Example sentences of "they [verb] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knitting machines do n't only make jumpers , they make whatever you want them to , given a little thought and love of the craft . |
| 2 | ‘ Hope is all any of us has now , ’ said Julia carefully choosing her words to make certain that they meant what she wanted them to mean . |
| 3 | Robert Kent , owner of the six-year-old rottweilers — worth £1,000 — said : ‘ They did what we keep them to do . |
| 4 | We stand to derive immense benefits from such releases of genetically engineered organisms into the environment — providing they do what we expect them to . |
| 5 | I do n't stand any nonsense , mind you , they do what I tell them and they speak when they 're spoken to , but they know where they are with me . |
| 6 | Conservatives were delighted by the appointment as his successor of Count Viktor Panin , a reactionary whose lack of enthusiasm for discussion was reflected in the fact that he kept parrots because they said what he told them to . |
| 7 | Although the Bible 's claim for itself is that God did directly speak through men , and that he so controlled them that they said what he wanted them to say , it is clear also that the men concerned used their own minds in the process . |
| 8 | Stone produces initial sketches as ‘ discussion documents , carefully screened in order that they see what I want them to see ’ . |