Example sentences of "[verb] they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |
| 2 | There has been an increase in suitable candidates , with women becoming more highly qualified through educational opportunities — businesses realise they can not afford to cut themselves off from 50 per cent of the market eg IBM , Unilever . |
| 3 | Furthermore W. 's foster parents indicated at about this time that if W. were discharged they could not continue to offer her a home . |
| 4 | Children seem to have little difficulty accepting this convention because it is so like the action replays they will frequently have seen on television . |
| 5 | Shame they could n't have stumbled upon a more dramatic way of doing it . |
| 6 | Shame they could n't have lifted the pitch and let it roll in . |
| 7 | And although the police stress they want to educate bad drivers as much as land them in court , they say they wo n't hesitate to prosecute those who deserve it . |
| 8 | All the women say they ca n't wait to get rid of me ! |
| 9 | All the women say they ca n't wait to get rid of me ! |
| 10 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 11 | I do n't know , people l I 'm of them say they ca n't afford to pay the kids , and get the food for the kids , and they 'll have to give them chips a couple of , every day of the week or whatever , but th there 's no need for that . |
| 12 | The firm has been put into liquidation by it 's owners , who say they ca n't afford to pay redundancy money . |
| 13 | But locals say they would n't want to live anywhere else . |
| 14 | Parveen 's colleagues say they would n't have dared to retaliate , although they can understand what drove her to do so . |
| 15 | Of course , some dieters say they can not help bingeing on such foods . |
| 16 | Sainsbury hope to build a store on United Bus company land at Grange Road , but owners Caldaire say they can not afford to sell the land because it has to give the Government a fixed percentage of the sale . |
| 17 | An independent charity , the association say they can only hope to continue this level of help to sporting organisations with the public 's support . |
| 18 | Many of Britain 's 18,000 dentists say they will simply refuse to see any new NHS patients . |
| 19 | He believed they may also have exploded blast bombs . |
| 20 | That means that er sa , America says they wo n't do bomb them or anything yet . |
| 21 | He says they wo n't have to look for change . |
| 22 | Brian Horton says they could not have had a better match . |
| 23 | I imagine they would both want to come back anyway . |
| 24 | As the law requiring £40 landowners to take up knighthood was seldom observed , the sumptuary acts conceded that it was reasonable for the many men who did not choose to do so to adopt the dress appropriate to the standard of living they must certainly have enjoyed . |
| 25 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ he said , ‘ I do n't expect they will really want to know ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Once the UN arms embargo is adopted they will probably have to stop . |
| 27 | And the vets at Stroud hope they wo n't have to deal with any more victims of senseless shooting . |
| 28 | As far as they are concerned the future does not exist in any way , other than that they hope they wo n't live to have any part in it . |
| 29 | ‘ I do not think identity cards would have changed things — I suspect they would not have deterred people from travelling without tickets . ’ |
| 30 | The eastern states claimed they could not afford to dispose of the chemicals , which would require incineration , and were originally given until the end of 1992 to use them up . |