Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many are taking their trade away from the main thoroughfares and into the back streets where they take people to market and bring children back from school . |
| 2 | We picked Yvonne up at the top of the slip by the RNLI shed where they sold stuff to help pay for the lifeboat . |
| 3 | ‘ E gives people a heightened sense of well-being , ’ she says , ‘ but when people go to nightclubs they ca n't actually dance all night , so they take amphetamines to overcome tiredness . ’ |
| 4 | Just as the injunctions may serve to exaggerate the feeling of powerlessness , in the face of a limited ( even if substantial ) loss of power , so they lead people to exaggerate the imagined risks of being honest . |
| 5 | Kathy said : ‘ We only opened the Centre in January and we are trying to bring clients in slowly so they have time to adjust . |
| 6 | The scientists concluded that vitamin E was the key factor , so they advise people to eat more fruit and vegetables , cereals and vitamin E-rich vegetable oils . |
| 7 | Although if they use newspapers to do it , they generally stick to the one method . |
| 8 | Nor can any athlete look forward to a long and healthy life if they use drugs to aid their performance . |
| 9 | and further , and this is not meant to be a joke , in my own experience , if they get time to think quietly and realistically , I believe a whole lot of decent Conservatives who used to think pragmatically , organically and with respect for local communities , would emerge to contribute to a coalition for the future over against the ideological block that seems to think we use people to make money , instead of making money to serve people and their communities . |
| 10 | Life was not all work and no play for women any more than for men ; even if they had chores to do at home , the women compositors — who almost by definition young and/or unmarried — had the chance to escape duty for pleasure from time to time . |
| 11 | Should there be any emergency he was to phone Dockhead police station , or they would phone him if they had reason to call . |
| 12 | Before she could comment he made the point that people did not switch off anger once they had extricated themselves from the risk of further suffering , especially not if they had leisure to reflect on injustice . |
| 13 | No other manufacturer would be so profligate in their use of fabric but the Ashleys behaved as if they had fabric to spare . |
| 14 | If they had time to have had a look er , if someone could , could take the part of Maria . |
| 15 | They warn that if they cut costs to compete they must also lower their standards . |
| 16 | ‘ If they make an impact next season great but if they need time to develop they will get it . |
| 17 | Threats of trade reprisals , even if they force Japan to give way , will not . |
| 18 | Joseph Payne , an Alex Brown & Sons would let loose a huge supply of stock onto the market and fund managers would n't stand for it — a rather naive statement since the non-executive directors would be in breach of their fiduciary duty if they allowed IBM to pay a dividend they judged it could not afford . |
| 19 | According to Mikoian himself , the USSR insisted that the Cubans buy Soviet goods if they wanted Moscow to continue purchasing their sugar , and adamantly refused to pay more than the world market price for Cuban produce ( Mikoian in Cuba ( Crosscurrents press , New York , 1960 ) , in Boughton : 1974 , p. 450 ) . |
| 20 | The whole family liked to be heard , as if they wanted people to know they were alive in a world where young and old alike were here one day and gone the next . |
| 21 | It is these pedagogical concerns that linguists must appeal to if they want teachers to listen to them , by demonstrating how linguistic concepts and knowledge can help to explain or solve them . |
| 22 | But , Valero asserted , ‘ some application users are aware that they have to make changes to their algorithms and to their way of programming if they want applications to run quicker . ’ |
| 23 | It can help some to keep track of what is going on if they have others to help them . |
| 24 | Foals who have learnt to evade bot-flies in such a way , will continue to do so as adult horses if they have access to shelter . |
| 25 | The government has authority over them only if they have reason to contribute to a scheme which benefits others . |
| 26 | To this end the police may arrest without a warrant for a breach of the peace and , as a general rule , they may enter private premises without a warrant in order to stop or prevent a breach of the peace if they have reason to suspect that this may occur . |
| 27 | to get skilled advice if they have reason to believe that their teenager may be genuinely homosexual . |
| 28 | I think that we should have been safe on the track until they got others to come with them . |
| 29 | Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has launched a new campaign against pollution by warning the directors of 14 industrial companies in Yorkshire that it will seek to prosecute them personally unless they take action to prevent their companies breaching water pollution laws . |
| 30 | The main disadvantage of this arrangement is that the cameras are looking down on those speaking from the front-benches , and , unless they take care to keep their heads up , the tops of their heads rather than their faces are exposed on the screen . |