Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [indef pn] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a witness told how he had seen looters running through evacuated apartments hunting for anything they could carry away . |
| 2 | Thus , though more than 20 per cent of people are in fact likely to use mail order , it is very unlikely that mail order would ever occur to more than 20 per cent of people as a potential source of credit when they were ( say ) standing in front of a shop window looking at something they would like to buy . |
| 3 | There are other people who only work by consensus , but once they 've agreed to something they 'll do it very effectively . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 5 | I think people were just dying to seize upon anything they could find . |
| 6 | In that match I feel we would gain some consolationf from having 11 corners and maybe want to see the moves leading up to those … as they did nt amount to anything they may have just shown the ‘ dangerous ’ attacks . |
| 7 | They fought over everything they could think of to fight over they were really niggly ! |
| 8 | The Great Lakes area , for instance , is infested with zebra mussels , which stick to anything they can get their suckers on , while certain waters in the Gulf of Mexico suffer from clinging sea grasses . |
| 9 | Each time the Collective Ghost clutches at someone they must make a successful WP test or suffer the same effect ; if they are already suffering from despair , the effect lasts an extra D10 turns . |