Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 91 | Meanwhile their parents — and wives — turn back to the only resource over which they do have some control , and produce more children : hoping against hope that this one might stay and help with the work on the land , or that one might be lucky enough to get an education and a job sufficiently secure and well-paid to bring security for all the family . |
| 92 | However , such groupings do exist and they do have some effects on , and are affected by , the political practices of the TCC in most countries . |
| 93 | Erm , secondly , we will only be able to do that effectively and this is the point you were making about say , erm , school governors and so on , if people really feel they do have some genuine power , locally , it must be about enabling and empowering local groups to have power and take part within their community . |
| 94 | They do have some support and sympathy from the district council . |
| 95 | I think some stations might do that , but they only do it if , if it 's , if it 's not going to be detrimental to the turn out , in other words they , they have a system , erm for instance they have a duty crew over the weekend , so that at least some can take their families to the seaside if they wanted to , so six will remain around the house er er but they do have some system , but I think the majority of fire stations , there are twenty seven in Suffolk like that , who work on the system of getting there as quickly as they can , and that is the best competition to get there , to get the ride . |
| 96 | and the great big photograph of Queen Victoria but they do have some nice things in , some of the crockery was quite nice |
| 97 | Oh they do have some rubbish . |
| 98 | In some respects they do have some characteristics that are similar to the French ones . |
| 99 | The British in their quiet way think of themselves as the salt of the earth , and quite rightly too , but where matters of culture are concerned they do have this tendency to think that the best things happen abroad and at best can be borrowed from abroad . |
| 100 | because this has happened time and time again and yes they do need more life cover or they do need a PHI policy or a savings plan . |
| 101 | Since I 've recently had my car radio stolen I 'm quite in favour of them not being sold at the car boot sales perhaps somebody would like to returns it to me but erm , the , you know , I 'm er you know they do need some restr , some legislation but I would n't want them to be legislated out of existence . |
| 102 | In expanding on this point they do develop some important arguments concerning the constraints which would face a socialist government attempting to advance an AES ( for instance , the problems of ‘ forcing ’ investment referred to above , and the potential conflicts between such a government and the trade unions , given the need to raise labour productivity in order to develop a tenable trading position for the national economy ) yet ultimately their position tends to a form of defeatism . |
| 103 | How can they live like that ? ’ |
| 104 | Neither of them did want that did you ? |
| 105 | And a lot of them do waste that time . |
| 106 | The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography . |
| 107 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |