Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel it was an enormous privilege to have known them because they made work such fun . |
| 2 | They did n't preach to her , but they did love each other . |
| 3 | They therefore recommended no structural or behavioural changes , though they did feel that continued monitoring of the industry by the OFT was necessary . |
| 4 | However , they did observe each other 's work . |
| 5 | Er , I ca n't say that I , I , I , I know they did do that yes , but I ca n't say that it er it interfered with us much and I ca n't er , ev ever think of anybody , you know wh sort of talking about it like in any respect . |
| 6 | She said so I said , so they did do that ? |
| 7 | they did offer some postcards yesterday . |
| 8 | Then they did hold all the cards . ’ |
| 9 | There was no sign of any sheep , but they did notice some strange-looking footprints in the earth by the house . |
| 10 | Spending chiefs decided to delay their decision until then , although they did discuss more council spending as well as less . |
| 11 | This booklet was distributed just before met , so in fact er , paragraph two does say at the moment that in our new recommended programme there is n't , well in fact they did agree those recommendations . |
| 12 | Mind you , they did have all the satellite and all that did n't we ? |
| 13 | Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war . |
| 14 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 15 | ‘ As a matter of fact , they did have some news . ’ |
| 16 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 17 | This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council . |
| 18 | S so then the evidence is that they did know each other , begging what know exactly entails , but that 's not in dispute . |
| 19 | In the end , they did get some players and I have said I am pretty satisfied that the England players who went did n't go for money . |
| 20 | They did need more evidence . |
| 21 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 22 | And I felt that they did need some kind of ongoing support . |
| 23 | Once you 'd done a new paragraph like they did like this blah blah blah in here . |
| 24 | When they did employ this form it was , as at the Pantheon , a dome set upon circular walls which did not present great constructional problems ( 127 , 128 and 129 ) . |
| 25 | She was just someone vaguely in the background of his life to whom he was courtesy itself when they did encounter each other . |
| 26 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 27 | But , alternatively , assuming that this was not so , and that the instrument did not cease to be a negotiable instrument , then , in my judgment , from the moment when the draft sent by Sir Richard Temple was cashed by the plaintiffs a trust was created as between Sir Richard Temple and the moneylenders in favour of the former , so that any money which the latter might receive upon the promissory note , if they did receive any , would be held by them in trust for him . … |
| 28 | Kelso were guilty of missing far too many tackles , but they did lose all their back row through injury during the game , and Eric Paxton had to come out of retirement as a replacement . |
| 29 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
| 30 | Well I strange erm accusation yes we will be , we would keep the council tax down if I am that that would be a popular message to give out and so having accepted our below er the guideline figures they did take this into consideration but we have a budget that has elements of growth in industry . |