Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to make time to see them if they come calling later in the day . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | In a country of 17 million people , around one million actually travelled to see them as they journeyed from city to city . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Another boy declared : ‘ We have to kill them before they kill us . ’ |
| 10 | Fred returns to haunt the nightmares of teenagers and to kill them while they sleep and dream . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | QP is part of WML and as such has made a covenant or promise to both the Collict and Meikle families to support them as they seek to serve the Lord out in Brazil . |
| 13 | He chose to support them as they have helped two members of his family recover from heart disease in recent years . |
| 14 | Kattina was summoned to the gangway of the houseboat to meet them before they tramped aboard like a herd of elephants . |
| 15 | He went to meet them as they scrambled from the bus , hand extended in welcome , greeting them individually by name and exchanging a few words with each one . |
| 16 | That would be selfish and thus it is necessary to encourage them as they wheel their trolleys round the glittering supermarkets , by the playing of Christmas carols . |
| 17 | ‘ And I hardly will get to know them if they think I 'm there on some different basis to themselves , ’ she had said . |
| 18 | However , my own interest , perhaps , is more in what a library , a typical library not just a university library , can do with its own computer , and most of our most of our readers , most of the people who use libraries expect to find books in those libraries and expect to find them when they want them , and our interests have been angled very much towards improving that sort of service . |
| 19 | However , my own interest , perhaps , is more in what a library , a typical library — not just a university library can do with its own computer , and most of our readers , most of the people who use libraries , expect to find books in those libraries and expect to find them when they want them , and our interests have been angled very much towards improving that sort of service . |
| 20 | A few extra nails may be all that is needed to secure them if they loose . |
| 21 | The ex-running champ sprinted like her idol Linford Christie to try to catch them after they raided her home . |
| 22 | The persons alleged to have picked up the letter then chase the accusers round the circle and try to catch them before they sit in the empty space , as in the previous game . |
| 23 | Creggan could not turn fast enough to catch them before they dropped untidily into the safety of the trees below . |
| 24 | I think it would be much more effective if the one who was meant to be the hardhat and who might be expected to let the other one drown in fact saves the other one even though he thinks his ideas about the Indians and his plan to baptise them when they get to the Orinoco are blasphemous . |
| 25 | Multiple choices are learned and any one of them can be followed — as for example incest versus outbreeding — but there is an innate predisposition to learn certain ones in preference to others , or else to choose them once they have been acquired . |
| 26 | And , despite the fact that shy little James the singer — with his Predator locks and cheeky little monkey face — is the only one that you 'd recognise in Sainsbury 's , I ( along with every red-blooded mammal in the universe ) wanted to shag them until they squealed . |
| 27 | His collected resolve in front of his officers is assuring his troops ' confidence in his controlled capacity to lead them as they prepare for an impending battle . |
| 28 | The stoma care nurse , for example , first meets patients in hospital but continues to visit them when they go home . |
| 29 | But envy is an ambivalent structure of feeling ; it involves the desire to possess certain idealized attributes of the Other and the desire to destroy them because they signify what is felt to be lacking . |
| 30 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |