Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend perhaps just to lack that real killer instinct and erm it 's such a great shame because people might laugh and joke looking at the league table , in fact United , since Christmas , have played some very good football indeed . |
| 2 | During this process younger children learn that if they cry loud enough to get the parent involved they usually get their own way . |
| 3 | This family comes from a long line of fishermen … now unable to float their boats in the silted up harbour except at high tide they catch hardly enough to feed themselves . |
| 4 | They meet fairly often to play chess . ’ |
| 5 | They dig deep especially to maintain the under-21 resources . |
| 6 | She marvels that they flow so easily to fill the vast space in which she moves . |
| 7 | They come ashore there to breed . |
| 8 | They come together regularly to discuss standards of recruitment and recruits in the area , as well as the standards of the management committee members who are involved with them in the interviewing process . |
| 9 | Their subordination to adults in general is minimized by what might almost be called an avoidance of them : from the age of five or six , they return home only to eat and sleep , and spend the rest of their time in unsupervised gangs . |
| 10 | They have also yet to lose in the League , Millwall 's threat being thwarted by a dogged defence and a dollop of luck . |
| 11 | ‘ They say that they have nowhere else to go , but I know that facing the world on their own would be even more frightening . ’ |
| 12 | Steve says they have nowhere else to go . |
| 13 | They have nowhere else to go . |
| 14 | In a tract written shortly before the 1715 General Election , Atterbury maintained that " the People " had been " fleec 'd so often " by the heavy taxes imposed by the Whigs to fight their wars , that " they have scarce enough to keep them from Perishing " . |