Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] they [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most importantly they come to see a film , not to a language class , so the language is a means to an end . |
| 2 | When people fall short of their standards , and are thereby in breach of their injunctions , somewhere inside they start to feel badly about themselves , and to begin to doubt their worth and acceptability . |
| 3 | And they collected so much they had to use a milk float to deliver the load . |
| 4 | Kate and John liked here idea so much they decided to sell the pelmets in their shop . |
| 5 | They 're in the hotel business in America and love Crystal Springs so much they want to buy it . ’ |
| 6 | Alone together they fell to tender embraces that rapidly shifted up a gear to heavy petting , and before long they had retired to the girl 's bedroom for more adventurous fun and games . |
| 7 | So often they have to pay the price of innovations , and those who watch their activities and pick out the most promising , usually devise the most profitably and sustainable systems . |
| 8 | And only then they seemed to live : |
| 9 | Some got as far as Rhodesia and the high altitude was n't any good so then they had to go on to Cape Town . |
| 10 | So then they have to fill out all the forms all over again and I get a stern warning against giving false information to police officers ! |
| 11 | The council says the theatre 's a major drain on their resources and to avoid shutting it down completely they had to make the change . |
| 12 | So any feature analyser would have to deal with context so therefore they started to look at the role of context and we 're gon na look at contextual effects later on , probably next week or the week after . |
| 13 | As the dragons fly further away they begin to dwindle . |
| 14 | Some have been brilliant , others not so brilliant , but the more successful they are , the more quickly they seem to go , often within a year . |
| 15 | And they will also know , that the more often they have to subject their students to the selective , norm-based assessment , the more some of their students will lose confidence and motivation and be reinforced in failure . |
| 16 | More frequently they try to manipulate the media to their advantage by the selective release of carefully timed and adjusted information and by threatening , punishing , and intimidating media staff . |
| 17 | ‘ That was n't smiling , that was probably just them trying to get their teeth apart , ’ said Gurder . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 20 | Typically then they operate to defeat the title of the unpaid seller ( let us call him C ) who has entrusted his goods to a buyer who , without paying C , has in turn sold them to an innocent purchaser . |
| 21 | ‘ Even so they had to send her half round the world . |
| 22 | Even then they failed to catch a glimpse of the plane , it had been immediately engulfed in a fifty-foot-high curtain of water and spray . |
| 23 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 24 | We keep asking questions about the Opposition 's investment plans : how much they intend to give to the British Technology Group , regional development agencies and investment trusts . |
| 25 | Up until the 1950s , it was difficult for any human beings who suffered from an allergic response to cats to become cat owners , no matter how much they longed to share their lives with a feline companion . |
| 26 | Then they calculate how much they hope to produce — their outputs — and what price they will get for their outputs of grain , or vegetables , milk , beef , wool or mutton in the markets . |
| 27 | It may be a good idea to telephone the agent to find out how much they propose to charge . |
| 28 | Their jubilation over Andy Mutch 's goal in the 67th minute showed just how much they wanted to win . |
| 29 | ‘ They decided they wanted to be involved and how much they wanted to pay for it . |
| 30 | The Local Government Finance Act 1988 imposes a duty on local authorities to calculate how much they needed to raise by way of the poll tax . |