Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 2 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 3 | Any one of them would bring in a good profit . |
| 4 | When their children go to school , they may take on a morning job in a shop or making school dinners . |
| 5 | Eventually they may take over a small group when the large parent troop undergoes fission as increasing size produces social instability . |
| 6 | Once The Stage covered all finals productions from the drama schools , but now they may write up a play perhaps once a year . |
| 7 | They must operate on a good deal less than total information ; 70 per cent is considered high availability for business people . |
| 8 | De Soto and his researchers , which include economists , sociologists and anthropologists and lawyers , have worked out some of the stark costs of formality in Peru : if a group of humble families gather and ask the government to give them an empty plot of land to live on , they must fill out a maze of forms and go to scores of ministry , municipal and other government offices , a process that averages six years and 11 months . |
| 9 | ‘ … we find it unfortunate that Upjohn failed to respond at all readily to requests made by the Licensing Authority as early as 1990 , that they should carry out a new post-marketing surveillance study ’ . |
| 10 | They should bring along a crane and pick the whole thing up with me in it and call it Frozen Communications and put it in some art gallery . |
| 11 | You know they 'll set up a search as soon as we 're reported missing . |
| 12 | I think it 's a stigma that a lot of men feel they ca n't show that they 're depressed or they 've got a problem so they 'll pick up a ph , a phone . |
| 13 | ‘ They might fall over a cliff together , too . ’ |
| 14 | The Americans led 54–41 at half-time and it always seemed they could step up a few gears when required . |
| 15 | Some of the men had brought ropes and small axes with them so that , while they were in the forest , they could carry back a load of firewood rather than returning empty-handed if they did n't get the boar . |
| 16 | Citing " informed Sudanese sources " the Egyptian paper Al-Sharq al-Awsat of Feb. 6 reported that 41 military officers had been arrested on Feb. 2 before they could carry out a plan to bomb the general staff headquarters during a meeting of the country 's military leaders . |
| 17 | Is it not wonderful that so many Dublin stockbrokers , estate agents , solicitors and others close to Michael Smurfit worked so hard over 17 months so that they could hand over a profit of millions to a fella called Pat Doherty in London . |
| 18 | If the forces unleashed are sufficient to overcome bureaucratic inertia and corruption they could bring about a transformation which will have even greater impact and importance than the development of the NHS in Britain . |
| 19 | Olga Stych was immediately biting about men who dressed up in aprons and fancy hats , and thought they could cook over a smelly barbecue . |
| 20 | I know they were collecting recordings of all the national songs , so they could set up a Ratio Free Norway or Denmark or Italy somewhere , after … ’ |
| 21 | I 've also had a query from a Sheffield Wednesday fan asking if they could set up a list here too ( the answer was no ! ) |
| 22 | It had been bought by a northern brewery who could n't believe that they could get over a pound a pint for their best bitter despite what they 'd heard about Londoners . |
| 23 | ‘ If the middle tier marketed themselves better , they could pick up a lot of business . ’ |
| 24 | They 'd bring down a little portable black-and-white television and wire it in to the video upstairs . |
| 25 | With their brittle tales of lost innocence , broken hearts and serial killers ( Ted Bunday and Charles Manson , in fact ) , they 'd stand out a mile anyway . |
| 26 | There 's too many metal and dirge infested undertones but they 'd go down a storm supporting Silverfish . |
| 27 | There 's too many metal and dirge infested undertones but they 'd go down a storm supporting Silverfish . |
| 28 | And it was interesting because er , we were talking about propulsion , talking about all types of er mechanics and sciences , and the way they 'd write up a report at the end which is part of the English part of it , and one of the youngsters said to me , he said , can I go home Mr ? |
| 29 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 30 | If these were to be conceded , they would rule out a number of technical options . |