nottingham Forest nil .
6 getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case .
7 And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles .
8 Wounded men and prisoners could still have much to fear if they found themselves at the mercy of their opponents .
9 She sighed , not wanting to add that they reminded her of her childhood home in case Mark should be hurt .
10 I do n't suppose you 're even capable of having dreams like the ones I used to have before they sent me to you .
11 Even in the third quarter , he says things will be pretty tight and a number of accounts will have to wait before they get them on their desk tops .
12 In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it .
13 There only 3 places off the bottom and the drop into the non-league world and there was just one minute to go when they saved themselves in this match .
14 The aim is to have about three suits per series — I certainly do n't want to come prancing on every week in something different , but neither do I want people to groan when they see me in the same old suit .
15 Josiah Wedgwood may have boasted his intent of " making such machines of men as can not err " but he could not nail his potters to the floor and was left to fume when they absented themselves for the local " wakes " .
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