Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , there have been some very vigorous objections made by local residents , and that is particularly why the application that preceded this one was refused planning permission because er the objections they made were considered to be well founded by the Planning Committee and supported many of their views . |
| 2 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 3 | Any commission they receive is added to the money being put in the scheme or plan so benefiting the client . |
| 4 | I have suggested that they were limited in their appeal because the changes they opposed were confined to doctrinal issues . |
| 5 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 6 | ‘ They all reported to the police station they 'd been assigned to and they all went on to stand trial . ’ |
| 7 | Over his shoulder he saw the looming shape of Arthur Dooley , the main singer of the group they 'd been listening to . |
| 8 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 9 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 10 | Between er , er the best , the best end of the scale ones which I would of thought if they 'd been submitted to something like a general |
| 11 | They 'd been known to us for years as a couple of minor police informers , dabblers in espionage who never come up with anything much . ’ |
| 12 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 13 | Some of the individuals they trapped were found to be wearing rings already . |
| 14 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 15 | This occurs when individuals ' act in a way they know is destined to be hurtful to other members of the family , who , in response , reciprocate with actions they know will cause even more distress . |
| 16 | The partners remain sanguine about speculation that their tenure of the company they founded is coming to an end . |
| 17 | You know sure there were committees to manage either financial affairs , or various other bits and pieces that went on , but even then decisions they took were taken to the lodge to be voted on . |
| 18 | They wanted to give the notebook to Chris Bonington who they thought was coming to Kazakhstan in July . |
| 19 | Well it 's like all these got these of life in it , come out what 'll happen to her , the first thing they do is turn to God . |
| 20 | They 've bought up two hundred thousand tonnes of the crop … and they 've been asked to fork out for another two hundred fifty thousand tonnes . |
| 21 | Our two white heavies are too big for the straight-back chairs they 've been tied to . |
| 22 | And then , secondly t to just sort of mention the erm perhaps the more traditional ways of of working with people once they 've been sent to you by the courts . |
| 23 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 24 | Prisoners at Gloucester apparently became bored translating school textbooks — now they 've been switched to teenage adventure stories — to the delight of the pupils . |
| 25 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
| 26 | Let's see what they 've been doing to you . |
| 27 | Well , we 'd like to think that er people , once they 've been introduced to these different sorts of drinks , and become a bit more aware about different sensible levels , would actually be interested in buying them in the future and trying them out themselves . |
| 28 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 29 | When they 've been promoted to a high ranking job . |
| 30 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |