Example sentences of "they [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 But there was always them as just wanted to come and do nothing and pick the money up and that 's what they had to sort out the firms .
2 But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively .
3 But they so much want to help themselves . ’
4 yeah , but I mean they just desperately wanted to get away from Bristol
5 This is because when people try to translate an APR into what a loan will actually cost them they generally still seem to assume that an APR of , say , 10 per cent on a $100 loan would mean a credit cost of $10 — regardless of the period of the loan .
6 There were days when the leaders of the band refused to let them light any kind of fire in case German patrols found them and yet they somehow still had to produce food that the men could eat .
7 Yes , I mean we obviously feel that there are people who ca n't sit and listen or watch continually , and people who do dip in and out , but they still nonetheless want to know exactly what 's going on .
8 All the snotty spotty little nerds who support them , who would go weak at the knees and soil themselves if they ever ever went to see MUFC and met the abovementioned evil evil types .
9 They also powerfully helped to shape the subsequent roles and responsibilities of the major providers during the period in the District .
10 They also generally have to establish that they understand some of the unspoken rules relating to public participation : that they do n't embarrass their sponsors by the use of direct tactics or indiscreet communications with the press or unseemly behaviour in committee situations .
11 They also both attempted to obtain Tour Cards last year and failed , but neither have relaxed despite being prevented from returning to amateur competition during the past year .
12 The Football League hierarchy are also looking for a new TV deal for their revamped competition and they also still have to meet sponsors Barclays to discuss the final year of their deal .
13 Artemis helped her and they both instinctively began to hurry , lest Artemis 's father should return and find them still there , even though he had given his permission .
14 From these bits of activity , a richer life could develop ; but it is vital that whatever Harry and Elizabeth choose is something they both really want to do and not a situation where she goes along with it in a patronising way , and then leaves him high and dry .
15 But because they now genuinely appear to believe that we will swallow absolutely anything .
16 They did n't want to drive , but they did , they learnt to drive , but they they said they never really wanted to do it , but only if they really really had to do it .
17 If they then still chose to seek engineering jobs , this could be seen as evidence of commitment .
18 Any chance of the former had been negated by Britain 's failure to topple Nasser at Suez ; and the latter was unlikely for some years because the aircraft did not , as yet , exist ; and the RAF had no real enthusiasm for providing the necessary money to buy them out of Air votes , which they quite naturally wanted to use for combat and not transport aircraft .
19 It is comparable with the now discredited phonetic method of teaching children to read where they no sooner learned to read by this method than they had to scrap all they had learned and then start all over again and learn to read properly .
20 The principal social worker involved having returned from leave , on 22 January 1992 the local authority informed all the parties by telephone that they no longer intended to oppose the father 's application .
21 ‘ I need to know who your customers are , what orders they have placed in the past and why they no longer wish to trade with you .
22 This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment .
23 They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable .
24 Thanks to American backing , they no longer had to worry about the small size of the British market , the limitations of the native cinematic culture or their responsibility to show Britain on the screen .
25 As they no longer seemed to exist as ready-made garments , my wife bought the material .
26 They no longer want to go to school .
27 But now , buoyed by the prospect of a landslide victory in March , they no longer want to have anything to do with the disreputable Mr Le Pen .
28 MANAGERS at Darlington Arts Centre have announced they no longer want to play host to the town 's annual beer festival .
29 One argument says that mammals only began to grow larger when they no longer needed to lead furtive , skulking lives , hiding in crannies to avoid the fearsome dinosaurs .
30 Members of the right-wing Solidarity Group picked up so many shadow cabinet posts that they no longer needed to organise .
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