Example sentences of "[verb] they [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what they ca n't stand is that I hate them when they do n't behave in their own way . |
| 2 | Try to make time to see them if they come calling later in the day . |
| 3 | Try to make time to see them if they come calling later in the day . |
| 4 | Try to make time to see them if they come calling later in the day . |
| 5 | Twice he 'd lost sight of them and been obliged to put on speed or else run the risk of failing to see them as they took some minor road or turn-off . |
| 6 | In a country of 17 million people , around one million actually travelled to see them as they journeyed from city to city . |
| 7 | He likes to admire pretty girls and will seldom harm them , sitting on a rock in the centre of the river to see them as they punt past . |
| 8 | But once they had left the house , and were at last too far away to hear her aunt 's and uncle 's farewells , or to see them as they stood outside in the yard , silhouetted against the lighted kitchen , excitement began to creep into Ruth and her spirits began to lift . |
| 9 | Evidently I did not see fighters go down that day but I know they did but this was a first realization as if there was somebody up there to kill me and I guess this is the point at which you realize that you are going to kill them before they kill you and all of a sudden we are in combat all our lives and we take a complete change in outlook from everything because up to now everything had been practise and training just for this except we did not have that realization that they are there to kill us , who 's gon na be killed first ? |
| 10 | Another boy declared : ‘ We have to kill them before they kill us . ’ |
| 11 | Fred returns to haunt the nightmares of teenagers and to kill them while they sleep and dream . |
| 12 | Yesterday , Dr Colin Campbell , of Horticulture Research International 's experimental station at East Malling , Kent , said his team had found a way of predicting the migration patterns of harmful aphids and could lay on ambushes to kill them when they arrived . |
| 13 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 14 | A little crowd was encouraging them while they performed what somebody told me was a tango . |
| 15 | Manningham , a burly fifty-year-old with an aggressive manner and a paunch , met them as they descended the far side of the bridge . |
| 16 | We like people who remind us of ourselves , and we understand and trust them since they reinforce our self-image . |
| 17 | In South Africa , ants visiting Ficus sur to tend homopterans deter parasitoids of the figs , thus enhancing pollination success , but some ants feed on arriving pollinators , while some birds eat them as they emerge . |
| 18 | Through an emissary , they threatened that if they had to withdraw — which was now inevitable — and the partisans attacked them as they retreated , the cities of Bologna , Reggio Emilia , Parma and Piacenza would be destroyed . |
| 19 | She jumped round the room with a newspaper club and splattered them when they settled . |
| 20 | According to Mr. Mahmoud , he admitted them because they pretended to have come on behalf of the insurers . |
| 21 | She summoned the Protestant preachers to come to Stirling on 10 May , and outlawed them when they refused . |
| 22 | The computer industry has only recently realised that , on the whole , ordinary people do not like computers and are only comfortable using them when they do not know they are doing so . |
| 23 | At the same time , he took great trouble over the team 's welfare , even to the extent of helping them when they signed their contracts . |
| 24 | I would birch them like they do on the Isle of Man , and not give them time off for good behaviour . |
| 25 | They will scratch at scabs , pick them until they bleed . |
| 26 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 27 | Sometimes parents fail to give the true reason why something upsets them because they think the youngster is not old enough to know about such things . |
| 28 | Slave masters strode through the crowds of men and women whipping them if they slowed down or showed any interest in the travellers . |
| 29 | Grunte then asked them whether they had heard the one about the Norwegian woman who had bought her son three shoes , having been told he had grown a foot ; a sally which was met by universal groans . |
| 30 | When Model returned with his wife and children , Constable Bedford asked them if they wished to pay the fixed penalty immediately . |