Example sentences of "to the [noun pl] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | When appropriate , it is gently suggested to the organisers that they should themselves donate an agreed percentage of their takings to my chosen charity for the year . |
| 2 | Do n't just give them away to the adventurers if they do n't bother even to search this room ; they must make an effort to find these bizarre items and take an interest in finding out what they do . |
| 3 | They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place . |
| 4 | So Colin gave orders to the gardeners that they must all keep away from that part of the garden in future . |
| 5 | The reasons were simple : ‘ The British people are opposed to the sell-offs because they are more socially-responsible , more community-minded , more far-sighted , more patriotic than the Government that governs them . |
| 6 | Boys and girls are apprentices to the professionals as they plan and build their own playhouse in the school grounds . |
| 7 | Even now he was careful to suggest nothing more specific to the US secretary of state than the creation of some sort of Atlantic " democratic system " as a warning to the Soviets that they " could not advance further " . |
| 8 | God 's warning to the Israelites as they embarked on their conquest of the Promised Land can be applied easily to the renewal of mind which each of us should experience . |
| 9 | It is not fair to your able Headmaster and his assistants ; it is not fair to the foundation of Sir Edmond Shaa ; it is not fair to the boys that they should be taken away from the school at so early an age . " |
| 10 | ‘ I suggest to the players that they simplify the game . |
| 11 | The new plan was explained to the players when they gathered in Luton before flying out to Spain . |
| 12 | Another equally interesting way of marking the rhythmic beat occurs in Fokine 's Carnaval when Columbine dances to the semi-quavers and Harlequin to the quavers as they enter side by side . |
| 13 | Though it was shot on a strict schedule , not in the looser manner of its two predecessors , some scenes and lines were improvised or contributed by the actors ; for instance , Rhodes 's last words to the zombies as they eat his guts , ‘ Choke on ‘ em ! ’ |
| 14 | I said that the best thing he could do for the whites was to demonstrate to the blacks that they fully supported the widest possible franchise , and that if he did that he would emerge as a statesman , with a statesman 's view of his responsibilities . |
| 15 | How could people turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to the horrors that they suffered ? |
| 16 | ‘ This is perfectly sensible to the Russians because they 've had a trade in travelling shows with dolphins for some time . |
| 17 | I hung on to the drawings because they provided part of the explanation I felt was needed . |
| 18 | He trained his dogs to return to the kennels after they were sold . |
| 19 | The villagers of Ramsala , recipients of the Palm Beach dollars , explained to the cameras that they desperately needed a clinic . |
| 20 | They 'll not have been the first tourists to be fed to the sharks and they wo n't be the last . ’ |
| 21 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 22 | It is generally accepted that control systems have to be organized in parallel to the activities that they are intended to monitor . |
| 23 | Do these words mean that judges can be dismissed by the Crown only upon an Address of both Houses ( with a direction to the Houses that they are not to present an Address unless the judge has misbehaved himself ) ? |
| 24 | Under Nixon 's " revenue sharing " scheme , money was allocated to the states and they were left to spend it , with many fewer strings attached than in the " Great Society " period . |
| 25 | But it will be quite unprecedented if the full weight and majesty of the famous MCC club is thrown behind an official protest to the selectors and they will almost certainly have to consider their positions . |
| 26 | Philip had shouted to the others and they 'd all come running up . |
| 27 | He turned inquiringly to the others and they all mumbled for a while . |
| 28 | It heralded the end of the session , as Danny 's mood seemed to transmit itself to the others and they too became restless . |
| 29 | Palmer , seconded by GLEB to work with NoS , felt many people were naively attracted to the pops because they thought they were easier to do . |
| 30 | He frequently referred to the students when they were at College , and for long after , as his ‘ children ’ . |