Example sentences of "[to-vb] they go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I agreed with their political views , I could not condone the way they acted and was glad to see them go at last . |
| 2 | I have this day bid farewell to the Misses Wynne , two English ladies who have been as friends to me and I am sorry to see them go , and have taken in Miss Hawarth , an old friend of Mr Browning 's together with two other ladies who will stay until Easter . |
| 3 | And this feeling is echoed by many parents whose children have successfully left home but return to visit : ‘ It 's lovely to see them come , but it 's lovely to see them go . ’ |
| 4 | The years of slavery are in some measure paid for by the clothes and jewellery heaped upon them by the Egyptians , now only too anxious to see them go . |
| 5 | So I was not sorry to see them go . |
| 6 | Well there 's such a small saving in homes , that 's why I 'm , you know , I 'm always very loathe to see them go . |
| 7 | Betty Maxwell says she 's sad to see them go , but , quite simply , she needs the money . |
| 8 | Still , it was great to see them go back into the wild when they were old enough . ’ |
| 9 | And he gave thanks to God for the grace which had been vouchsafed to him , and said to his mother , that he did not think it good to keep the Kings in captivity , but to let them go freely ; and he set them at liberty and bade them depart . |
| 10 | When you have worked through the sensations , looked at them from all angles and asked yourself why they have entered your life and what is to be gained from them , it is important to be able to let them go . |
| 11 | Once you have experienced the full range of emotions , however , you need to be able to let them go — both for your own sake and that of the one who has died who must be allowed to continue on his ( or her ) own spiritual journey , wherever that may take him . |
| 12 | You choose whether to hold on to bitter emotions or to let them go . |
| 13 | You have been given the ability to recognise your own apprehensions , to accept them and then to let them go . |
| 14 | They knew that if you made schools and universities permanent structures , tooled beautifully in stone and designed in a timeless way to permit the flowering of reflective thought and ancient customs , that society would become attached to them and would n't want to let them go when the cutbacks came . |
| 15 | One official wrote that the missing cattle ‘ have probably been driven off some distance by some of the bolder spirits of the village , and hired out for the season to some not over-scrupulous cultivator , with instructions to let them go loose when done with . |
| 16 | Worst of all were the arbitrarily imposed ‘ delivery ’ or discharge fees which often meant innocent people spending substantial periods in prison ( having been found not guilty ) until hard-pressed relatives raised the necessary cash for release and the gaoler was prepared to let them go . |
| 17 | The Immigration man was loath to let them go , but the instructions on the register were clear . |
| 18 | When they nagged her to let them go , she conveyed to Kit he should allow it . |
| 19 | I did n't say his manipulation of the accounts were n't serious — they are — but I 'm prepared to let them go if Garry toes the line . ’ |
| 20 | We had to let them go . ’ |
| 21 | I think the important thing is not to let them go away thinking , you know , oh , why did I bother , there 's obviously no point in carrying on with it . |
| 22 | he was n't going to let them go , I mean we were n't told any of that on the news , there was n't a word of that , it only be that from the papers that we 'd got |
| 23 | It reminded me of when I used to give people money just to make them go away again . |
| 24 | After they had gone in and resumed their grind in the usual places , Rose came out to him and said gently , ‘ You were terrible , Daddy , to make them go down to the lake . ’ |
| 25 | Crushed eggshells were mixed with scouring agents to make them go further and pot scour scourers were made from old silk stockings crocheted into squares . |
| 26 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |
| 27 | The people at the table looked like beleaguered tourists in the kind of restaurants where people come and play violins in your ear , that is to say , horribly embarrassed and as if they were wondering how much it would take to make them go away . |
| 28 | Erm , just a word about the previous speaker , I 'm also involved with water meters and if he wants to know how to , how to make them go backwards , if he can speak to me afterwards I do n't have . |
| 29 | they just need a little push to make them go one way or the other so |