Example sentences of "they have [verb] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The date on it used to be 1623 , but I see they 've changed it to 1610 , though I do n't agree with either of those dates . |
| 2 | see they 've got it to for a fortnight which you do n't get paid . |
| 3 | Car dealers say the world 's fastest production car may not prove to be the sellout they 'd expected it to be . |
| 4 | She 'd aroused suspicion in some member of the staff and they 'd reported her to Brückner 's widow . |
| 5 | Fortunately , Jed was going to be sleeping at Mrs Neary 's that night ; they could n't have made more noise exploring the Hall if they 'd found it to be haunted . |
| 6 | If they 'd glued him to my back he could n't have slept |
| 7 | Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like |
| 8 | They 've invited you to the wedding . ’ |
| 9 | One old man hauled into a police van declared : ‘ They 've invited us to the birthday celebrations , do n't you see ! ’ |
| 10 | And they 've converted it to two flats . |
| 11 | They 've sent him to Pentonville , es n't tha ’ right ? ’ |
| 12 | Right , they 're accusing him to be claiming to be God and they actually say they actually say their decision is that he 's guilty and should be put to death , they 've condemned him to death . |
| 13 | But she said they 've let it to people and they 've just wrecked the inside of it ! |
| 14 | ‘ They 've taken him to Queen Elizabeth Hospital with a suspected broken leg and a few cuts and bruises . |
| 15 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
| 16 | It 's crazy saying that when they 've forced us to be nomadic . |
| 17 | Accordingly , at the time of the accident the deceased was a lawful visitor on the premises , since the brewery had not given the deceased any indication that the permission they had given him to be on the premises expired at 10.30 p.m . |
| 18 | When someone discovered something , they had to explain it to the others , and this reinforced their own understanding . |
| 19 | They want to help him , and I have to remind them that he might be frightening ( that was the way they had wanted him to be ) so we 'll need to approach him very carefully . |
| 20 | The student 's friends said he was ‘ wacky ’ and ‘ into violence ’ , but until his murderous frenzy they had believed it to be entirely in his mind . |
| 21 | He was roller-coasting towards a high-rise career and now they had sent him to this stinking backwater to test further his resolve and capability . |
| 22 | The occupying Japanese forces had apparently been so terrified by the Toraja that after a few peremptory massacres they had left them to themselves . |
| 23 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 24 | Once Eric was in the car they had driven towards Soragna , then by a roundabout route to a big plantation of poplars near the right bank of the Po , where they had directed him to a well-hidden place in the middle . |
| 25 | Two of my other men came running over and they had to pin me to the ground . |
| 26 | Why should he feel that they had bred him to disappointment ? |
| 27 | FIMBRA pointed out how useful they had found it to ‘ track ’ those of their members who had other business interest in addition to their financial services companies . |
| 28 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 29 | The Shah seemed very pleased attitude was changing previously they had urged him to be a purely constitutional monarch ; now perhaps they wanted him to involve himself more in Iranian politics , He thought he must do that — otherwise there would be confusion and chaos . |
| 30 | They had meant it to be special , but at the time , it had been dreadful , and when they began to sing Happy Birthday , Jay had burst into tears and run out of the room . |