Example sentences of "they [verb] [to-vb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want to rip all the trees down as well they want to make it a little piazza thing do n't they ? |
| 2 | and they are excepting a lump sum from the Government and they 're going to manage themselves and make a going concern of it as a business and any profits they get will go back to that hospital , well the community unit are opting out as well , they 're hoping to opt out , but if Labour get in , they 're gon na do away with all that and they want to undo all the one 's that have opted out , I mean I du n no how the hell they 're gon na do it |
| 3 | He says they are in a long term partnership with our local hospitals and they want to do all they can to support them . |
| 4 | But they want to do all they can for him . |
| 5 | In addition there is a considerable element of curiosity on the part of the little birds — they want to learn all they can about this dreaded enemy while it is , for once , sitting quietly . |
| 6 | Erm they were talking about moving it and everything there was a big fuss about it last week well now there 's a fuss about they want to pull all the trees down around it as well . |
| 7 | When the mistake was discovered , they tried to put all the blame onto the innocent parties — the importers and the farmers — who have been landed with these cattle . |
| 8 | They seemed to dance all the time with their own group of friends or relatives . |
| 9 | Now they seem to lose all interest . |
| 10 | Some areas of study are so hard of definition that they seem to evade all attempts to summarise them . |
| 11 | They seem to possess all the attributes which are essential to life in a community aquarium , being hardy , peaceful and of a suitable size . |
| 12 | Sadly , they manage to combine all the worst qualities of the bedroom-band with none of the saving graces . |
| 13 | By December of the same year they had two similar groups and by March 1988 , three and at this stage they began to meet all together monthly for a celebration . |
| 14 | Do they have to do all your bidding and fetching and carrying and things ? |
| 15 | They decided to assign all these assets to five of their number as Trustees for Sale . |
| 16 | They decided to forget all current trends ( such young band paranoia , the decision to trend hop , often leads to directionless confusion anyway ) and concentrate on keeping their music within the reach of their collective ability . |
| 17 | The classification schemes that have been considered so far are general bibliographic classification schemes in that they attempt to encompass all of knowledge . |
| 18 | They use to sell all the paper and all that business then |
| 19 | They struggled to carry all their gifts and mementoes home . |
| 20 | They struggled to carry all their gifts and mementoes home . |
| 21 | They managed to save all the sick otters and seals on their part of the island , the cost counting can come later . |
| 22 | They managed to rescue all but one of the 40-strong herd . |
| 23 | Rather , they aim to provide all students with the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of their subjects , their analytical skills and their capacity to handle complex issues under time pressure . |
| 24 | They preferred to forget all about the Lady Amelia . |
| 25 | And if they fail to find all your information and recommend something and then you say , Well er invalid son or parents and I need that money then he 's at fault and you can then er take them to court for failing to give you best advice . |
| 26 | all the system was closed there , as Howard said erm it er a bit of a nuisance they had to go all the way round the houses |
| 27 | And as as I say they had to put all the mens name in the hat and pick them out and put up a roster and they had their turn of going down the bread week by week . |
| 28 | It is comparable with the now discredited phonetic method of teaching children to read where they no sooner learned to read by this method than they had to scrap all they had learned and then start all over again and learn to read properly . |
| 29 | Before I installed it , they had to use all the iron they melted , or else waste it . ’ |
| 30 | So they had this girl which they showed er , where they had to break all the bone up under here |