Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd better not go on that thing . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd better not try it ! |
| 3 | They 'd better not get any on me after I 've done this , put it that way . |
| 4 | Also , while eating more healthily , they did not completely restrict favourite foods . |
| 5 | They did not particularly want that , but it was foisted upon them . |
| 6 | In the end only 11 per cent said they did not particularly lose more inches than previous dieting attempts had produced . |
| 7 | The force with which the judges made their case for Second Empire can be explained by assuming that they felt that if they did not strongly press for this form of building , another , and less welcome style in their eyes , would be adopted . |
| 8 | 400e ) , they identified themselves with the state , or put themselves on a level with it : they did not openly claim to rule it . |
| 9 | According to Richards , therefore , critics need two things that they did not habitually possess at the time he was writing , and usually do not possess now : a theory of communication and a theory of valuation . |
| 10 | He came up the garden shouting something — they did not properly hear him . |
| 11 | A dedicated professional seaman , he practised his motor launches ( MLs ) , the motor gun boat ( MGB ) , and the modified motor torpedo boat ( MTB 74 ) operating in close company , manoeuvres they did not normally execute and only had a few weeks to learn . |
| 12 | They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder . |
| 13 | They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them . |
| 14 | They did not simply speak of the human Jesus of Nazareth and of the relation of persons to him as a human . |
| 15 | They did not simply react in a uniform manner to the experience of heat . |
| 16 | They did not simply see an empty tomb and say : ‘ Coo , he must have risen ! ’ |
| 17 | Yet they did not simply follow the views of the Foreign Office where disillusionment with the USSR was rapidly increasing . |
| 18 | Furthermore , who would guess , if they did not already happen to know , that the huge sum raised by plants was the achievement and gift of one family – the Crawfords ? |
| 19 | But they did not yet feel able to go through with changes in their actual behaviour . |
| 20 | They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies . |
| 21 | A Metropolitan authority said that they did not yet know how much their training allocation from the central training budget would be , as training is organized to coincide with the academic year . |
| 22 | Mrs Priestley said they did not yet know the identity of the donor but she and her husband would like to express their gratitude to the donor 's family . |
| 23 | They did not yet belong to our world and they certainly belonged to no other . |
| 24 | From time to time the authorities got wind of these breaches of regulations and punished clubs , but they did not regularly inspect the books and revelations of extra payments tended to emerge as a result of other inquiries . |
| 25 | Like disrespectful underlings , they did not adequately acknowledge the dominion of their superiors . |
| 26 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 27 | They did not even leave the building . |
| 28 | They recognized that a return to the Carolingian situation , in which , in theory at least , all free men were bound by oaths of loyalty to the crown , was an unrealistic aspiration ; and they did not even succeed in asserting their lordship over all French rear-vassals , on the lines suggested by Suger . |
| 29 | They did not even create a national arm , and such institutions as schools and the courts remained , as in most Islamic states , in the hands of religious leaders . |
| 30 | In four years on French soil they did not even acquire a liking for wine . |