Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have to be outstanding academically , and must show that having served pupillage and completed a limited period of practice in this country they intend subsequently to return to their country of origin , and that the experience of English pupillage and practice will be of significant benefit in establishing a practice in their home country . |
| 2 | When Anglo-American political analysts use this term ‘ civil society ’ , they tend often to refer to the example of contemporary Poland . |
| 3 | Many of these enterprises are controlled by external corporations or by a landed élite that comprises only a small proportion of the population , and while they are responsible for a great deal of environmental degradation they provide little benefit to the majority of the indigenous people . |
| 4 | ‘ They seem more committed to the club than the county which is the way they want it but I have my own opinion on that , ’ said the highly respected Jones . |
| 5 | Rather like pathological ‘ organisation men ’ , they seem so addicted to bureaucracy that they ca n't get enough of it in their day jobs . |
| 6 | Somebody like Meiselas is like that , Gilles Peress ; they do n't work on a story unless they get emotionally connected to it — why bother ? — to them . |
| 7 | Moreover , they become mentally attuned to American tactical doctrines , which are often devised to sell US equipments to the Western Alliance . |
| 8 | Always sleep by the guns , he said , and never let the men dig bolt holes , lest they become too attached to them when the bombs begin to fall . |
| 9 | He says your when a ambulance comes for people who are sick they have the and there 'll be somebody who maybe really seriously ill by the time tha that they ask where to get to such and such a place by the time they 're there sometimes the people dead ! |
| 10 | 24–9– " The Session desires to record in their minutes the following resolution annent the Church question , viz. that they resolve unanimously to adhere to the union of 1900 . |
| 11 | And since senators are elected for 9 years , it is natural that they should keep in close touch with the local councillors who elected them — they do n't want to be completely forgotten . |
| 12 | Monaru was bought in for a course record of 11,500 gns after winning the Carlsberg Selling Hurdle but Pipe had no complaints and said : ‘ People do n't have to run in sellers if they do n't want to . |
| 13 | They 're mostly Northerners , and they do n't want to muck about . |
| 14 | They do n't have to worry about clothes or how they look , if they do n't want to . |
| 15 | They do n't want to but she 's a strong-minded woman and very insistent , and if she telephones after dusk and I 'm not there it will increase the pressure on them . ’ |
| 16 | We 're a dirty stain they do n't want to be reminded of . |
| 17 | They do n't want to be massive . |
| 18 | They do n't want to be massive . |
| 19 | Ten to one you 'll find that they hate the idea but are going along with it because they do n't want to be thought of as the oldest fuddy-duddy parents in town — little knowing that their consent is the only reason why other parents are being unnecessarily liberal . |
| 20 | ‘ Most social workers are women and they do n't want to be threatened , abused or raped . |
| 21 | No one is legally obliged to give credit if they do n't want to . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps they do n't want to be alone . ’ |
| 23 | Girls should not be raped because they do n't want to be raped — not because men wo n't marry them . |
| 24 | ‘ I think a lot of supporters look for that because they all want to be leaders themselves — they want to be the boss , they do n't want to be the tea-boy . ’ |
| 25 | They do n't want to be successful ! |
| 26 | L7 are n't half-arsed rockers , they trample over most of their rivals , they do n't want to be blokes . |
| 27 | They do n't want to be praised and stroked for every little thing , but they do want their work to be noticed and acknowledged every so often — and not just when they screwed something up or forgot it . |
| 28 | Users will not be forced to take up object-oriented features if they do n't want to , but they will be able to can add bits of object-oriented programming as they wish , and insulate existing Cobol programs by making an object out of an existing data structure . |
| 29 | The sales person who puts pressure on customers to buy when they do n't want to will be out of business tomorrow . |
| 30 | You should never be party to making anyone else do anything they do n't want to . |