Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv] [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor with the grumbling of people who did n't want to stand up when they 'd just sat down . |
| 2 | must wait to find out whether they have won promotion from North-East Two after securing fourth place with a 1210 win away to second-placed Thornensians . |
| 3 | They want to feel righteous , but they do n't want to define exactly where they stand . |
| 4 | When peers are becoming absorbed by the new life-style that a baby brings , a couple may feel left behind if they do not embark on this too . |
| 5 | It 's clear that neither Jane nor Grant want to split up but , in Jo 's view , they should stop living together if they want to save their relationship . |
| 6 | The huge padlock seemed oddly out of place for anyone could have broken in if they had wished . |
| 7 | ‘ We made the effort last year , but the talks would have broken down before they started , except for the Ulster Unionists . ’ |
| 8 | Investors may have to wait longer than they anticipate before enjoying maximum premiums . |
| 9 | If Rod or Jim were n't on the set on time , we would have to wait about until they arrived . |
| 10 | So , short of sending the recording tape on a long detour through the corridors of the Palace of Westminster before it goes on the air , the parliamentary censors will have to work faster than they think . |
| 11 | But Birmingham must have won today cos they had equal top must have won I would have thought . |
| 12 | Unionists did not wish to stand down where they had a candidate of their own ready to fight ; in these circumstances , the NDP did remarkably well in 1918 , winning eleven seats , all in Labour strongholds where neither Unionists nor Coalition Liberals had much desire to stand , and they beat both MacDonald and Henderson . |
| 13 | If a supplier decides to increase his market share by attracting higher usage by occasional users , he must first attempt to find out whether they buy competitors ' goods or not , or where there is something about the present marketing mix which dissuades them from buying more frequently . |
| 14 | Well I mean there , there , there 's no question about nineteen forty nine absolutely non no documents could have come out unless they had Mao 's approval . |
| 15 | I 'll have to find out where they went . |
| 16 | Otherwise it may be difficult to appreciate how very natural it is that things should have turned out as they did . ) |
| 17 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 18 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 19 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |
| 20 | I knew Mum would not have done so because they did n't get on , although I never found out why . |
| 21 | ‘ The patients may have died even if they had been admitted . ’ |
| 22 | But those who find these positions unattractive will have to look further if they want to say that there are such things as knowledge or justified belief . |
| 23 | And how are we to make alliances with those women or are we to say that we do not wish to do so until they 've gone through a greater degree of learning process . |
| 24 | At Cabinets on 9 , 10 and 11 December he cautiously defended it on the ground that Hoare must have known more than they did , and defended also the continuation of Hoare 's holiday , although this by then had become more of a matter of nursing than of recreation , for he had fallen on the ice and broken his nose in two places . |
| 25 | should have gone soon as they got out of work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I s well I wan na get a photocopy of that jacket , so I thought if I , Friday night which I should be home pretty , pretty much on the dot I 'll have to pick the , pick these two up and I 'll have to just go run down before they close . |
| 28 | I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge |
| 29 | Do n't seem to slow down when they get older do they ? |
| 30 | The traditional careers of doctor , dentist , lawyer , solicitor , accountant , actuary , vet , structural engineer and pharmacist are united by the certainty that their salaries will continue to rise steadily until they reach the top of their professions . |