Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb base] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that after the age of thirty certain poets seem to be incapable of writing much that is worth reading ; there are notable exceptions , but they only serve to prove the rule . |
| 2 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 3 | Another woman told me about how Sylheti men returned to the village to find a bride : ‘ After years in England they suddenly decide to marry a village girl . |
| 4 | These people here are very over-careful you know , they just like to cover every eventuality so they asked us all to ring our families even though there is n't a thing wrong … . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Not really , they just like to have an escort sometimes . ’ |
| 6 | I think they just want to see the football , I do n't think there are going to be any riots ; there 's no organisation , no just going for the fun . |
| 7 | ‘ They just want to do the job they are paid and trained to do and they want to do it in suitable clothing , ie in uniform . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ People are paranoid — they just want to keep the problem under control so they do n't get robbed by juvenile delinquents , ’ she said . |
| 9 | They just want to get the job done then ? |
| 10 | As far as APEX is concerned they are OK up to a point but they just want to follow the legal procedures and we want them to take some kind of militant action . |
| 11 | Often they just want to know the figures . |
| 12 | In short , they do not want to provide services ; they just want to blame the Government . |
| 13 | And they just love to have a Pow Wow . |
| 14 | they do n't have to understand it , they just have to remember the words , yeah . |
| 15 | They just have to make the best of things and not confuse ‘ sorrow ’ with ‘ despair ’ ; even the hobbits ' schoolboy humour has a point . |
| 16 | ‘ But in the end they get pushed over ; they just manage to delay the bigger-spending Departments a bit , And they pop up again , good as new , the next time , like a row of skittles . ’ |
| 17 | They thus decline to proffer a general , universal theory ; while at the same time postulating an unexamined ‘ psychic unity of mankind ’ . |
| 18 | In this practice there is a parallel with Dutch work , for like the 30 km/h zone experiments in Holland , though these avoid the use of sophisticated Woonerf-style street furniture , they still attempt to incorporate the infrastructural works that increase the driver 's perception of the need for slow-speed behaviour . |
| 19 | They still try to despatch the bad balls and the safety of quick singles often depends on the inability of the converging fieldsmen to make a direct hit on the stumps . |
| 20 | They still have to pre-set the amount of money . |
| 21 | Even if they pass that test they still have to pass the second hurdle of being " in consumer use " when the defect arises . |
| 22 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |
| 23 | They still have to pay a self employed one as well you know ? |
| 24 | Traditionally , Archdeacon Oliver explains , archdeacons dealt with legal and property matters , but although they still have to keep an eye on architects and parsonage houses , their work is far more , nowadays , to do with pastoral negotiation . |
| 25 | When viruses succeed in binding to cell membrane receptors they still have to enter the cell and break up into separated proteins and genetic material before they can replicate . |
| 26 | Many are now in the caring hands of staff at the Battersea Dogs Home in London , but they still have to find a permanent home . |
| 27 | They still want to take the park over and run it on a similar operation to Southsea/Rom . |
| 28 | It makes none because whereas The Smiths attract the same kind of audience ( who hold intense faith ) as U2 and The Jam ( which is basically the male dominated sexually repressed types who are also the essence of heavy metal ) they still refuse to display the schoolboy phoney surreal imagery of those people . |
| 29 | Whenever articles are written or programmes broadcast about consumer rights , they always seem to put the trader into the ‘ bad boy ’ box . |
| 30 | They always seem to do a lot just here |