Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 2 | If the profit margins of manufacturers are too drastically reduced they may move their capital from the industrial to the financial sector ; if the political power of the unions is legislated against they may make their power felt at the economic level by going on strike , or at the political level by withdrawing from established parliamentary parties and so on . |
| 3 | By having a friend to share their problems with they would feel less isolated and could learn how to cope . |
| 4 | This meant that they would n't be back before the pubs closed , but I also knew that if they knew who I was going out with they would have locked me in . |
| 5 | It is undeniable that animals intend to do things in the sense that it is often true of them that unless interfered with they will go on voluntarily to perform various actions . |
| 6 | And then she would listen to them read , well this is what they finished with they 'd have a book and they 'd take it up and she 'd listen to one line ! |
| 7 | If there 's anyone up atop they might give trouble . ’ |
| 8 | Some 30 named attendees heard a long and detailed speech from the Mayor in which he hinted that ‘ for reasons which he need not go into they must give up all idea of the links becoming the property of the town ’ . |
| 9 | They 'd come from the other way from er Snade Lane not Broad Lane , they 'd come up from they 'd come farther round , round and come in th in round the back sort of thing and we we 'd got no headquarters any more . |
| 10 | So they can do it from they can work it out for themselves actually . |
| 11 | What I have deplored or been sceptical about they would find admirable . |
| 12 | I think there are many purposes that the County Farms should have , and we need to look at what is the best value financially , that we can obtain for the people of Wiltshire , so when everybody talks about they 'd like their country schools maintained , they 'd like this that or the other bought , they 'd like Corsham station purchased , we could buy it easily if we sold a County Farm could n't we ? |
| 13 | I was hoping when they got that link road through they might connect up , but I do n't suppose it , sort of roads got ta put parking towards the long piece of |
| 14 | Right twelve shared out between they 'll get four each . |
| 15 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
| 16 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
| 17 | Run home , get changed wait , have a bath then go up to they 'll pick me up to go babysitting over there . |
| 18 | An organization would be most unlikely to dismiss them without good reason , and if it were to they would have little difficulty finding alternative work . |
| 19 | But , she said , if Dew members wished to they could present it back to her and she would ensure it went through the proper channels for presentation to the borough council . |
| 20 | I mean , I mean they are , they 're , they really are you know , we 're so complacent in this country , Mr Cameron , I , I do n't know , do you know , they 're just hitting us in every direction , my goodness me , you , you know , you 'll be afraid to breathe without they 'll want to target that . |
| 21 | Twenty one across they 'll make you livid |
| 22 | As ambassador he tried , without overwhelming success , to convince radical Iranian students the at they should support rather than demonstrate against the Shah . |
| 23 | Perhaps this attitude of ‘ cooling it ’ , ‘ turning off ’ , ‘ keeping his head down ’ , ‘ disengaging ’ on the part of the failing student is a special case of what Roy Cox ( 1967 ) had in mind when he said : ‘ It is clear that where students are assessed in a way which is not seen to be relevant to what they are aiming at they will tend to distort and degrade the assessment so that it does not become a source of esteem . ’ |
| 24 | For a longer period than in years gone by they can expect to be on their own together . |