Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again . |
| 2 | An independent charity , the association say they can only hope to continue this level of help to sporting organisations with the public 's support . |
| 3 | Children seem to have little difficulty accepting this convention because it is so like the action replays they will frequently have seen on television . |
| 4 | It went on to warn against any general attack on fiscal incentives ( or , as ICAS says the report negatively and unhelpfully refers to them , ‘ fiscal degradation ’ ) : there is no level playing field in the EC and so less successful economies have to offer incentives to compete , ICAS said , and any attempt to eliminate them would only lead to governments using non-tax ones which will be harder for others to identify . |
| 5 | Parental care is often carried out for many weeks with no harm coming to the young , but you occasionally get a pair that are very prolific and , in their need to spawn they will often eat their previous brood . |
| 6 | Heppelmann says they will now appear anytime between September and next January , claiming HP 's existing £3,877 , low-end 715/33 desktop remains very competitive with other entry-level systems , including Sun 's £3,655 Tsunami-based SparcClassic and IBM Corp 's £3,664 RS/6000 220W . |
| 7 | Clough 's team decided they 'd rather die than swallow such medicine . |
| 8 | Thames Water say they 'll no carry out further studies of the site over the next two to three years . |
| 9 | Although an opinion poll last week suggested they could just secure the required number of seats , the tide is expected to turn against them in the course of a three-week campaign . |
| 10 | While your friends are giving you a hard time at present if you persist and refuse to indulge in drug taking they should eventually accept you as a non-user . |
| 11 | But the ruling says they can only pay the bare minimum . |
| 12 | She said she was going to make a Will saying they could both stay on , without paying rent , as long as they wanted to . |
| 13 | He would be making a terrible mistake to think they will just go away . |
| 14 | To Esau the reunion means they must now journey on together , but when he suggests it Jacob replies : ‘ My lord knows that the children are frail , and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me ; and if they are overdriven for one day , all the flocks will die . |
| 15 | One of the high-heid yins wanted to have 20 gondolas , but another councillor said they should only get a male and a female and breed them . ’ |
| 16 | The RSPCA says they will now try different tactics , attempting to gain the animals trust so they 're not so frightened of people . |
| 17 | And all the old crowd returned They 'd often come past the shop to see when it was going to open up again . |
| 18 | If somebody failed to come up to her own high standards the directness she had inherited from her Australian background meant they would soon know . |
| 19 | If matters are n't resolved to their satisfaction the environmental groups warn whatever Timbmet say they may well come back . |
| 20 | But the family say they 'd rather stay in temporary digs . |
| 21 | Her family says they can only hope that Katharine 's tragedy will help bring a change in the law , so at least other victims will benefit from her experience . |
| 22 | Seeing that Hilary was n't taking it in , he added , ‘ Ryan and his partner thought they 'd easily get planning permission to build an estate on the land where your cottage stood . |
| 23 | The family said they would never forgive Downey for what he had done to Suzannah . |