Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than let their cottages become occupied by potential sitting tenants , some farmers may prefer to let them to anyone but their own employees . |
| 2 | Read the instructions supplied with the card as if there are serial and parallel ports on the card you may need to configure them as LPT2 , COM3 and COM4 if those devices are already installed . |
| 3 | The charity is still in force today , but is used for grants for students and apprentices for books and any equipment they may need to help them in their careers . |
| 4 | I should like to thank them for their outstanding contribution to BP , extending over many years . |
| 5 | When I get them , I should like to send them to you to copy ’ . ) |
| 6 | Jerry Fodor , who thrives on ‘ propositional attitudes ’ should try to deploy them in rewriting ‘ Tyger , Tyger burning bright . ’ |
| 7 | The parties should attempt to agree them in advance . |
| 8 | I took a basket of eggs into church last Sunday because I was so afraid I should forget to give them to old Mrs Baldwin on my way home . |
| 9 | But since those divisions are abolished in Christ , in experience we must aim to abolish them in practice . |
| 10 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll need to take them with me . ’ |
| 12 | THESE questions , about men who have played an innings of 300 or more , are moderately easy , and the reader might like to tackle them without a reference book , at least to begin with . |
| 13 | mm , that 's gon na be his problem , he 'll have to put 'em in kennels , no I would n't mind one , but not both |
| 14 | ‘ You 'll have to invite them into the vicarage and try and dissuade them , and then when they 're stubborn you 'll have to elaborate on the Christian concept of matrimony . ’ |
| 15 | Whether we 'll have to take them off Thursday now , put them forward to Wednesday . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll have to leave them to it . |
| 17 | Well I du n no whether I I 'm in a position to comment on that you know you 'll have to ask them about that whether you know we 've all learnt from each other really . |
| 18 | Because if that 's it , you 'll have to warn them at the hospital , you know . |
| 19 | You 'll have to buy them for your skiing trip . |
| 20 | Oh , I 'll have to ring them in the morning . |
| 21 | ‘ But you 'll have to wow them in the aisles . |
| 22 | Presumably I 'll have to transfer them to a separate tank first , but should it be planted or bare ? |
| 23 | Girls from orthodox Muslim and Sikh families feel this most strongly ; they also fear that through some misunderstanding their parents might try to withdraw them from school altogether , cutting off their lifeline to the outside world . |
| 24 | And at the end of that fifty thousand years , if that 's what it is , the populations are sufficiently different that I 'd think you 'd want to put them into a different species if — I mean how are you to know , but I mean it 's a reasonable judgement . |
| 25 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 26 | Under the scheme holders of government bonds could choose to exchange them for South Sea Company shares , and the government would pay interest on these bonds to the South Sea Company at a lower rate than it paid previously — the South Sea Company was doing much the same thing as the East India Company , providing the government with a loan at a reduced rate of interest in exchange for overseas trading privileges . |
| 27 | But if you 'd like to put them to the test , we 've put together a list as a brief explanation os some skin care jargon and products that incorporate the latest technology . |
| 28 | They were used to being the pet of the house , and so whenever I went to my uncles , both dogs never seemed to take their eyes off me and their big mouths were always gaping wide , showing long sharp teeth , and I knew fine they 'd like to sink them into me . |
| 29 | Perhaps you 'd like to exchange them for something else in my shop . |
| 30 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |