Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , quality of print paper down the print shop does have to be checked so they may well use as a guide but they wo n't necessarily go thorough all the cost estimates . |
| 2 | As they call out the names of the new members , I would like them to stand so they can all recognise and welcome them . |
| 3 | Her legs trembled so they would hardly carry her . |
| 4 | ‘ The result is that when these children grow up they can not cope with a relationship which demands that they show emotion or feeling . |
| 5 | They turn up to work but are so stressed out they ca n't perform , there 's no added value to the product . |
| 6 | Sometimes I would have a gull and a crow but , whether they were the same species or not , they quickly found out they could n't fly properly — though the twine was long enough in theory — and ended up ( after a few hilariously clumsy aerobatics ) fighting . |
| 7 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the writing remains as something separate from the experience and if teachers do not know how they can usefully respond to the writing as a text , then their part in helping children improve their writing is insignificant . |
| 9 | On Christmas Eve , listening to herself making yet more excuses on the telephone , explaining why they could n't make it to a family party , hearing her sister 's disappointment . |
| 10 | Yet he feared they were like biting fish in a fine mesh net , if they swam forward they would never escape ; he saw them lifting their limbs with automatic motion , as crayfish with their lumbering claws knock against the basketwork of the pens in which they have been trapped . |
| 11 | Well they ca n't do any they ca n't do anything for me I 'm an I 'm an awkward sod ! |
| 12 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 13 | I worked for a , for a like a , it 's a money brokers in , in London but exactly the same stockbroking , and it was exactly like the film , you know , they had this , they had this room , like they had one of those long rooms as well you know with all the desks and computers and stuff but they had this one enclosed off room where all the dealers sat round this massive like circular console type table , and like they were all under thirty but like overweight , all c driving Porsches and taking coke and shit like this and right they just , they got into the office at something like six in the morning like I 'd get in at nine and I 'd be , be wandering around they 'd just have their trousers open , shoes off , |
| 14 | He went on to said he wanted to talk about the hunting debate , erm , it occurred to me to wonder why they could n't find anyone in Stonygate in favour of hunting , I mean perhaps there are n't any people in Stonygate in favour of hunting . |
| 15 | And invite you she said well that 's you 're not going so they would n't get in anyway now and |
| 16 | If you ca n't plant them closer together , instead of their roots going outwards they 'll probably go downwards |
| 17 | and even if anybody saw you going down they would n't take a big deal of notice . |
| 18 | ‘ Miers could not take the German prisoners on board his sub , and if he had left them to paddle ashore they would immediately have gone back into the German forces … |
| 19 | I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone . |
| 20 | And if he did n't do that she could n't possibly see how they would ever see eye to eye . |
| 21 | I do n't see how they can definitely say anyway , this is going to take |
| 22 | but she 's had quite a lot of training in other things actually and with the man marketing department that they 've got there they might not need that the thing coming up I 've just had what 's interesting about that and what I do n't like about it is not to because I have a lot of respect for her . |
| 23 | Although the agricultural departments may make competent judgements about the suitability of hill land for agriculture or forestry it is difficult to comprehend how they might also make an assessment of the potential wider impact of a change in land use without considerably more evidence than is currently available . |
| 24 | I mean , fair enough , I can understand why they might not want to see Mr and Mrs Mowatt . |
| 25 | Well these had got , these cherries had been growing where they could n't see them you know . |
| 26 | They 're wondering why they ca n't see a human inside , he thought . |
| 27 | I ca n't see why they ca n't go on a camping holiday in France . |
| 28 | She 's put allocations on that list cos the other , the other field sales people do n't see why they ca n't get involved with the tour operator who wants an allocation |
| 29 | so I do n't see why they ca n't drive him ! |
| 30 | So I ca n't see why they should n't allow |