Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 2 | The larvae then migrate through the tissue of the mouth ( cheeks , tongue , and pharynx ) to the stomach , where they attach themselves to the stomach lining . |
| 3 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 4 | They felt he was bored so they took him to training classes and Tricia said he 's an absolute natural . |
| 5 | I did n't know what career I wanted which baffled the system so they sent me to Edinburgh for a year . |
| 6 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 7 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 8 | ‘ Orpheus rejected women so they tore him to pieces and threw his head into the River Hebrus . |
| 9 | Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time . |
| 10 | no , once they take you to your places that 's it they do n't take passengers back to town , they finish there |
| 11 | ‘ Do you think the trick will work if they trace us to the Hilton ? ’ |
| 12 | An educational Bill of Rights would not stand in place of students ' legal entitlements ; students would , as now , still have the right to pursue a legal claim if they felt themselves to be the victim of an in justice . |
| 13 | Despite taking home around half his £300-a-week mining wage , Martin said : ‘ I would n't go back to Silverhill now if they asked me to . |
| 14 | and you work on the computers what you 're gon na be and then it 'll be silly if they brought you to a nursery afterwards if you wanted to be |
| 15 | And if they tell her to bed down in a flea-pit , that 's what she 'll do . |
| 16 | And if they ask you to it probably means they 're in trouble anyway . |
| 17 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 18 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 19 | But even saying that , if they doubled it to two hundred pounds , it 's a lot of years before we reach four thousand pounds . |
| 20 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 21 | They would support the union if they thought it to be in their interest to do so . |
| 22 | And if they took him to hospital he 'd just do the same thing again and again , until his family gave in . |
| 23 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 24 | ‘ The few who decide to stay on board can still attend normal surgeries if they feel it to be necessary , and the likelihood of a real emergency developing in the meantime is pretty remote . |
| 25 | If they send me to Rampton , what does that make me ? ’ ’ |
| 26 | Before they started , he had warned his people on this , pointing out that if they allowed themselves to be delayed , they themselves would be in grave danger of being ridden down by their own fellows on the return charge . |
| 27 | Anyone who saw us , even if they loathed us to death , they 'd have to take notice . |
| 28 | Anyone who saw us , even if they loathed us to death , they 'd have to take notice . |
| 29 | If they extend it to seven they will deserve automatic promotion . |
| 30 | It was cheaper than the cinema , only a few pennies , and young people could sometimes get in for nothing if they attached themselves to an adult . |