Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | they got to take them to Court and ask the off the questions officially under oath , there 's no good getting 'em together like that |
| 2 | They agreed to shorten it to ‘ Other Scenes ’ . |
| 3 | Under the act the holder of information has to disclose the type of information they hold , where they 've got it from , and who they intend to disclose it to . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | see they 've got it to for a fortnight which you do n't get paid . |
| 6 | They want to get away ; they want to forget about politics ; they want to reintroduce themselves to their families . |
| 7 | Now they want to invite us to a football match at the next sales conference at Brighton in January . |
| 8 | They want to bend me to their will like a factory machine , so they can scrap me when I wear out . |
| 9 | They say who they want to send it to , add a few notes , send it off and are dropped straight back into the spreadsheet . ’ |
| 10 | They want to commit themselves to a single currency and to deny a future Parliament or Government the power to make a vital decision . |
| 11 | Fleischmann 's entry reports ‘ music , cooking , skiing , walking ’ — nothing very remarkable here perhaps , but they helped to bring him to the most intense period of his scientific career . |
| 12 | They tried to give us to our ancient enemies in 1912 , 1974 , 1985 and now we 've had the ‘ Brooke initiative ’ which was another attempt by Westminster to be rid of us . |
| 13 | They tried to get him to America you see . |
| 14 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 15 | But in the 1950s the first wave of modern consumerism transformed people 's lifestyles so that they came to expect it to be right and natural that they should have consumer durables ( and increasingly non-durable goods ) . |
| 16 | Car dealers say the world 's fastest production car may not prove to be the sellout they 'd expected it to be . |
| 17 | She 'd aroused suspicion in some member of the staff and they 'd reported her to Brückner 's widow . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If they 'd glued him to my back he could n't have slept |
| 20 | If they happened to attach themselves to an old woman who lived by herself , they were risking a savage death as a witch 's familiar . |
| 21 | The top management did n't bother about that , they know left it to the local you see . |
| 22 | How could they have allowed themselves to be consumed ? |
| 23 | alcoholic they abilitating teaching them to , to live again and , and getting into the community , helping them to shop and you know helping them to be self sufficient . |
| 24 | Unfortunately appearances has been misleading and heavy filling was found as they started to take it to bits . |
| 25 | The bear outgrew the hut very quickly , and when it got to about 23 stone they decided to give it to London Zoo . |
| 26 | And they , they , sort of the panel met , and they decided to give it to her , because hers was the nearest to a result . |
| 27 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 28 | This left my father 's parents badly off , but they managed to send him to Oxford , where he studied medicine . |
| 29 | If the military regimes of the Interregnum were prepared within reason to allow lay men and women to be godly in whichever way seemed most appropriate to them , they did expect them to be godly in some way . |
| 30 | But , headed by a ferociously fearless lad called Craig Dorgan on the wing , they did tackle themselves to a near standstill besides losing nothing in fitness . |