Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other situations where a landlord has a guaranteed right of repossession are : lettings by temporarily absent owner occupiers ; lettings of retirement homes — a letting that enables people to let a home to which they intend to ultimately retire ; lettings by servicemen . |
| 2 | They tend to just tell you whether he 's eaten up his dinner and things like that . |
| 3 | They erm they tend to perhaps have a different attitude if they 've been given company shares , because they 're handled shares er fairly regularly , and that 's a different matter , erm I mean erm are there many people here who have privatized issues ? |
| 4 | While this weekend 's open afternoons ( 2–5pm today and tomorrow ) are aimed at spreading the word about croquet and encouraging people to join in and have fun , potential members , including families , will be welcomed whether they want to simply play for singular enjoyment or to national or international standard . |
| 5 | Several Test players have told Mirror Sport they want to publicly get behind their gutsy team-mate , but fear Big Brother is watching closely and ready to get tough if anyone steps out of line . |
| 6 | Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously . |
| 7 | Although they will gallop around trying to get rid of the bot-fly , they seem to quickly discover that the bot will not follow them into the dense shade of a shelter shed or stable . |
| 8 | Maybe this is the source of their unique appeal ; whatever they may feel as individuals , they manage to continuously channel the music through completely humble observations . |
| 9 | There , they proceeded to genetically engineer all of Earth 's large-brained mammals — primates , dolphins and whales — which the entities then replanted , fully evolved , back on Earth . |
| 10 | Dying inside , she wanted to cry , and if his words did nothing else they did at least stiffen her disintegrating spine . |
| 11 | Quite often these royal summit meetings produced as little as their much-vaunted 20th-century counterparts , but , like them , they did at least keep open channels of communication . |
| 12 | If neither Herbert Wilcox , Michael Balcon nor Victor Saville started off with much in the way of imaginative flair , they did at least know what was required to build successful enterprises . |
| 13 | Although the output reductions are a worry in themselves , they do at least suggest that the industry is not about to start laying down a large supply of surplus whisky that could upset prices in the future . |
| 14 | But , unlike the rest of the rich world 's sheep , they do at least stand on their own four feet without any government support . |
| 15 | But although by themselves they do not take us this far , they do at least point the way . |
| 16 | The following excerpts may not clarify the best form of action should that occur , but they do at least point up some of the dilemmas . |
| 17 | ( I am not arguing that the Americans do not themselves engage in all manner of protectionist devices , but merely note that they do at least have an intrinsic belief in the benefits of Adam Smith 's hidden hand , a view which is not wholly shared on the Continent of Europe . ) |
| 18 | Although the various social sciences take different interests in such matters and differ also on how such an understanding of them can be achieved , they do at least share this common source of data ; that is , what the members of society have produced , and are producing , in the way of artifacts , social groups , institutions , documents of various kinds , systems of conflict and co-operation , records , and so on . |
| 19 | But they do at least survive , and after a period of time will be able to regrow their tails . |
| 20 | Whilst peers may not read everything written in their field , they do at least know who is writing . |
| 21 | Whilst peers may not read everything written in their field , they do at least know who is writing . |
| 22 | But then , tragically , they omitted to actually do it . |
| 23 | Grandparents could not count on natural loyalty : rather ; they had to positively create their roles by winning a child 's affection . |
| 24 | Ah come on , just bloody get on with it , they had to fucking score did n't they ? |
| 25 | Oh they had to fucking swap them so |
| 26 | This stupid Lee at the moment for his exam , he 's meant to have done it by Christmas and he has n't done it for C D T , and he , they had to just choose something erm to make that actually sort of works , so Lee could n't , I mean they did crane 's and things like that and he could n't , the thing he came up with and he 's teacher was a , a go erm , what was it Dave , a goalie stand in his goal |
| 27 | So as the shop , you see , did n't pay the wages , they had to just pay it on the things that were done . |
| 28 | They had to perhaps give up their pots and pans , or they were supposed to . |
| 29 | Since Goneril and Regan can no longer inflict their evil upon Lear while he is absent , they have to eventually turn against each other . |
| 30 | No matter what people say about her character , they have to grudgingly admit that she 's a stunning actress . |