Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It depends , some of them bigger Vauxhalls see they do n't hold their money . |
| 2 | Gateways do n't do they do n't take their pounds out . |
| 3 | And you just But as we were saying er talking to Janet afterwards there was another little one down at the side , erm mum was getting a bit irate with him , but you see they do n't take anything for the children to do . |
| 4 | See they do n't know it 's to hurt . |
| 5 | Just letting people know that , if he chooses , he could make life very uncomfortable for them , so they 'd better lick his boots had n't they ? ’ |
| 6 | This union made Jack Straw in no doubt , and the Labour Party , that on their election the compulsory element of C C T will be removed , and if they had any ideas they 'd better forget 'em . |
| 7 | They 'd better make their minds up quickly whether he was in charge or not . |
| 8 | ‘ Then they 'd better find his body . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She thought they 'd better have something to drink so she got some sherry , then she was worried because she 's only got those little glasses you know , little tumblers , and she says they 're only for whisky . ’ |
| 10 | Yes , Lord Stradbroke went up there ; and they thought the pub had become unruly , so they thought they 'd better close it . |
| 11 | They 'd better get their act together first . |
| 12 | They 'd better get their act together first . |
| 13 | Unlike advertising , however , they could be excluded from a definition of mass media because by twentieth-century standards they did not spread their messages quickly and simultaneously , nor to audiences that were large in relation to the communities within which they circulated . |
| 14 | One of the TUC 's two great general secretaries , George Woodcock — the other was Walter Citrine — warned them that they would lose influence if they did not reform themselves . |
| 15 | They did not miss them , they confided to Melinda . |
| 16 | In 1979 , about a half of the 830 respondents said that they did not evaluate their bibliographic instruction programmes . |
| 17 | ‘ They did not outclass us . |
| 18 | While policemen freely peddle these cherished beliefs in the lost standards of the ‘ British way of life ’ , they did not invent them . |
| 19 | They did not give their reasons , but Fr Morrow said that they had told him they had carefully studied the Law Lords ' decision to allow feeding tubes to be removed from Mr Bland and felt that they could not serve the summons . |
| 20 | Umpires David Shepherd and John Holder chivvied them several times , but although the players might deny it suited them tactically to keep as many of their batting overs in hand for the next day when better weather was promised , it is difficult to dismiss the thought that the level of fines was so derisory that they did not give it a thought . |
| 21 | It did not seem to hit the kids hard but they did not show their feelings . |
| 22 | Only if they did not show their faces , only if they kept their heads low and lived in obscure corners , could they hope to pass at least in physical safety through life . |
| 23 | If Sussex people were greatly upset by the closure of the monasteries , they did not show it openly thereafter , and the county avoided the troubles of 1536 which affected the north of England . |
| 24 | Their failure was that , because of man 's inhumanity to his fellow beings , they did not fulfil their potential . |
| 25 | The Conservative Party continued the Labour practice of remaining aloof , though never actively criticising attempts at European union as long as they did not threaten what Britain conceived to be its own vital interests . |
| 26 | They did not threaten me personally , but they made it clear that they could kill us all . |
| 27 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 28 | After meeting them , Nez Perce headmen including Lawyer and Timothy dispatched a delegation to St Louis in late summer 1831 to answer claims that ‘ the white man 's religion was better than theirs , and that they would all be lost if they did not embrace it ’ ( Catlin ) . |
| 29 | They did not offer me works of comparable greatness as alternatives , so their objections were hardly a problem . |
| 30 | Alington allowed him and two other canons to introduce the daily sacrament on condition that they did not expect it to be part of the cathedral 's official usage . |