Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll do anything to make you dependent on them , and then they drag you to the altar and call it love . ’ |
| 2 | Stab the heel and they drip the blood out onto a piece of blotting paper and it dries and they send it to the laboratory and they punch it out and they examine it and they test it . |
| 3 | Our high-rise flats were based on Scandinavian flats , but they build them to a much higher standard . |
| 4 | Just in case they hold me to a four week |
| 5 | They they deserve it to a certain extent . |
| 6 | When they put it to an expert they received the bewildering reply : ‘ Bird 's eye figure is formed as a result of local suppressions in divisions of cambial tissue that cause indentation to develop . |
| 7 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 8 | That was recommended to the employers , the employers said yes , that 's the action they would take , they put it to the trustees , the trustees agreed it and that was it . |
| 9 | Parties must not give effect to a merger before they notify it to the Commission and for three weeks thereafter . |
| 10 | They attribute it to the class differences in staying on at school and they point to the similarity in performance of working-class candidates who do take public examinations with other candidates . |
| 11 | Sometimes a gets up to thirty and then they give it to the person |
| 12 | Electric bite alarms are useful for night fishing , and many night anglers I know would not fish without them , and no matter what they tell you to the contrary they are mainly used to wake you up when you have a bite ! |
| 13 | Auto-exposure systems work by measuring the average brightness of the incoming picture , and they control it to a standard level by varying the lens iris opening and the ‘ gain ’ of the camcorder 's video amplifier . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you think the trick will work if they trace us to the Hilton ? ’ |
| 15 | The soldiers of Judas betrayed him , the soldiers arrested him , th the the the scenario works out , it all unfolds they nail him to a cross . |
| 16 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 17 | So how on earth they keep them to a schedule I do not know but I do n't want to know now . |
| 18 | So they leave it to the ones who do n't recognise degradation when they see it — I 've been a social worker , I know about these people — women too stupid and disorganised to — ‘ |
| 19 | Cos when you get your takeaway they erm they carry it to the door for you and give it to you when you get to the door , and they hand |
| 20 | They take him to the hospital . |
| 21 | They take you to the theatre if you like to pay , but nearly all the things we 've already seen . |
| 22 | Instead of lean convictions and supple value judgments , they treat us to a slick orgy of channel-hopping ( Hiltler word-bite plus Mapplethorpe sight-bite and so on ) and feed us quivering slices of deconstruction , done to a turn . |
| 23 | And then the police come and they tape him to the top of the ceiling |