Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they [verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archaeology shows that the material was appreciated by the local population of this region long before they had begun to practise farming . |
| 2 | The patients were asked whether they still had the pain and if so whether they had learnt to live with it . |
| 3 | Even quite old children will sometimes be seen at the breast , long after they have begun to eat an adult diet , sucking not so much for sustenance as for emotional consolation . |
| 4 | For others , however , it will be plain that they made their asylum claim to extend their stay here only when they had failed to prolong it by other means . |
| 5 | ‘ Especially when they 've paid to enjoy what , for some anyway , must be the holiday of a lifetime , ’ Lindsey smilingly agreed . |
| 6 | This does not mean that victims are consciously playing this game , but rather that they have learnt to live this way , not realising there is any better alternative . |
| 7 | The company says the attempt at a buyout failed because the managers realised that it would take longer than they had planned to develop a new generation of the 50 Series minicomputer line . |
| 8 | I 'm not fighting anybody just because they 've decided to make a comeback . ’ |
| 9 | The raid , on a property in Knotto Bottom Way , failed but not before they had tried to force a sliding window at the front of the home . |
| 10 | They have to promote themselves now just as they 've got to get bums on seats as they say . |
| 11 | Elephants , on the other hand , kick out the fellas as soon as they 've done the necessaries , kick out the boy children as soon as they 've started to shave , and live in a contented matriarchal world afraid of no man but the ivory poacher . |
| 12 | As the older generations who had kept up the tradition passed away , there were not so many young people in the village to carry it on and they had left to find employment and housing in the towns . |
| 13 | For most of the century they earned from 10 to 12s a week ( 50-60p ) , and could , it was often argued , have earned more if they had chosen to work more hours . |
| 14 | Unless there is a special compassionate feature , such as the one given by the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , we need to return them home before they have begun to establish themselves here , making their eventual removal more difficult for us and even more unwelcome for them . |
| 15 | There was a period when cyclists disappeared from the Meet altogether but they have started to return in the last few years and among the highlights of this year 's event — May 22–25 — will be a return to races on the old grass cycle track around the perimeter of Richmond Cricket Club 's ground and a road race for penny-farthings . |
| 16 | Then I thought … well , as it happens , I did know that the old lady — MM Hamilton — had died earlier this year , and of course that could have meant that Dad 's job had packed up and they 'd had to move . |
| 17 | Now , I know many pe , persons who have liked smoking but who have to , for some reason or other , maybe raised blood pressure , to give up and they have managed to do it and quite easily , because they have desperately wanted to . |
| 18 | She made a deliberate effort to relax : they would both have blown up if they had had to sit like that all evening , she thought . |
| 19 | It turned out that they had come to consult me . |
| 20 | Aesthetically it 's a dead loss now that they 've tried to modernize everything . |
| 21 | That evening the periti were thanked for their help , and urged to go on talking to bishops now that they had learned to do so . |
| 22 | It is even worse now that they have got to pay V A T on those bills as well . |
| 23 | The travellers will then find out if they 've got to get on the move again . |
| 24 | Over the millennia , cultures have changed very substantially as they have learned to cope with environmental vicissitudes . |
| 25 | Recently signed to Gilles Peterson 's Talkin' Loud label at Phonogram , it 's here that they 've gathered to address the question of how the Great British music press is going to receive them . |
| 26 | Well if they 've got to pick up at Norwood Gardens how 's the bus going to get to Norwood Gardens . |
| 27 | The Abingdon-based Morland brewers will know tomorrow if they 've managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid . |
| 28 | He told me it was still there and that he 'd been told he 's got to write to them today and they 've got to get it taken off within twenty eight days . |
| 29 | Many clearly accepted the propaganda version of events and , even if they had begun to have their doubts about Hitler , regarded the plot as a sacrilegious and treasonable act against the head of State , and an attempted sabotage of the war effort . |
| 30 | Even if they had wanted to black the work in support of a NATO ally , they say they had no grounds once Britain began delivering the engines after the Falklands war . |