Example sentences of "to [pers pn] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to write to them and ask them and about a month later they reply to me and I pass it on to her . |
| 2 | so you can go to them and ask them for advice and they ca n't give it , because there 's not that link back to where you know |
| 3 | And the people who run the shop are runners themselves and you can sort of go to them and ask their advice on all sorts of things |
| 4 | ‘ But Shannon , you have it in you to fight the ghosts — to face up to them and banish them forever . |
| 5 | This is all of a piece with the way some men assume they may stare at women , stand close to them and invade their physical space by touching . |
| 6 | He 's sat in there and we all listened to them and insulted them basically ! |
| 7 | GUIL : We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us , with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke , and a presumption that once our eyes watered . |
| 8 | It was suggested that some existing pensioners , who may not have drawn the sum due to them on leaving the Bank , could now claim the sum due to them and donate it to the Fund . |
| 9 | And then we wrote back to them and said we are very likely getting funding from , in which case can we use your money for other purposes er Well one reason specifically said chairs . |
| 10 | They trusted her for it ; an outlier psion could not go running to Them and reveal who hired her and for what reason . |
| 11 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 12 | Some mothers would avoid problems , distracting their child by talking to them and involving them in the shopping , while others would distract their child once they had started to be difficult . |
| 13 | Some parents , in their understandable desire to make their children happy , give in to them and let them have everything they ask for . |
| 14 | We need more space in our branches to improve the comfort and convenience for customers and to talk to them and serve them better . |
| 15 | I gave Becky to them and lowered myself into the water . |
| 16 | He spoke to them and persuaded them with his books and his paintings , through radio and television , by his speeches and his straightforward and trenchant statements to the press about the issues he believed to be so crucial for the welfare of the world . |
| 17 | Chefs like myself have referred to them and kept them at hand since they were written over 10 years ago , along with books such as Jane Grigson 's on vegetables . |
| 18 | We 'll speak to them and tell them that we know what 's happened to you . |
| 19 | You 'd want to go up to them and tell them to do better . " |
| 20 | Well that 's what I 'm saying , why do n't you use the money that Geoffrey and Jean gave you with al buy something and then you can write to them and tell them what you 've cos it 's a fortnight since your birthday , it 's time you 're writing to them they 'll think you 're a most ungrateful child if you do n't write and say thank you . |
| 21 | So when I did n't receive any further communication , I 've gone back to them and asked them whether they would be interested in reducing the price , cos we consider it to be too high for that one acre of land . |
| 22 | Parents may need to sit with their children during this learning phase to encourage them to stay seated and to talk to them and distract them with stories and play . |
| 23 | He did a really intimate show where he sat on the edge of the stage with his ankles crossed and talked to them and sang them songs . |
| 24 | The first is a moral one , that if chimpanzees are really like man they may have the same capacity to understand what is happening to them and imagine their futures , which would make laboratory studies , especially physiological interventions , unacceptable . |
| 25 | She knew enough , now , to be aware that , although Johnny could see her friends , could talk to them and touch them , he could not see her world . |
| 26 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 27 | ( v ) Fix the cells by pipetting 70% alcohol on to them and allow them to air dry . |
| 28 | They started to run meetings in the house for the wives of the clergy , where Ramsey talked theology to them and mixed it with a lot of humour . |
| 29 | But I think I 'd actually like to support that idea , I think we ought to er er write back to them and say it 's a splendid idea , erm let's have more of it and and thank you to the local government commission for s er seeing to this after a hundred years . |
| 30 | the shock , go up to them and say you know , have you had your right amount or have you taken some sugar and very often they 'll pull up and ah yes I 've overdone it . |