Example sentences of "to [pron] they [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Because any one of these two or three things that I show you is enough if it 's a surprise to them they will blow you out . |
| 3 | If you give in to them they will do it even more and they will think they have won , ’ she said . |
| 4 | And when you talk to them they will say we can find out whether they 've got a criminal record or not , how can they offer that service in the public domain without having access to your computer ? |
| 5 | I always think that if someone tries to get close to me they must want something from me . |
| 6 | Customers were unable to find a manager in Lockheed to whom they could take their problems and queries about their particular orders , and Lockheed found it necessary to employ ‘ project expediters ’ as customer liaison officials . |
| 7 | In a 1970 survey , they asked respondents to name the main social classes and the class to which they would ascribe themselves . |
| 8 | They stood on the step and waited for the taxi with black bands on their arms and suitcases in their hands , forlorn passengers from a wrecked ship , clutching a few haphazardly salvaged possessions and staring in dismay at the choppy sea to which they must commit themselves . |
| 9 | British filmmakers have always needed to face two ways , inwards towards the hopes and fears of the native audience to which they must address their pictures , and out to a broader , international public . |
| 10 | If anything , these developments strengthened the links with England : the sugar planters , just like the tobacco farmers , needed a market to which they could send their staple export product , and England was turning into a market that was always ready to absorb new products for domestic consumption or for re-export through its expanding commercial system . |
| 11 | Too many people , she said , had used AIDS as an issue to which they could add their own prejudices . |
| 12 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 13 | There are other people who only work by consensus , but once they 've agreed to something they 'll do it very effectively . |
| 14 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
| 15 | You ca n't even he probably , he , he could n't , you do n't have to it they can give you |
| 16 | The Great Lakes area , for instance , is infested with zebra mussels , which stick to anything they can get their suckers on , while certain waters in the Gulf of Mexico suffer from clinging sea grasses . |