Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] they to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But … if they 're family heirlooms then however much I want them , I must return them to the family where they belong , ’ she said dazedly . |
| 2 | I 'll give them to the dogs . |
| 3 | I know what I said about possessions being like leeches , but that do n't mean I 'll surrender them to a pair of punks . |
| 4 | She was about to ask him why the party had been using the OBEX pool when , as if he could read her thoughts , he said , ‘ I used to take them to the public swimming-pool in town , but it gets so crowded that some of them used to get frightened . |
| 5 | ‘ I would liken them to the Hitler Youth Movement — using intimidating tactics to try to control those who come to matches and deterring decent fans from watching us , ’ said Jobson , whose Southend side have now gone nine League matches without a win . |
| 6 | And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’ |
| 7 | One manager , who remains nameless , replied to the psychologists ' request for information thus : ‘ Please feel free to send your questionnaires to me and I will distribute them to the two or three players who can read and write and have an attention span of longer than two minutes . ’ |
| 8 | Then I will send them to the plane . |
| 9 | and then the jury , I can pass them to the jury , now then , sorry |
| 10 | We would strongly recommend that if your scales are unreliable you should banish them to the bin and invest in some new ones . |
| 11 | The officer said she believed she could link them to the offence . |
| 12 | ‘ Jeff told me you promised your parents that you 'd treat them to a holiday this autumn in celebration of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary — but that now you 're starting to worry about how you 're going to pay for it . |
| 13 | You can then move the data files that you want to keep ( having selected them with Ctrl+click ) onto a disk in drive A. Alternatively you could move them to a different subdirectory on the hard disk . |
| 14 | You could drag them to the pitch but you could n't make them perform . |
| 15 | She trotted beside Miss Honey with wild little hops and her fingers flew as if she would scatter them to the four winds and her words went off like fireworks , with terrific speed . |
| 16 | You can send them to the Link editor as soon as you like , but the final date of entry is October 30 . |
| 17 | N : The best things in life are free but you can give them to the birds and bees |
| 18 | Most train stations hire out cycles and you can return them to a different station — look out for sign Velo am Bahnhof . |
| 19 | Perhaps we should send them to the client on all |
| 20 | We should develop them to the full . |
| 21 | So I says What we can do is I 'll do an hour for you , we 'll move the piano and other bits , bicycles in this case that he had , we 'll shift them to the house close by , drop two men off , and one man 'll come and do the remainder of the work . |
| 22 | Yeah , well we will do once we 'll get them to the height we want we 'll start trimming them and they 'll bush out a bit more , that 's not bad they 're about four , four or five foot now are n't they ? |
| 23 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 24 | And erm my mother used to bake , and we used to take the clothes basket with the tins of dough ready prepared by your mother and we used to take them to the bakehouse at lunchtime , when we were coming back from our from our meal , the midday meal from home , leave them at the bakehouse and so the baker had finished his morning 's baking with his oven of his own bread you see . |
| 25 | but we used to take them to the pictures on Saturday afternoon my mum used to give me nine pence |
| 26 | ‘ Anyone with a complaint should pass them on and we will forward them to the Office of Fair Trading , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Mehu claimed : ‘ They would take them to a lake . |
| 28 | If a potential investor should assume that ‘ preference ’ means that he should prefer them to the ordinary shares he would be sorely in need of professional advice . |
| 29 | He 'll take them to the top of the stairs and make sure they know when to go on — usually by the gracious means of a prod in the back . |
| 30 | Well it 'll take 'em to the station . |