Example sentences of "[verb] they [vb mod] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pity they could n't actually have joined us because I was last there on a Monday night and my four friends and I swelled the numbers beyond double figures . |
| 2 | Bosses say they can no longer afford the free banking brought in eight years ago in an attempt to beat off competition from building society accounts . |
| 3 | He says they ca n't yet say all the jobs are safe but they want to build a growing company . |
| 4 | The law says they can not legally use the scanner except to listen to BBC , commercial and community radio stations and navigation information broadcast for public consumption . |
| 5 | Their opinion is that sponsored events on public highways are dangerous and place participants at unnecessary risk , and they have decided they will no longer support them . |
| 6 | The same constitutional medicine can be used for both palliative and curative purposes simultaneously , because deep acting remedies can be repeated frequently , without risk of aggravation , if correctly selected they may not only palliate but also cure the patient , even in apparently hopeless cases , because of the gentleness of the fifty millesimal scale . |
| 7 | Bass have spent months working on the deal and we 're told they will not even bother to attend tomorrow 's meeting of Premier clubs . |
| 8 | Officials let it be understood that Turkey would not object to Kurdish autonomy in a federal Iraq , but Özal , interviewed on March 29 , said that the Kurdish leaders " were clearly told they should definitely not consider a separate state " . |
| 9 | I mean Forest are pulling everybody behind the ball and you know they ca n't just sling the ball through . |
| 10 | Well thing is that I mean a lot of these jobs , I mean er yeah they recognize that , I mean a lot of them yo they think you 're as thick as shit and treat you like you 're as thick as shit just because you 're doing a thick as shit job but you know they ca n't necessarily give you more |
| 11 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
| 12 | Coupled with the financial implications if carers decided they could no longer shoulder this burden the case for supporting respite care becomes overwhelming . |
| 13 | The greatest sting , it seems , lies with credit cards which were issued almost indiscriminately in the booming Eighties , but now many people find they can no longer afford the interest charges levied . |
| 14 | Local authorities of all political hues have opposed schools ' moves to opt out , and many head teachers believe they could no longer work with them . |
| 15 | ‘ They all feel they ca n't just split up and never see or speak to one another again . |
| 16 | The despair is the fact that publishers feel they can no longer sell hardback fiction and biography , because of the very high price at which it 's published . |
| 17 | In the last two decades the number of people saying they could no longer do jobs about the house or enjoy their hobbies because of sickness has steadily risen . |
| 18 | Do you think they would n't rather have known the truth than believe you 'd grown too selfish to care ? ’ |
| 19 | As the renewable energy sources develop they will inevitably quickly lose their present quaint , pastoral image and the concepts of noise and horizon pollution will assume as significant a rôle in the public bestiary as do atmospheric and nuclear pollution today . |
| 20 | I mean they ca n't even go to the shops sometimes and they 're not safe . |
| 21 | Well , I think they must get out , I mean they ca n't live like that . |
| 22 | oh I love their platform shoes , I mean they 're fucking rub they ca n't even walk in them . |
| 23 | When Bilal Shebib and Samir Medina came to Stoke Mandeville for treatment in 1987 , their severe spinal injuries meant they could n't even sit up . |
| 24 | The two patients who withdrew ( numbers 6 and 13 ) felt they could no longer cope with the programme of evaluations of gastrointestinal function required in the protocol . |
| 25 | He had played a conciliatory role in ending the players ' strike during the last labour-contract negotiations in 1990 and some owners felt they could not fully trust him to be their man this time round . |
| 26 | To be honest , I felt they could quite easily manipulate him . ’ |
| 27 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 28 | The Government said dentists were treating more people than expected , causing a £15m a month overspend , but the profession argued if funding was cut they could no longer afford to do NHS work . |
| 29 | If the parents do not know what has happened they should either not interfere in the upset or equally attribute blame knowing that a row can not happen without two parties being involved . |
| 30 | Quite how their relationship will continue after the book ends is hard to tell but I think they will both just remain good friends . |