Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pessimistic thing was , the Hobbesians always looked back to the past , some golden age of order in the past , you know , when , when people knew what to do and er , and er , things were right as it were , and th they tend to want to restore some ideal state of order and authority that existed in the past , which was much better than now , because civilization has gone to the dogs , and been corrupted and so on . |
| 2 | ‘ Once they have decided that they are committed to one man , they seem to want to acknowledge this publicly and to receive public approval in return . |
| 3 | Because some physicians regard IBS as a diagnosis of exclusion they feel compelled to exclude all organic disease . |
| 4 | Because they spent their year off teaching children in a nursery school , or working in a home for mentally handicapped people , and they discovered a new area of interest to which they can relate , and they become motivated to read that subject . |
| 5 | I suppose they get on reasonably well , but they do tend to rub each other up . |
| 6 | But we 've just got to wait and see , I mean , I know the sort of questions they 're going to ask , and they do deserve to hear some answers , I promise you that Jane . |
| 7 | The one where the fence comes they 've asked to fence this end , it 's that , those thin bits over |
| 8 | He says they 've tried to sell more but ca n't drag people into the pub . |
| 9 | Erm , I 'm not in a position to add anything very much to the article for next year , I spent most of Friday afternoon with the Tech last week , erm , but there 's still obviously a good deal of uncertainty about programmes for next year , erm , what I think has been very positive is that we have now er , this year for the first time since the Tech 's formation , they 've started to discuss some of the issues about the programmes with a group of providers . |
| 10 | But they 've failed to find any suspects . |
| 11 | We 've devolved the money to schools , but they 've got to spend most of it back with the council here . |
| 12 | They 've got to go this morning . |
| 13 | The times a poor old lady 's been raped and robbed in , they 've got to inspect all the gas pipes or they 've got to inspect something or the other . |
| 14 | They must prove to Thadeus that they 're here to destroy what he hates , and they 've got to do this in a reasonable period of time . |
| 15 | Making sure that your candidate attends every meeting , for er s you know during er an election campaign they 've got to attend all the meetings . |
| 16 | Er bearing in mind they 've also got eight thousand pounds of earnings and so the eight thousand pounds of earnings they 've got to use that up er savings , sorry , savings not earnings er before they can actually get means tested erm and there 's a s a sliding scale between three thousand and there . |
| 17 | you give them another ten minutes they 've got to make some banging to knock it round |
| 18 | They 've got to make some money out of that have n't they ? |
| 19 | Glenn Hoddle says that playing at Wembley can be like making your debut … the sight of the twin towers still gives you a buzz but they 've got to forget all about that and get on and win the game … it 's a wonderful place to play he says and the pitch should suit Swindon but they 've got to concentrate on the job in hand |
| 20 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |
| 21 | because they 've got to keep that reading going |
| 22 | When you 're poor and they 've got to find all the bills . |
| 23 | Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’ |
| 24 | So , they 've had to get men in , to board the windows up then if somebody else gets the house , they 've got to get these men to come and take the boards down again , then they glazier has to put the window in . |
| 25 | Right , in the long run , they 've got to cover all their costs , right , they will be driven out of business , but that may take some time . |
| 26 | But they , they 've got to start these younger people , although out there in there are a , a great number of ex-spoolers , but whether they would want to come back |
| 27 | Yeah so yeah they 've got to add some conditions on top of this things so it 's like should we do an age range thing ? |
| 28 | They 've got to buy some equipment . |
| 29 | But they 've refused to do that , and they insist on taking each case individually . |
| 30 | We 've heard them so many times that they 've ceased to have any effect . |