Example sentences of "they [verb] they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you get them going they will readily take double caster or three bronze maggots offered on a size 14 . |
| 2 | The POA says previous appeals for extra staff have fallen on deaf ears ; if the same happens this time , they fear they 'll soon have a riot on their hands . |
| 3 | Oh that 's this er they want they can all have one of these . |
| 4 | The US Baby Bells are telling the US powers that be that they will invest $100,000m upgrading their networks if they are permitted to carry any services they choose on them — if not , they will simply allow their networks to deteriorate and decay : no , they do n't actually go that far , but they say they will collectively invest only $25,000m . |
| 5 | They say they could now lose thousands of pounds without expert advice on their crops . |
| 6 | It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction . |
| 7 | As they bargain they can now stop the drama and turn ( out of role ) to their peers and ask for help . |
| 8 | In this way , people lose their virginity , experiment with drink or drugs , run up debts , consider divorce and even vote for political parties they swore they would never support . |
| 9 | Strongly influenced by their worldwide sales to date of over 60 million ‘ Walkman ’ products , they believe they can similarly capture a huge mass market for personal , on-the-move , multimedia information and games . |
| 10 | Medicine , a respected and lucrative profession in Germany as elsewhere , is the discipline that is most oversubscribed , and medical academics are forced to take on far more students than they feel they can reasonably teach . |
| 11 | All the best rock bands come out of art colleges , etc … and it 's still the case they find they can only reproduce music from Beethoven , Mozart , etc . |
| 12 | I know enough about geophysics to say that these people are lying through their teeth when they claim they can eventually guarantee long-term safety underground . ’ |
| 13 | They felt they should either bring in new blood or sell the company . |
| 14 | Our doctors were delighted for they knew they would soon need expert surgical help , but secretly they enjoyed showing the ‘ greats ’ who had little rooms adjoining each other on that top floor , the good work that had been done in ‘ the acute exanthemata . ’ |
| 15 | Although they knew they would never forget Jennie , the Girls wanted her to have a permanent memorial so they had a collection and made a most practical and fitting choice : a marble floor for the church of St Stephen on the Cliffs , Blackpool . |
| 16 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 17 | They regarded the occupation of land as the essential base of family and community life , but at the same time , they knew they could only survive if they had wage-earning employment as well . |
| 18 | ‘ If they knew they 'd never leave me in peace . |
| 19 | If they knew they 'd never try to find out why , but would drive her out there and then . |
| 20 | So convinced were the farmers that in July they delayed the trebbiatura , the threshing of the grain , hoping that they could do it under Allied administration ; they thought they would probably get 700 lire more for each sack . |
| 21 | Who , after all , would decline a chance to emigrate because they thought they might later qualify as a refugee ? |
| 22 | Today staff have been preparing to welcome 2 young men whom they thought they might never see again . |
| 23 | Well they thought they could only get it through both legislatures and the courts for women . |
| 24 | In retrospect , one often wonders how they thought they could possibly succeed . |
| 25 | But , they , they thought they 'd probably struggle . |
| 26 | Holding solicitors confirm to the others that their client 's part is signed and is identical to the part signed by the other party ; they agree they will forthwith insert in both parts the agreed completion date . |
| 27 | We might try and put all the on tomorrow and if they do they 'll just work till they get them on . |
| 28 | If one stops for a piss the rest might catch up and if they do they will either fall straight over him so that you finish with a ball of dogs that will take forever to unwind , or they will take lumps out of him . |
| 29 | And as they marched they 'd joyously sing , |
| 30 | Elsewhere , the company is persuading people to take just one paper napkin instead of the traditional handful ( usage is down by 40 per cent at one US example ) and asking them to help themselves to just as many vegetables as they think they 'll realistically eat . |