Example sentences of "to [pron] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reflected in the expressions used by some members of the RUC ( ‘ OK , let's hit the streets and do it to them before they do it to us ’ , ‘ This is where the law stops and I take over , sucker ’ , the reference to probationary police as ‘ rookies ’ and to bullets as ‘ slugs ’ ) , their dress ( mirror sunglasses , blue jeans , and white T-shirt , sometimes with the Miami-Vice parallel reinforced by the words being printed on the T-shirt ) , and other ephemera ( the engraving of ‘ San Quentin' on the keys to the cells , jumping through the enquiry room window rather than using the door ) . |
| 2 | Now let's get back to them before they send a search party out looking for us . ’ |
| 3 | Reid opened the door to them before they could knock . |
| 4 | Why have SSDs achieved so little despite the massive increase in resources allocated to them since they were first established in 1971 ? |
| 5 | Consequently , rises in the level of unemployment are likely to be a source of deep anxiety to them since they believe that the unemployed are weak and amoral and therefore more likely to be criminal . |
| 6 | things that happened to them while they were making the African Queen and , they 've turned into a story . |
| 7 | The problem for these , as for other feminists , seems to be only how we can help women get to these positions , rather than what happens to them once they are there . |
| 8 | It is up to them whether they move in with Mum and Dad or set up a caravan on site until the work is finished . |
| 9 | Yes yes entrance and er no it 's up to them whether they 're just visiting |
| 10 | At the end of the season I will make a recommendation to our cricket committee , it 's up to them whether they take that , choose either or . |
| 11 | He believed that human beings were born sociable , cooperative , altruistic , nice , civilized and that if , in later life , they showed anti-social selfish , criminal erm , egoistic tendencies , it was because of what happened to them after they were born . |
| 12 | However this study is really concerned with an analysis of what happens to mature students when they enter higher education and more importantly what happens to them after they leave . |
| 13 | about people to think to them after they 've been because it 's so stressful . |
| 14 | By doing this , I think players would think twice before pulling out of Tour Events as it could mean the difference of being world number one and world number two , which I believe means a great deal more to them than they would like to admit . |
| 15 | The man who told me about them is not afraid because he can do more harm to them than they can inflict on him . ’ |
| 16 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 17 | And many of those things do have dangers attached to them but they also have , potentially , a bit of f er er fun attached |
| 18 | Often it does not occur to them that they can speak up , raise their voices in front of people . |
| 19 | McLeish thanked him , scrambled up the embankment , drawing in deep breaths , and walked carefully down the side of the track in the sizeable footsteps of his squad , explaining to them that they were looking for a sharp-edged weapon . |
| 20 | No one in their history had ever said to them that they did n't want to be famous , ’ says Gedge . |
| 21 | He then generally obliged the heirs and entrusted to them that they should give and make over to each person whatever he had left them . |
| 22 | It is of such minor significance to them that they ‘ override ’ it . |
| 23 | Sometimes they fear that the strength of their passion will so endanger relationships which are important to them that they will shut down parts in themselves from which they believe the threat comes . |
| 24 | Leaving aside any suspicion that people might tend to agree with any suggestion put to them that they should have more information , how helpful can this information be in practice ? |
| 25 | THE French love to smoke and it will come as a shock to them that they can no longer enjoy their Gauloises cigarettes in public . |
| 26 | It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master . |
| 27 | When it is pointed out to them that they have already been invited to say what they like , they become rather sheepish . |
| 28 | McKee suggests that it was important to them that they did not return to a pre-adult state of dependence upon their parents . |
| 29 | Is it just that I talk to them that they love ? |
| 30 | When it was put to them that they were taking jobs away from men , many working-class women were prepared to agree that this was " not fair " . |