Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] they [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a general level the answer is easy ; it is because their families are unable to look after them , control them or because they cause them to be ‘ at risk ’ . |
| 2 | Members of the political élite may give a president their support out of friendship or because they find him to be a likeable person . |
| 3 | B. Hunslett claims the Service Crew were the first élitist group to travel the country with the casual look , and that they brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 4 | And if they tell her to bed down in a flea-pit , that 's what she 'll do . |
| 5 | And if they ask you to it probably means they 're in trouble anyway . |
| 6 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 7 | And if they took him to hospital he 'd just do the same thing again and again , until his family gave in . |
| 8 | And if they wanted him to be boring then that would be the performance that he would offer . |
| 9 | And while they force you to be what you do not want to be , they are also teaching you how to be parents . |
| 10 | It is not that such people are necessarily ‘ inadequate ’ , but that they feel themselves to be inadequate . |
| 11 | But my strongest surviving impression is of a large team of teachers , several of them coming specifically to Banbury to undertake this work and now scattered in headships across the country , determined to carry change through — not because it was imposed by politicians or bureaucrats , but because they believed it to be right and wanted it to work well . |
| 12 | I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes . |
| 13 | Painting was to become intellectual , and the painters would depict the world not as they saw it , but as they knew it to be . |