Example sentences of "[verb] they [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made them wish to take me to see something more lovely on the island . |
| 2 | Our purpose should be to provide visitors with experiences which will enhance their knowledge , enjoyment and appreciation of the work carried out here in ways that will make them wish to support us , but not overwhelm us . |
| 3 | In other words , a facilitator is ultimately a person who helps the group bypass its defensive routines instead of helping them to learn to engage them in order to get rid of them . |
| 4 | I expect they wished to marry her off to an infant — so she simply succumbed ! ’ |
| 5 | The baby 's attention is drawn to the potty before being placed on it : the aim was to teach the babies to reach out for the potty to indicate they wanted to use it . |
| 6 | The old hut 's been converted into a flower-shop , but the cabbies say they wanted to keep it for themselves . |
| 7 | so we 've got , if we do give them work to do it 's got to be stuff which they do n't feel inadequate to do . |
| 8 | Let them try to pin it on her ! |
| 9 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 10 | He says people have been to myself and I know they 've been to the doctor , crying in the surgery over there not being a burial ground , because obviously when one 's loved ones die they wish to have them buried here . |
| 11 | He says people have been to myself and I know they 've been to the doctor , crying in the surgery over there not being a burial ground , because obviously when one 's loved ones die they wish to have them buried here . |
| 12 | He says they seem to regard it as a holiday and those birds that are over twelve months old have been through this before and seem to look forward to it |
| 13 | She says they want to spend it on recreation , holidays , books , equipment and special aids which will help them have a better life . |
| 14 | When Tim helps clients to decorate they have to accept they will not end up with a ‘ decorated ’ house in the London sense of the word . |
| 15 | Yorick and Newley ca n't confirm they tried to ring her . |
| 16 | If they are to prosper they have to find them . |
| 17 | It 's all to do with the C.O. He wanted to court-martial me , only I heard them trying to find me so I hid in the latrines and I do n't know what happened in the end . |
| 18 | No , she bloody ought to after the first couple of dozen times , but anyway , when they come back and we got back at night and we started playing them and putting things on er you know they got to like it |
| 19 | And I know they got to palletize them , wrap 'em and shift 'em and everything but er as our lot more than . |
| 20 | We 're just giving them tips to make them more relaxed . |
| 21 | Mm , I suppose they have to do it because of the computing erm , departments , has some equipment they want . |
| 22 | They decided they wanted to make me look unusual , to make me look ‘ spacey ’ , and so they cut it all off . ’ |
| 23 | Many people who took out their fireplaces several years ago now find they want to restore them to have a real open fire or some acceptable substitute like gas logs or a gas coal effect . |
| 24 | When they have moved forwards as far as they feel they want to go they then leave one of the bottles , place both their hands on the other and have to get back without touching the the floor with any part of their body . |
| 25 | Er and but others just feel they want to do it that way , other companies . |
| 26 | Asking teams and individuals to identify the INSET they feel they need to help them to do their jobs better usually results in comment , possibly indirect , about quality of their work . |
| 27 | ‘ We had a small group saying they wanted to move it back , but there was an overwhelming vote to keep it as it is , ’ said Carmel Hall , secretary of the organising committee . |
| 28 | The board saying they wanted to sell him will have made him think ‘ Why not , no point hanging round where I 'm not wanted ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't think they meant to leave them there , ’ said Owen . |
| 30 | I do n't think they meant to hurt him as much as they did . ’ |