Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a further submission that they failed to have regard to the mother changing her mind about having R. adopted . |
| 2 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 3 | On economic issues , they agreed to limit profit to 50 per cent to restrain price rises under the prevailing conditions of producers ' monopolies . |
| 4 | On Christmas day they stopped sending aid to the country , because he had taken over its government yet again . |
| 5 | Being aware of the ( external ) divergence between these cultures and ‘ mainstream ’ culture , they are anxious to avoid imposing what they call ‘ crude mainstream stereotypes ’ on to the interpretation of these internal systems : they want to get access to what the patterns of behaviour mean internally and how these are perceived by in-group members . |
| 6 | Most of the children want the railway and are prepared to help with the survey , but a few want things to remain as they are , and they want to organise resistance to the coming of the railway . |
| 7 | They provide breathing gas to the helmet , communications wires , the hot water hose ( this must not be used in air diving ) , a phunumofathometer ( used to obtain the divers ' depth ) , closed circuit television and light cables , and for mixed gas bell diving — a gas reclaim hose . |
| 8 | They have envied the power which violence has seemed to confer on the republican community , and they hope to draw attention to their alienation , too . |
| 9 | But surely not as furious as he would have been afterwards , if they 'd given way to the temptations of their flesh ? |
| 10 | She had n't told Julie about her hopes for a reconciliation with Ross — nor , of course , about the fact that they 'd made love to each other . |
| 11 | They seem to lay claim to being purely of the mind 's eye , a manifestation of pure objectivity . |
| 12 | Indeed , his examples repay study since they seem to run counter to traditional interpretations which concentrate upon his theoretical comments . |
| 13 | They decided to go north to Thorpe Old Manor and spend Christmas as if they had as few cares as they now had pence . |
| 14 | T. B. Panabokke , when Police Magistrate at Matale , was also suspicious : ‘ The usual evidence was that so-and-so lost his animal and that two or three people at different places , when they went to turn water to their fields , met the accused driving the animals away . |
| 15 | But that was not how they saw themselves : by asserting the importance of lineage and kinship , and contrasting it with the ideology of their state , they thought to claim attachment to eternal values of universal worth . |
| 16 | Now I do n't know whether they actually broke the door down in the end , but they did gain entrance to a flat very near us , erm and they had dogs with them that night . |
| 17 | Because the insulating characteristics of timber-frame houses are so good they do give rise to the problem known as ‘ interstitial condensation ’ , as was revealed in the television documentary . |
| 18 | They do give weight to the judgements of the most aware , those who have educated themselves to discriminate between flavours most accurately . |
| 19 | Thus , even when they do provide employment to otherwise unemployed people , they do so primarily to unregistered part-time job seekers . |
| 20 | It is in fact NACAB policy that advice workers should be able to carry out some limited counselling functions and they do run training to that end . |
| 21 | They do run counter to the views about national sovereignty held by most peoples in Europe , not just the British . |
| 22 | Coverage of all kinds can be both favourable and unfavourable — no matter whether politicians are in government or in opposition — and politicians themselves must bear the prime responsibility for ensuring that when they do get access to the media they present their own case well . |
| 23 | I suggest that in future Councillors and concentrate on engaging their brains before they start putting pen to paper |
| 24 | If they choose to have sex to Deee-Lite records , all the better . |
| 25 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 26 | They 've shown opposition to the introduction of L M S right from the start and put every obstacle possible in the way of its success , and its implementation , and yet there they were congratulating themselves on how well it was working . |
| 27 | To score runs they had to put bat to ball — a realisation which came all too late . |
| 28 | For the last hour they had done justice to Molly 's superb cooking . |
| 29 | Over two-thirds agreed that if they had caused damage to their own clothes at work , the company should not be liable for repairs . |
| 30 | And black dancers had gone in for contemporary or modern dance because they had felt ballet to be a white art form to be watched by white people . ’ |