Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is the managers of local authority stock who determine who is allocated to which houses and where ; who can enter the waiting list and how long they have to wait and , crucially , who can transfer within this sector . |
| 32 | It is very much up to individual groups to decide how long they want to go out , where they want to go and what they want to do , ’ said Mr Nelson . |
| 33 | And especially they want to find that ship . ’ |
| 34 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 35 | And perhaps they suffice to demonstrate , in a rudimentary way , how the arrangements and alterations of grammar provide additional specification to lexical associations so that the words can relate more precisely to features of context , including those features which are incorporated into the knowledge of the language users themselves . |
| 36 | Perhaps they wish to share their grief , but if I did not know Uncle Ted , then it becomes less easy to sympathise . |
| 37 | Perhaps they expect to get the club services free of charge . |
| 38 | If they did know , then perhaps they intended to follow Surere into the desert . |
| 39 | Perhaps they wanted to try and drive her crazy . |
| 40 | Perhaps they have to have their noisy times sometimes . |
| 41 | ‘ All that Wordsworthian waffle , and then when you meet the people all they want to do is hop on the bus and off to the nearest bright lights . ’ |
| 42 | All they have to do is drill there well he wo n't do no drilling |
| 43 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 44 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 45 | All they seem to do is target the ones at the hospitals , the police , the fire brigade , everything . |
| 46 | All they seem to do to me is drink coffee ! |
| 47 | When parents or social workers went up to see us , obviously they had to see the staff , and the woman in charge was so nice , she had this big front — ‘ My girls , my girls ’ — it was totally a load of shit . |
| 48 | But obviously they had to find out what it was all about . |
| 49 | In that obviously they have to take on board the views of their constituent districts . |
| 50 | But house er erm what is that that 's the footpath people is n't it , they always come and repair things if they 're told , at least they sh , but obviously they have to work in collaboration with the farmers , er concerned . |
| 51 | Only they seemed to understand the rules ; one of them turned round and stroked Nigel 's knee . |
| 52 | Only they decided to hang on to me . ’ |
| 53 | erm , but other people for the rest of , you know erm the time er , that they live in they have to live in poverty ! |
| 54 | Very often they have a bit of a say in it , because you know that the young girl has n't got , but erm interestingly enough they tend to get recycled to young men and it 's the older men that get the young girls from their older male and it 's younger men who get . |
| 55 | Of course , when one was a child many years ago winter could be an advantage , and if the storm was bad enough they had to close the school , which was wonderful . |
| 56 | So they seek to maximize their ‘ utility ’ in other ways — Niskanen argues that they do this by maximizing budgets , because this gives them extra power , prestige and status . |
| 57 | So they had to resort to indirect tactics . |
| 58 | So they had to wait to be dug out did they ? |
| 59 | So , so they had to do it . |
| 60 | So they had to draw it off , you see ? |