Example sentences of "[subord] they [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |
| 2 | They did n't want to drive , but they did , they learnt to drive , but they they said they never really wanted to do it , but only if they really really had to do it . |
| 3 | All the snotty spotty little nerds who support them , who would go weak at the knees and soil themselves if they ever ever went to see MUFC and met the abovementioned evil evil types . |
| 4 | If they then still chose to seek engineering jobs , this could be seen as evidence of commitment . |
| 5 | It has been observed that some people switching from using a typewriter to a personal computer can gain up to half a stone a year because they no longer have to get up to consult filing cabinets ; and the same effects can be observed when people use remote-control television , extension phones , lifts and dishwashers . |
| 6 | It 's true that the show has to go on but if such behaviour caught on I 'd be bound to go on and say , ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , so-and-so is n't coming ’ because they not only want to appear on the show , they want to produce it as well ! ’ |
| 7 | But because they now genuinely appear to believe that we will swallow absolutely anything . |
| 8 | Men are less fortunate , since they not only have to cope with the cultural fear of showing emotion , but also with the dismissive and often lewd attitudes to women with which they are surrounded . |
| 9 | One argument says that mammals only began to grow larger when they no longer needed to lead furtive , skulking lives , hiding in crannies to avoid the fearsome dinosaurs . |
| 10 | At p524 The Lord President stated : In neither of the English cases referred to was it doubted that if trustees carry on a trade or business — as they not infrequently have to do , at least for a time — they are assessable under Case I of Schedule D ; although again the balance of their profits and gains is theirs only in a representative capacity … |
| 11 | As they no longer seemed to exist as ready-made garments , my wife bought the material . |