Example sentences of "[verb] and they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls said some of them were on the pill , others were n't because their mams and dads do n't know and they dare n't go to the family planning clinic . |
| 2 | Seriously though , Fenland people are some of the nicest you could wish to meet and they will often help you if they possibly can . |
| 3 | ‘ When they realise there 's work and money involved — when you refuse to take their problem — the penny suddenly drops and they might just consider spaying . |
| 4 | Quite frankly My Lords , if there are forty-one constabularies throughout the c country e excluding the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police , any for instance fifty people were a applied and they may well apply because plenty of people have already done so , you would be talking about a list of some two thousand people it 's quite impossible to think that my Honourable Friend would know all these two thousand people therefore carefully select party hats who might themselves not actually have applied anyhow . |
| 5 | ‘ Our members have a great deal of sympathy with what is being done and they would not encourage tests to be taken by supply teachers or other teachers , especially at primary school level . ’ |
| 6 | He says he finds it 's galling that that animals have suffered and they need not have . |
| 7 | What would happen is the prescription would be written and they 'd either get it from the chemist who would constantly have a stock coming in or the hospital . |
| 8 | And doing afterwards I did t er See the war came and they could n't get people . |
| 9 | If they were not , in my view they were wrongly decided and they should not influence your Lordships ' decision . |
| 10 | Socialism could not yet be built and they would inevitably disappoint proletarian expectations . |
| 11 | They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction . |
| 12 | Everything looks so high from here , and I 'm all squashed and thin like I 'm paper and people can walk over me and it would n't hurt and they would n't know I was there . |
| 13 | They worked the bank where his goats grazed and they would always stop and have a chat . |
| 14 | Protean-like kings , these people raise and they may likewise level . |
| 15 | Two weeks of manoeuvres , in which the two navies practised working together , would follow and they would then set sail for Portsmouth , defeating the British fleet , correctly estimated at around 35 major warships , en route . |
| 16 | Well they can physically do it to you with use of fists , use of hands and whatever else they 've got and they can mentally do it to you like put you in jail that or all sorts of things like when I was on sick leave , they came and lifted me . |
| 17 | This pessimism may have some truth given the present management approach within our schools but it is suggested here that if that managerial frame of reference was itself to be radically re-oriented , then teachers ' perceptions of their own professionality would also be powerfully affected and they may indeed come to feel that effective classroom activity was positively related to their performance in the wider school context . |
| 18 | It was dark and the lamps were lit and they might not have seen Sesostris if he had not had to step aside to avoid a porter with a heavy bundle on his back and stand for a moment in the light from a shop front . |
| 19 | of doing this and the opportunity is one where they are told to do and they will not miss the opportunity . |
| 20 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 21 | to cook and they wo n't say |
| 22 | Mrs Povah should become actively involved and they should jointly draw the £1,000 a month quoted . |
| 23 | The world is blurred and they can only focus on things that are very close — seven to 12 inches away . |
| 24 | pulls you up do that goes that way , does that goes that way so you 're upside down you see , you 've not only got weight and gravity pulling you down you 've also got the thrust of the engine pulling you down as well , and the only way the helicopters going to be able to do it is by getting enough height so they can sort of drop like that and they start dropping and they can just pull it back |
| 25 | They say the couple ‘ are fearful that the birth mother 's identity will be discovered and they can not deal with the repurcussions ’ . |
| 26 | sandwiches , there 's a cup of tea I said and they 'll never know . |
| 27 | At the same time , however , increased taxes on income mean that people derive less income for each hour they work and they may therefore decide to prefer leisure to work , i.e. work less — the substitution effect . |
| 28 | That 's what they 'll say and they 'll probably send me to prison . ’ |