Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them appear to have been angered and disappointed at the church 's suppression of the proposed scheme . |
| 2 | Amis has only three definite things in his life ; his skills , his van , and his career plan , and all of them seem to have been taking a beating over the past few weeks . |
| 3 | The Natural History and Antiquarian Society of Islay had a very few books which were kept in the school at Bowmore but most of them seem to have been lost . |
| 4 | All of them look to have been constructed from set designs for Fritz Lang 's cinematic version of the Nibelungenlied , one of the favourite films of the Führer : rough-hewn temples and folk-moot halls embodying an exaltation of the primitive Teutonic spirit . |
| 5 | But as Ray said , all they got to do is query it have n't they . |
| 6 | All they got to do is have faith . |
| 7 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 8 | Every stroke they make has been monitored . |
| 9 | Some of what they found has been reclaimed by its owners but there 's plenty left . |
| 10 | They 've already lost the centre half the last thing they want to happen is to lose a centre forward . |
| 11 | All they want to do is make sure it does n't blow up into anything . ’ |
| 12 | Once they 've completed their trip all they want to do is head off back home and they simply do n't devote the time , energy and money on clearing up . |
| 13 | Evan 's angry and embarrassed , Nic 's sullen beyond belief , there 's a rammed , expectant club waiting for them to play , and all they want to do is moan at their manager ( who also works for Nirvana ) back in the States . |
| 14 | Those boys are the type of boys , all they want to do is put in their eight hours and go home . |
| 15 | At an emotional meeting earlier this week , Terry told me ‘ I 've lost touch with the modern game , Les , nobody seems to be interested in drinking these days , all they want to do is get on with the football . ’ |
| 16 | food , they 're , they 're non food people , they do n't wan na go , all they want to do is get something in their stomachs , we do n't , when we go oh I like to eat the culture , I like the |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Playing an active game can over-excite children to the point that all they want to do is play the game . |
| 19 | Girls often become very close to their mothers , consequently the last thing they want to do is to bring any form of unhappiness to their lives . |
| 20 | ah because the annual report this year is all they want to do is plug er three or four little topics that we 've done er on a thematic basis . |
| 21 | The 1798–9 version of The Prelude ( or the first two books ) may be read at this point , and if the reader finds more to enjoy in the narrative sections this is entirely appropriate since they appear to have been written as separate entities and only later blended into a single poem . |
| 22 | The only occasion upon which they appear to have been considered by this court was in Reg. v. McNiff [ 1986 ] Crim.L.R. 57 , in respect of which we have been helpfully provided with a transcript of the judgment . |
| 23 | Well , now the FADs are galvanised — on record , thanks to Fall producer Craig Leon , who transformed recent comeback single ‘ It 's Not What You Know ’ from a bitter mumble into a magnificent , eloquent tirade — but live , they appear to have been studying drama at summer school . |
| 24 | I I find this quite extraordinary Chairman after two years of consistently arguing and voting in committee and at council , they appear to have been bought off by the Labour group and now intend to support a fudged half merger , half federation option . |
| 25 | In Rockingham and Whittlewood they appear to have been discontinued after the time of Charles I , and in 1789 the Rt . |
| 26 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 27 | They appear to have been settled in the seventh century in areas now known as Kosovo , Montenegro and Bosnia . |
| 28 | They appear to have been initiated by the head of the Party Chancellery , Martin Bormann , probably under pressure from anti-Christian activists at Gau level , for whom the apparent strengthening of the Church 's hold over the population during the war was a notable provocation . |
| 29 | Rather they are emphasising the fact that every programme they show has been seen before , at least once although they are saying that they are ‘ devoted to Britain 's favourite TV programmes ’ . |
| 30 | The distress they show has been subsumed into other more modern conditions like schizophrenia , which can not be so readily seen . |