Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] they [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think she felt , as they went I was sitting reading all about horoscopes but they did win . |
| 2 | In any long-standing power relationship the person or group losing each conflict must have interests which are suppressed , and either do not appear in the public realm or quickly founder for lack of support when they do materialize . |
| 3 | Of course when they did reappear the predictable line ‘ And on the seventh day he rested ’ was much used . |
| 4 | They do not necessarily have a lot of money but they do expect good value and a broad service . |
| 5 | I believe this to be true in the case of computers where they do lag behind the West : I do not believe it in the case of radar . |
| 6 | The orderlies did n't do a lot of work but they did do a lot of talking , and their general cheerfulness had a lifting effect on the corridor as a whole . |
| 7 | Governor George Deukmejian , at the launch of the new safeguards , said that the law " will give California an unprecedented ability to prevent spills before they happen and to fight the effects of spills if they do occur . " |
| 8 | Serum urea , electrolyte , and liver function tests infrequently pointed to the cause of anaemia though they did identify coexisting disease . |
| 9 | Although there are numbers that can not be expressed as a sum of three squares , for instance 7 , Gauss had managed to find the number of expressions when they do exist . |
| 10 | The Americans do it much better having Thanksgiving to space it out so they only have a month of Christmas though they do seem to let their elections creep back just as we do with football … ’ |
| 11 | but they were much more interested in people of course with degrees but they did take people who had n't . |
| 12 | Martin 's an architect and and it actually probably would be you know it might be a good thing to actually sort of provoke a question with architects because they do specify these things and they 're the ones who actually say you know right we 'll specify hardwood . |
| 13 | Those defendants awaiting trial in custody might seem to be the most seriously disadvantaged by delay and they do tend to take priority . |
| 14 | Indeed one of the frustrating phenomena many pressure groups of this kind experience is continuing assertions by politicians that they do matter , which is accompanied by minimal concrete action . |