Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 2 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 3 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 4 | There 's millions of junkies and not one of them ever wanted to be a junkie . ’ |
| 5 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |
| 6 | More of them probably remain to be identified , particularly where there were important royal centres in Saxon times . |
| 7 | He found them enormously relaxing to be with . |
| 8 | The green light surrounding them now seemed to be imparting a sick lifeless pallor . |
| 9 | The bodies all appeared to be at slightly different stages of decomposition ; the one before them now looked to be the most recent of them all . |
| 10 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 11 | Industrialists often made that sort of threat , but they rarely seemed to be carried out . |
| 12 | They only had to be with you . |
| 13 | Some people believe that they only need to be turned once more , while others say that they need scrapping . |
| 14 | ‘ The advice I gave the bench and the decision they rightly came to was for a re-trial . ’ |
| 15 | But although they were terrified of the Magistrate , who in more peaceful times had so often savaged their verses , the ladies in the billiard room stoutly refused to volunteer for the banqueting hall , which they wrongly believed to be more dangerous than the Residency except for Lucy , who was generally acknowledged to have nothing to live for anyway . |
| 16 | Like all basically lazy people he was content to let things be not only when they were going well , but also when they merely appeared to be going well . |
| 17 | They just tend to be more intense in stepfamilies . ’ |
| 18 | They just had to be there and play well and perform well . |
| 19 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |
| 20 | They just happened to be around after Mass when volunteers were needed . |
| 21 | They just happened to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 22 | They just want to be seen calling at the house . ’ |
| 23 | Although they live together and have children they do n't seem to be a couple , they just seem to be two people who do their own thing . |
| 24 | Okay well we 're in a really bad situation , I mean we can achieve something at least and perhaps oh perhaps communism does n't work after all , they just seem to be doubting their own beliefs and what they 've read . |
| 25 | Yeah although the tape 's on I 'll still say I 'll still say I mean there are people within the company as within any company I 'm sure who you when you get to know their technical ability or lack thereof you think well how have they managed to get where they have but they just seem to be able they seem to have this ability to be able to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 26 | ‘ They just wanted to be seen as loyal citizens . ’ |
| 27 | But we emphasis that nominations need not be famous names ; they just need to be people who have distinguished themselves by their courage or achievement . |
| 28 | They just refused to be flushed . ’ |
| 29 | And they just happen to be two of the best tracks . |
| 30 | And they just happen to be attached to a saint ! |