Example sentences of "they [adj] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | then we pay them forty pee to collect and return to . |
| 2 | In fact , Henry can whistle one tune which makes them all want to follow him . |
| 3 | They chatted impersonally about the dinner and how they each came to know their hosts . |
| 4 | Every part of every garment they wore was examined ; and finally , they each had to wash their hands in some special , stinging solution to ensure that they could not administer some dreadful poison to him when they shook hands . |
| 5 | They each have to do a community service : Elena visits old people and Mentor has become a lifeguard . ’ |
| 6 | Well , they each seem to do one thing well enough , but fail to realise that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time . |
| 7 | Are they likely to contribute to profit in the long term ? |
| 8 | So , they 've had to get men in , to board the windows up then if somebody else gets the house , they 've got to get these men to come and take the boards down again , then they glazier has to put the window in . |
| 9 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 10 | Marie 's got loads of friends , and they all came to say goodbye . |
| 11 | Whenever I phone them up they all pretend to have emigrated to Australia . |
| 12 | Oh dear , they all use to pull my blue leg when I was with them working , oh Old Sergeant name his name was , he was the M section , maintenance section in the Signals , M section , old , Sergeant |
| 13 | Attack ; midfield ; defence ; they all like to have a go . |
| 14 | They all try to get you both but er I have decided the other things I mean I tell Patrick and |
| 15 | They all try to achieve two simultaneous goals — success and profitability . |
| 16 | Jimmy pushed her further back , as they all continued to watch the boarded windows with breath held tight . |
| 17 | A total of 74 players took part in the second Lawrence Batley Over-80 's Championship and this time they all lived to tell the tale . |
| 18 | The aircraft was so silent , the atmosphere so eerie that as the medical team jumped from the ambulance they all began to fear the worst for the passengers inside — that they might not have survived the shock and impact of the crash landing . |
| 19 | She was kidnapped by the storm god but the other gods commanded LOKI to retrieve her , for they all began to age rapidly without her supervision . |
| 20 | Then , slowly , they all began to laugh . |
| 21 | They all knew to move slowly . |
| 22 | That sort of thing and the pigs the same , during the war , they all had to go in cen cen centralized slaughterhouses then . |
| 23 | This is part of the normal regime — they have to arrange among themselves the cleaning , etc. , and also have to do other manual jobs from time to time for example yesterday , they all had to go out and plant castor oil seeds in the campus grounds . |
| 24 | yeah no , what happen was the alarm went off in their block or something and they all had to go into a room , I do n't know |
| 25 | wha , what was gon na happen when they all had to go back to work |
| 26 | Apparently they all had to sit in a circle and put their hands on the playing board . |
| 27 | Humans , robots , cyborgs , androids and aliens : If they were serfs they all had to strip off before going through Arrivals Registration . |
| 28 | Several other people were also staying in the house , and they all had to listen to Leonard talking about the mysteries of the unseen world . |
| 29 | It was a senior event and although Hoomey at thirteen was strictly a junior , and Nutty and Jazz at fourteen were barely seniors , they all had to do a senior competition . |
| 30 | Ace knew she had to work fast , before they all had to strap in . |