Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one time er I 'd been er I were wounded and I 'd come out of er they bring you to casual clearly stations , thousands got into one I in this ward er tents and best way they could you know and nurses there and all . |
| 2 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |
| 3 | They take them to museums ; they give them cars to drive around town ; they introduce them to everyone worth knowing in Texas . |
| 4 | They 'll do anything to make you dependent on them , and then they drag you to the altar and call it love . ’ |
| 5 | Since some people regard them as the ultimate madness and evil they deem it to be their moral right to break laws , mostly in a non-violent manner , as a form of protest . |
| 6 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
| 7 | From this , we will not be excluded , but will in turn exclude them , including some of those who might find themselves in the terrain of our state because their being on our state threatens the unity of our state , just as they perceive us to be a threat to their unity , and so on and so on . |
| 8 | At the moment she is going along with their wishes , wearing what they want her to and keeping her hair shoulder-length , but she feels extremely frustrated and isolated , and ca n't wait to leave home . |
| 9 | That 's what they want me to be — some crummy clerk with painted fingernails number-crunching on a computer all day . |
| 10 | What the sponsor wants we try to see he gets , and that 's why a great deal of my time is spent being seen where they want me to be seen , like tonight 's cocktail party . |
| 11 | They want me to . |
| 12 | ‘ Some women want the man to be the boss , they want him to be Daddy . |
| 13 | They want them to be called Zimbabwe Ridgbacks . |
| 14 | Some people try to force their partner to be the person they want them to be . |
| 15 | But they want them to be more explicit , a survey by Channel 4 's Check Out show reveals today . |
| 16 | They want them to be more responsible , more self-determining , to take matters into their own hands , and yet they oppose the only thing the tenants have of their own — organisation . |
| 17 | They want them to be more answerable to public opinion . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps they want you to be King , too , without me , ’ I said quietly . |
| 19 | Anything they want you to be you 'll be you know . |
| 20 | So she said dad 's got to go straight down now for emergency surgery , come on then , for emergency surgery and they want you to be there before he goes , oh christ perhaps I 'm |
| 21 | When it does n't come out the way they want it to , that is when they get most hurt I think … |
| 22 | And it depends on what they want if they want it to three decimal places with this |
| 23 | Because they want to sell that , but they want it to be sort of like half private |
| 24 | They want us to be ourselves and they themselves and to meet as friends … only after some quiet times with a dolphin do we enjoy letting it be in charge of the encounter , and see what it may decide to do next with us . ' |
| 25 | ‘ That 's what they want us to be . |
| 26 | Its early days but they expect him to be in hospital for about two months . |
| 27 | I visited the local Oxfordshire set ups , that 's Williams , Benneton and Leyton House in the last couple of weeks , and all of them say ‘ Eddy 's got a good car , a good chassis , a good engine and he 's got good finance ’ , and they expect him to be right up there with the big names from the start . |
| 28 | what they expect them to be |
| 29 | Or am I simply what they expect me to be ? |
| 30 | And they expect me to co be coming in from here , |