Example sentences of "of they [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Note that the whole set unc or the empty set can appear as minimal acceptances , but that if one of them does appear then it is the only minimal acceptance ( i.e. L = K + 1 ) . |
| 3 | Now I suppose some of these ARE useful ( although I 'm not sure which ones ) but I am sure that none of them help develop my ‘ personal , moral and social values ’ as claimed by the school prospectus . |
| 4 | Neither of them did want that did you ? |
| 5 | And when one of them did choose her , she found herself quite unable to talk to him at all . |
| 6 | You got a very good committee , dedicated committee erm who , you see the young trainees were sent to the technical colleges and you see , erm some of them did go on if they graduated to Stanford Hall , but I mean those that went to technical college , we used to have to get the committee to sit in at the examinations . |
| 7 | After parents agreed to use the exchange ( and not all of them did agree ) , they were summoned with their child to an interview by a selection of the members of the local JAC , which had a list of vacancies , and the young person was sent to one of these . |
| 8 | And although some 6,000 of them did fight , either in their own units or occasionally side by side with Afghans , most returned home without incident . |
| 9 | After Dottie 's remark , Charles could n't help thinking that the two of them did look rather intimate . |
| 10 | And although many architects still find it hard to say Charles 's name without curling their lips , most of them do admit that by bringing the whole subject into the public domain , architecture has had a much-needed shot in the arm . |
| 11 | Rather surprisingly , quite a lot of them do make happy and successful marriages — though their wives have to be pretty understanding . |
| 12 | Most of them do feel that they have succeeded in bringing on board the majority of people in a country such as this to support their claims . |
| 13 | Two of them do reach results which appear to conflict with the wording , and for which no good reason can be found other than the one they give themselves : that this was the testator 's intention . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And a lot of them do waste that time . |
| 16 | I think what what what never ceases to amaze me about about people in the flats on benefit , is is how many of them do manage , how many of them never owe a penny . |
| 17 | Most of them most of them do go out to work . |
| 18 | And it 's true , you know , some of them do charge sixpence a week , I 'm hearing . |
| 19 | ‘ Sadly ’ , says Robert , ‘ some of them do get lost during the flight and I never see them again ’ . |
| 20 | I think that would be a great assurance to the people that we employ because many of them do get increments . |
| 21 | Quite honestly a lot of them do turn out to be the customer 's own fault . |
| 22 | However , most of them do need our help in various ways when the going gets rough , and it is their needs that we are mainly examining here . |
| 23 | There are French , Malayan , Indian and Spanish versions too , and some of them do sound good . |
| 24 | Neither of them do write , oh here he goes , he must of been a bit cold . |
| 25 | Even so , if you grit your teeth and sweat it out , most of them do emerge as reasonable human beings . |
| 26 | I know some young women rightly feel that they came out as a result of their own strength — and of course many of them do come out without any youth work involvement . |
| 27 | Each male ‘ wants ’ to be the sole father of the young , but the female ‘ wants ’ both of them to help rear her offspring . |
| 28 | Only 16% planned to spend the lot , half of them to help buy a new home . |
| 29 | But it was said and the barrier was back between them , built of suspicions neither of them dared bring to the surface … though Trent had intended asking her about her grandfather . |